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me on the edge of my seat. Some
thing about seeing people race cars
at high speeds down the crowded
streets of Europe while shooting
bazookas is really cool.
So should you go see Ronin?
The answer is yes. I know that I
don't really paint the best picture
of the movie here, but it is personal
bias that made the film less than
what it could have been for me.
Had I not gone in carrying unnec
essary baggage, I would have prob
ably liked the film a lot more than
I did. Sure, there are holes in the
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have those? So go to Ronin, and
decide for yourself
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cultural heritage and religious be
liefs.
In 1978, the U.S. government
supposedly
granted Native
Americans free
dom of religion.
However, be
cause sweet
grass, tobacco,
sage, cedar, and
spiritual objects
such as feathers
are banned from
prisons, freedom
does not extend
"I don't expect Quak
ers to wear big black hats
and shoes with buckles...
so don't expect Native
Americans to wear feath
ers in their hair and
leather thongs."
—Daphine Strickland
to Native Americans in jail. to Raleigh and saw bathrooms for
This pow-wow, the first ever "white" and "colored" and didn't
to be held in a United States
prison, was an attempt to allow
these women to practice some of
their spiritual rituals, even in jail.
This is a large step forward
, for a state
whose school
system did not
recognize chil
dren as any
thing more than
"black," "white,"
and "other" un
til 1975.
Strickland
recalls her first
pangs of racism,
when she went
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know which to use.
Although the government
now acknowledges the existence of
Native Americans in North Caro
lina, a stereotypical image still
prevails of what a Native Ameri
can should be.
"I don't expect Quakers to
wear big black hats and shoes with
buckles," says Strickland, "so don't
expect Native Americans to wear
feathers in their hair and leather
thongs."
Strickland sees a need for
Native Americans to look equally
toward their past and future. "Na
tive Americans are not in time
warp. We need to progress, but
we also need to take time to honor
the pow-wow."