Stereotypes, Reality and Living Tradition of the Native American Dance












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            * Stereotypes, Reality and Living Tradition of the Native American Dance
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            “Playing cowboys and Indians may have been one of our childhood games”, said Professor Gyö

            that’s absolutely true. What we have to ask ourselves is what we know about the Native Ame
            and which part of this personal knowledge is based on veritable facts. The lecture on Tues
            March in the Faculty of Social Sciences, analysed the historical point of view of all the 

            that society has about the Native American rituals, based on the wrong impressions that we
            from western movies, popular culture stories or partial visions of historical periods.
            <blockquote class="rightfloat"> <p> The lecture analysed the historical point of view of a

            stereotypes that society has about the Native American rituals, based on the wrong impress
            have learned from western movies, popular culture stories or partial visions of historical

            blockquote>
            The professors of the Department of American Studies, Andrew Giarelli and György Tóth, con
            passion in an open public lecture where they opened the eyes of students to the real answe

            question: “Why Do Indians Dance?”
            After centuries of misunderstanding, the Native American culture started to re-emerge agai
            “when the Civil Rights movements were changing the way Americans thought about race and et

            The dance was a good way to represent the lost culture, so Native Americans could return t
            traditions, and also share and bring to the world the opportunity to watch. This way peopl
            the aim of their rituals in the pow-wow circuits, and dance competitions that are still al

            The American Indian pow-wow consists as a well-known event, structured and with specific p
            dancers can participate in different traditional styles while the judges evaluate not only
            also the singers, drum groups and traditional dresses.

            As the professors Giarelli and Tóth explained, there is not only one answer for the main q
            lecture, “like the origins of the pow-wow, the meanings of dancing are many-layered; we ne
            how these meanings are all intertwined. Only this way can we truly appreciate the American

                                                                                                      
                            Queralt Morros Baro is for a semester at the Faculty of Social Sciences in
                            Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona. Interested in literature, culture and s
                            the experience of working abroad.                                         
                                                                                                      
                            proof-reading: Keziah Garratt-Smithson is a second year student currently 
                            studies medieval and early modern history. In her spare time she is a keen
                            meet like minded individuals, whilst having fun and gaining useful work ex