We shall walk out
KUED-TV's ambitious documentary We Shall Remain: The Paiute isn't getting universal acclaim from the tribe it chronicles. About a quarter of the Paiute audience of 150 walked out of a special screening in Cedar City.Tribe chairwoman Jeanine Borchardt says some tribal elders were offended that the film didn't give equal treatment to the tribe's bands.
Because it didn't cover all the Paiute Bands, like the Koosharem and Kanosh, they got up and walked out saying it wasn't worth seeing. It showed a smidge of the Indian Peaks Band but since not all of the Bands were highlighted, some were disappointed.Beginning Monday, KUED will feature five Utah tribes in documentaries as part of a larger project produced by American Experience.
As for me, I liked it.
The series comes at an interesting time, amid a controversy over plans to build a transit station on the site of an American Indian archeological site in Draper. Ute, Navajo and Goshute tribal leaders are calling on Gov. Jon Huntsman to protect the site from destruction.
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Glen, it looks like there are discrepancies in the reporting done by The Spectrum. Many who attending state that the "walk out" occurred after the screening when they were showing behind the scenes footage. Perhaps you should check on your sources.
Glen:
The poor reporting of the Spectrum should not find its way into the good pages (electronic or otherwise) of the Tribune.
The basis of the Spectrum story is a reporter, apparently too limited in ability to ask people why they are leaving, choosing to talk to someone who talked to someone who THINKS an unnamed person may have been upset. Nancy would have you in chains if you offered such bogus reportage. There was no protest. There was no walkout.
Reporting issues aside, it is noteworthy that the We Shall Remain project occurred because Utah tribes/bands were left out of the greater American Experience project to begin with.
It is a beautiful, well done documentary and I think you have really misrepresented the efforts producers and others made to acknowledge the diverse cultures and histories within Utah's Native American community. I was proud to be a part of it, even in a very small way.
I enjoyed a couple of previews, is this going to be available to me, like in California?
Somehow I would like to acquire the dvd, how is that done?
You'll be abl to get the dvd at their next fund drive, for a pledge of something like well over a hundred bucks...
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