I won't lie to you, after viewing the film in class all I could think about was this video I had seen through an NPR interview with a man named Ryan Red Corn, who was quoted as saying "The prevalence of humor in any country is just right here on the surface,"... "All the Indians I know are smiling Indians."

One of my favorite things about this video is its tongue-in-cheek dedication to Edward S. Curtis (a known early 1900s photographer who we have to thank for much of our earlier photos of some very serious looking Indians.) And I believe it pretty much speaks for itself. So here it is:

Also something else I didn't notice the first time was the name "the 1491's"...Hohoh.