Angela Aleiss has been writing about Native American images in Hollywood for more than thirty years. She was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship at UCLA’s Institute of American Cultures / American Indian Studies Center and was a recipient of the Canada-US Fulbright fellowship to study in residence at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Making the White Man’s Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies and Hollywood’s Native Americans: Stories of Identity and Resistance, and she has contributed articles to Indian Country Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and The Los Angeles Times.
