Post by Okwes on Sept 15, 2006 11:26:48 GMT -5
Jackson has a part in cable documentary
by lauren soukup
www.countypress.com/stories/091306/loc_20060913012.shtml
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Wayne Jackson of Columbiaville is looking to correct the perspective on
Native American history. He is hoping a History Channel movie he had a
part in will help do just that.
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<http://204.176.34.102/phpadsnew/adclick.php?n=a0049f83> Filming of
"Pursuit of Honor: The Rise of George Washington," is complete and the
documentary is now in the post-production phase and is expected to air
in November on the History Channel.
For Jackson, who has been studying and lecturing about Native American
history for years, the chance to play a part in the film was a thrill.
When a friend asked him to come along and re-enact the French and Indian
war, he jumped at the opportunity.
"For a long time now I have done in house history lectures for the
Cranbrook Institute of Science," Jackson said. "Since then I have
branched out on my own and done high schools and churches and special
interest groups."
Though he is three-quarters Native American, his heritage wasn't always
celebrated, he said.
"I was brought up down south," Jackson, 65, said. "There was a lot of
prejudice and my family tried to pass for white as much as you could.
You didn't mess around with some of the prejudices down south."
He is a Tuscarora, meaning hemp weavers or hemp gatherers.
"Tuscarora people originally were from the area of ... North Carolina,
and we are still there," he said.
In early film portrayals of Native American tribes there were
misconceptions, Jackson said.
"Like when they spoke they just grunted and groaned, and they were
portrayed as pretty ignorant," he said. "Most of us are more than
bilingual. We speak several languages. We were not the ignorant savages
that we were portrayed to be."
In the film the growth of Washington's character is explored.
"George Washington made himself into a man capable of founding the most
powerful nation in the world," said the movie's Web site,
www.paladincom.com.
"It was like a dream come true to be able to do something where I would
have a little bit of control over what was happening and being done and
said," said Jackson.
Filming took nearly 16 months. Jackson took part Mother's Day weekend of
this year.
The movie is slated to air sometime this fall and will be entered at the
prestigious Sundance Film Festival.
For more information, visit www.paladincom.com.
by lauren soukup
www.countypress.com/stories/091306/loc_20060913012.shtml
<http://www.countypress.com/stories/091306/loc_20060913012.shtml>
Wayne Jackson of Columbiaville is looking to correct the perspective on
Native American history. He is hoping a History Channel movie he had a
part in will help do just that.
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<http://204.176.34.102/phpadsnew/adclick.php?n=a0049f83> Filming of
"Pursuit of Honor: The Rise of George Washington," is complete and the
documentary is now in the post-production phase and is expected to air
in November on the History Channel.
For Jackson, who has been studying and lecturing about Native American
history for years, the chance to play a part in the film was a thrill.
When a friend asked him to come along and re-enact the French and Indian
war, he jumped at the opportunity.
"For a long time now I have done in house history lectures for the
Cranbrook Institute of Science," Jackson said. "Since then I have
branched out on my own and done high schools and churches and special
interest groups."
Though he is three-quarters Native American, his heritage wasn't always
celebrated, he said.
"I was brought up down south," Jackson, 65, said. "There was a lot of
prejudice and my family tried to pass for white as much as you could.
You didn't mess around with some of the prejudices down south."
He is a Tuscarora, meaning hemp weavers or hemp gatherers.
"Tuscarora people originally were from the area of ... North Carolina,
and we are still there," he said.
In early film portrayals of Native American tribes there were
misconceptions, Jackson said.
"Like when they spoke they just grunted and groaned, and they were
portrayed as pretty ignorant," he said. "Most of us are more than
bilingual. We speak several languages. We were not the ignorant savages
that we were portrayed to be."
In the film the growth of Washington's character is explored.
"George Washington made himself into a man capable of founding the most
powerful nation in the world," said the movie's Web site,
www.paladincom.com.
"It was like a dream come true to be able to do something where I would
have a little bit of control over what was happening and being done and
said," said Jackson.
Filming took nearly 16 months. Jackson took part Mother's Day weekend of
this year.
The movie is slated to air sometime this fall and will be entered at the
prestigious Sundance Film Festival.
For more information, visit www.paladincom.com.