KTLA News: "Native Americans picket television adaptation of Hanta Yo" (1980)

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The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound.

Title: “Native Americans picket television adaptation of Hanta Yo.” Date: April 15, 1980.

Summary: Outside of Warner Bros. Studios, a group of people with picket signs protest the pending television mini-series adaptation of Ruth Beebe Hill's controversial novel Hanta Yo. According to a Los Angeles Times report from April 16, 1980, a coalition of Sioux peoples objected to the proposed TV version on the grounds it would draw additional attention to Hill's novel, which they found offensive and insulting in its depiction of Native peoples and their history.

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Complete Record: The KTLA newsfilm collection at the UCLA Film & Television Archive consists of cut and unedited stories, outtakes and fill footage, originally shot on 16mm reversal film stock with magnetic soundtrack. Some footage, particularly material not used for broadcast, may be without sound. Title: “Native Americans picket television adaptation of Hanta Yo.” Date: April 15, 1980. Summary: Outside of Warner Bros. Studios, a group of people with picket signs protest the pending television mini-series adaptation of Ruth Beebe Hill's controversial novel Hanta Yo. According to a Los Angeles Times report from April 16, 1980, a coalition of Sioux peoples objected to the proposed TV version on the grounds it would draw additional attention to Hill's novel, which they found offensive and insulting in its depiction of Native peoples and their history. Learn more about this UCLA Film & Television Archive project: ucla.in/1SONCuw © 2023 The Regents of the University of California