His chauffeur wears a coyote headdress, and occasionally gives the camera cunning glances. Shepherding the film as a sage narrator, King sits comfortably in the backseat of a vintage taxi cab, gazing knowingly at stolen land now known as Toronto. Unearthing contemporary Indigenous culture with a tender reverence, “Inconvenient Indian” urgently reframes an ugly narrative we’ve been fed for far too long. As King offers: “History is a story we tell about the past,” and Latimer understands filmmaking is a powerful storytelling tool. Our guide is writer and Native rights activist Thomas King, whose 2012 book “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America” has been given an absorbing screen treatment by Indigenous Canadian filmmaker Michelle Latimer. “You have to be careful of the stories you tell, and you have to watch out for the stories you are told,” goes the meditative opening voiceover of “ Inconvenient Indian,” an evocative and visually ripe love poem to Canadian Indigenous culture.
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