Angela Aleiss has been writing about Native American images in Hollywood for more than thirty years. She was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCLA's Institute of American Cultures / American Indian Studies Center and was a recipient of the Canada-US Fulbright fellowship to study in residence at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies and Hollywood's Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance, and she has contributed articles to Indian Country Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Los Angeles Times.
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"Aleiss's original research sheds new light on the depiction of Native Americans in Broken Arrow, distinguishing fact from fiction and laying bare the film's assimilationist ideological agenda."--John Belton, author of American Cinema / American Culture