Speculative Futures: Indigenous Identity, Art, and Place Essay

This essay delves into the concept of speculative futures, particularly as it relates to indigenous identities portrayed in film and art. It analyzes how movies like Indigo and Four Faces of the Moon utilize sociological and indigenous memories to project futuristic perspectives. The essay also explores how indigenous art forms, such as dance and music, reflect the development of individual identities amidst the influence of colonial ideologies. Furthermore, it discusses the sense of identity and belonging in relation to place, as well as the impact of cultural changes on indigenous communities, highlighting the themes of nostalgia and identity clash. The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of sensory experiences in understanding and expressing indigenous futures.

Running head: SPECULATIVE FUTURES
Speculative Futures
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As show by Dowell (2018), the art of film making has an important role to play in the
overall understanding of the indigenous futurism identities that they wish to portray in the
movies. The movies Indigo, Four Faces of the Moon are few of the movies that transcend time
and show the futuristic perspectives of the society. The use of the sociological and indigenous
memories of the people are an important part of the futuristic indigenous projections. The movies
develop a mesh of plots that intricately develop to show the futuristic identities of the people of
indigenous origins. One of the important perspectives of the people in society are shown in the
movies. The movies tend to explore the ancestral memories in the minds of the people who
belong to the background of the indigenous cultures. The introduction of the new ways in which
the movies can be presented in the article shows the various perspectives and ideas of the futures
of the colonial identities. The representation of the womanhood and correlation of the cultural
identities to the global idea of womanhood affects the ideals of the people in the society. The
overall idea of the indigenous identity presented in the movies go on to show that the people in
the society are affected by the cultural identity and the options of the perceivable futures.
As pointed out by Recollet (2016), the speculative futures of indigenous mindsets also
show in their art forms. The involvement of the individual perspective in the dance and art form
show the development that the individual identities of their art form. The inculcation of gradual
colonist ideologies have often affected the individual mindsets of the colonized but their
indigenous culture propels them to develop a third space of their identities. The way that the
music video shows the indigenous art form also focuses on development ideologies as the future
of the earth can be perceived. the dance take steps from the native American and Indigenous
dances which speculative of the cross cultural differences and mixed identities that the current
generation is facing amidst the conflict of cultures that their going through.the multiple direction

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of the territories will focus on the development of multiple directional cultural identities to focus
on social and cultural identity of the people in the society. The understanding of multiple
direction cultural identities of the indigenous people will focus on their art forms as long as there
changes in it to accommodate it according to the needs of the modern society and audience. The
focus of the song iGlide tend to focus on involving the cultural aspects of the indigenous people
in itself. She is the Boring of the cultural artist speculative the artist can modify it according to
his artistic freedom to shoot the expression that he wants in his work. In context to the previously
discussed movies this song stand important as it shows the futuristic development in the art and
cultural aspects of indigenous values.
In the analysis of the Oak Savannah Myers (2017) tends to argue about the sense of
Identity of the place itself in the mind-set of individuals. A place according to her is an effect of
multiple happenings and actions of individuals and nature coming together to form an identity.
things that have been done and undone Forge the natural entity of the place. It is seen that when a
person perceive savannahs it takes into account tall grasses and wild flowers natural cultural
formations that have taken more than hundred years to bring together What stands before us
today. The perspective shows that the place changes identities according to the people who
decide their. One of the questions post is whether the trees understand that land has been given
and taken in any form. The land and sense of belonging of the people who leave their form a
major part of the uniqueness that a place has. It also questions the thinking of new Darwinian
theories and ecological thinking in anthropological changes that please has undergone. The
Identity of the place is in understanding and sensing how the changes take place with the change
in the human movement and the transfer of culture among the people.

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In the article by Sterwart (2008), the topic which has been shown and defended is known
as the weak theory. The theory alludes to the difference in the composition and the sense of
nostalgia that the people gradually face in the description of the future of the indigenous
individuals and their writings. The tangles up ideals of the action and relation in the cultural
identities have a major effect on the art expression of the people which is shown in the different
aspects. The expression of Vermont as the place which is continuously changing which affected
the idea of the people about the sense of belonging in the place. The situation of not belonging in
a place belonging in it brings about a sense of nostalgia among the people of the indigenous
origins. The flooding of the people and the gradual changes that their culture has under gone
leads to case of the identity clash in the minds of the people. The people have a sense of
dissociated identity which brings bout the sense of nostalgia seen in the poems and the other
literary works. There is no social construction or a place in the movie which describes the way in
which the literature presents them. It is however evident that it transcends the identity that the
people have in the place. One of the major psrts of the dissociation is the sensory movement
from the identities as shown by Myers (2017). The identities of the individual in the form of the
senses they appeal to have a major role to play.
Therefore it is seen that the these articles have a different perspective in the understanding and
explaining the ideals of the indigenous future to the individuals. They focus in the sensory
approach and appeal of the different aspects and their effect on expression.

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References
Dowell, K. L. (2018). DIGITAL SUTURES: Experimental Stop‐Motion Animation as Future
Horizon of Indigenous Cinema. Cultural Anthropology, 33(2), 189-201.
Myers, N. (2017). Becoming sensor in sentient worlds: A more-than-natural history of a black
oak savannah. Between Matter and Method: Encounters In Anthropology and Art, 73.
Recollet, K. (2016). Gesturing Indigenous futurities through the remix. Dance Research
Journal, 48(1), 91-105.
Stewart, K. (2008). Weak theory in an unfinished world. Journal of Folklore Research, 71-82.