American Review Magazine iss13

AN INTERVIEW WITH PATO HOFFMAN:

AN ACTOR TRUE TO HIS MAKE-UP

..."I have particular responsibilities. I'm always
concerned with showing proper respect for the people
I'm playing. I was anxious about learning Cheyenne well
enough to speak it correctly. I had a Cheyenne elder on
the set who was teaching me."
Hoffman feels it was because he was working in another
language that he was able to be so focused on his part
in the scene. Lost in the process, the rest of the "work"
escaped him. "I mean. I forgot about the acting. I was
just there, feeling more than acting Cheyenne. It was all
very rewarding, the process.".........more.......
(issue number 13 back issue available)


Contents: issue number 13
A Native Voice by Woody Kipp (Blackfeet)
Was Jack The Ripper A Bogus Medicineman?
Crystle Wants More Than Hollywood's Stereotypes
The Kiowa Ton-Kohn-Ga Warrior Society
Ours is a Religion of Nature by Roberta Blackgoat
Crazy Horse, Man of Vision by Anne Dunn (Ojibwe)
Xnit Ka'wit - Community Comes Together To
Honour The Giving Of Roots
'His Name Was Joe'
Native American Church To Preserve and
Protect Our Culture
Tribal Right To Unity and Independence
Early Plate Goes Down The River!
A Photographers Vision, an interview with
Jerome De Wolfe (Dakota-Sioux)
Flutes of the Northern Plains
Tewa Kids' Art Straddles Two Cultures
An Actor True to His Make-Up, an interview
with Pato Hoffman (Inca/Aymara)

"We also promise the Indian people all the land in the..."

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