Reel Injun Quotes

Reel Injun is a TV program that debuted in 1970 . Reel Injun stopped airing in 1970.

It features Catherine Bainbridge, Christina Fon, and Linda Ludwick as producer, Claude Castonguay, and Mona Laviolette in charge of musical score, and Edith Labbe as head of cinematography.

Reel Injun is recorded in English and originally aired in Canada. Each episode of Reel Injun is 85 minutes long. Reel Injun is distributed by Domino Film.

Reel Injun Quotes

• (Charlie Hill) "We're creative natives. And we're -- and we're like the Energizer Bunny. The mightiest nation in the world tried to exterminate us, anglicise us, Christianize us, Americanize us, but we just keep going and going. And I think that Energizer Bunny must be Indian. He's got that little water drum he plays. And I always say, "Next time you have a powwow, have the -- the Energizer Bunny lead the grand entry, and after a few rounds then we can get together and EAT him", because we never waste anything."

• (Chris Eyre) "A rez car is probably like a piece of luggage or something to other people. And you kind of keep it together with tape and with string."

• (Adam Beach) "We'll never be able to change the fantasy of who and what Indians are. That fantasy will always be there. We'll be -- we'll always be on covers of novels saying "Cheyenne Warrior.""

• (John Trudell) "We're too busy trying to protect the idea of a Native American or an Indian; but we're not Indians and we're not Native Americans. We're older than both concepts. We're the people. We're the human beings."

• (Russell Means) "When we watched the Indians getting slaughtered at the end of every movie -- well, my brother would refuse to watch it. Every time that bugle went off and the charge started, my brother; he was a year and a half younger than me; he'd go like this --"
• (Russell Means) "-- and he wouldn't look. He wouldn't watch. And we'd come out of those theaters after the, uh, cavalry had rescued the white people, and all of a sudden we'd hear, "There's those Indians," and we'd start fighting. We had to fight them white kids. Every Saturday we knew we was gonna get in a fight."

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