21.01.2014 - Native Americans1 and Karl May etc. by dali48
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Who are they, the descendants of Native Americans? - The photographer Eric Klemm traveled through North America for a year and sought an answer. - 25000 kilometers by car and plane from Alaska to New Mexico in the American South:
EK photographed the descendants of the native Indians of more than 120 tribes. His portraits speak of deep sadness, but also of hope. For ARTE programs focusing on "the Indian country," ARTE magazine talked to the photographer about his impressions...
ARTE: Mr. Klemm, do you like Karl May?
Eric Klemm: Of course I have read him as a child, and was impressed. When I emigrated to Canada, I suddenly had contact with real Indians. Then I thought back again to Winnetou and Old Shatterhand. But Karl May was a dreamer. - What he wrote was true, perhaps long ago. Today, American Indians are America's Sinti and Roma: they are oppressed and discriminated, with no money, no job, often without native land, homeless...
ARTE: What is the life on the reservation?
EC: Reserves are the saddest places I've ever seen. You need to imagine them like run-down council estates. Governments have taken the land of the Indians with beautiful forests and rivers, and gave them some tiny insignificant area instead, and put on miserable little houses. Indians are very tightly connected to their home country (see e.g. honey-bees etc. - d.48)...
Each tree is important to them. - The reserves have never filled with life, because Indians are miserable there. I once met an old man, who said: "I'd rather live on the streets than on the reservation." - That says it all... (ARTE, 2 / 2010)
Karl Friedrich May war ein deutscher Schriftsteller und einer der produktivsten Autoren von Abenteuerromanen. Er ist einer der meistgelesenen Schriftsteller deutscher Sprache. Die weltweite Auflage seiner Werke wird auf 200 Millionen geschätzt, davon 100 Millionen in Deutschland. Wikipedia
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