Identity Politics
Powwow Highway causes the viewer to focus specifically on the identity of the main characters. This occurs because the characters themselves, take immense pride in their heritage, history, and future even it if boils down to the color of their skin. The movie makes it so their race is the main point of the movie and leaves the plot generally in the background. I strongly disliked this movie, not because of the story that the writers wanted to imply, but the way that they conveyed it and focused so strongly on the color of their skin and the former ways of native americans. I know that this was the goal of the movie, but, to me, it seemed overplayed and drawn out and caused me to narrow in primarily on details that were not the complete essence of the movie. Powwow hightway is a different way of looking at this and I think that the identity of people needs to be addressed but it was played out and overdone in this movie.