Native Americans Are Boycotting ‘Avatar 2’ and James Cameron

Not everyone wants to go back to Pandora. According to the the timesmany Native American groups in protest release James Cameron‘s symbol picture The sequel via re-emerged comments from the director. in a 2010Cameron campaigned against the construction of the giant Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in the Amazon and talked about how he was inspired to write symbol picture Learning from the indigenous people. “I felt like I was 130 years in the past watching what the Lakota Sioux would have said at a time when they were pushed and killed and asked for displacement and were receiving some form of compensation,” Cameron said in resurfacing comments from Watchman. “This was a driving force for me in writing symbol picture – I can’t help but think about it if they are [the Lakota Sioux] They had a window of time and they could see the future…and they could see their children commit suicide with one of the highest suicide rates in the country…because they were desperate and it was a dead-end society—which is what’s happening now—they would have fought harder.”

Indigenous leaders such as Ui Begay were offended by Cameron’s comments about the Sioux Nation and called for a boycott of the film. Joanna Brewer, Professor of Smith College, …