What are the policy and cultural relations implications of inaccurate and constructed images?
On Friday February 4th 2011, Vancouver Island University professor Keith Smith gave a talk called “On Black Hawks, Pontiacs, and Crazy Horse Malt Liquor” about the policy and cultural relations implications of “constructed images‟.
Smith raises questions such as: Where do the images of Indigenous people come from that news media and advertisers offer up so regularly? Does it matter if these images do not accurately reflect the reality of the First Nations students and staff, for example, who study and work at Vancouver Island University?
We spoke with university-college professor Keith Smith about his presentation and his assertion that “inaccurate imaginings of Indigenous people affect popular perceptions” in a rebroadcast from February 3, 2011 on Indigenous images & imaginings.
