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‘Slash/Back’ Review: Indigenous Cultural Representation, Horror & Alien Invasion Is A Great, Thoughtful Mix [SXSW]

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The settlement of North America is intricately linked with the abuse, conquer, and genocide of the Indigenous people. Not only were these First Nations stripped of their lands, but their individual mythologies, cultures, and languages were eradicated via this settlement, stolen children, and abuses in the reservation and residential school systems.

Of course, these myriad atrocities are impossible to list within a movie review, but one of the worst offenses of the North American frontier myth was to strip the North American Native people of their symbolic individuality — lumping hundreds and thousands of unique people and nations into one massive, enemy — the ultimate bad guy in the most popular U.S.

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