Reel Injun (2010) Neil Diamond :88 Lorber Films MEF Sanchez, J. (2012) Newsframes in Americas First Newspapers Chapter 1 “A brief examination of the sole issue of Publick Occurrences shows that a total of thirteen news stories appeared in its few pages. More than half of them (eight) contained references to American Indians, verifiable proof that American Indians have been a part of American newspapers since that mass medium first existed on this continent.” (p11) Sanchez (2012) describes content analysis and framing of each of the eight news stories and then discusses “Bias, Framing and Newspaper Conventions” using research findings. “Some of the news frames that were used to describe American Indians in Publick Occurrences in 1690 can still be found in the American mass media in the twenty-first century. On assessing positive and negative values exhibited toward American Indians in the eight news stories from Publick Occurrences that reference them, it can be seen that they fall within either positive or negative news frames.”(15) Frame 1. Positive Shared Thanksgiving celebration Frame 2. Negative "barbarous" and lurking Frame 3. Negative "butchered" the ship's master and several of the men Frame 4. Positive collaboration of citizens of Albany and New York and members of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Frame 5. Negative Indians "pretend" smallpox at home has prevented promised support of colonists; several prisoners are used in a manner "too barbarous for any English to approve" Frame 6. Negative the people all either "butchered" or "captived" Frame 7. Negative Indians have in revenge "barbarously butchered" forty captives Frame 8. Neutral Indians take some French captives and are now sending a force farther afield, outcome uncertain “This summary reveals that only one of the eight news frames that include American Indians can be considered entirely positive in referencing them. Only one story falls into a neutral category and cannot be considered negative or positive in referencing American Indians. The remaining five of these eight news stories exhibit framing images that are negative or insensitive toward American Indians. Thus, negative imagery makes up the majority of all the news frames referring to American Indians in the first recognized newspaper in America. One other notable ethnocentric perception arose in the newspaper media with the publication of Publick Occurrences: the monolithic images of the good Indian and the bad Indian. From the news stories contained in Publick Occurrences one can see that Indians are considered good Indians when they can be referenced as allies, friendly, and "our" auxiliary Indians. They are considered bad Indians when they go against the status quo in the Boston of 1690” (15) “...these are French Indians, butchers, lurking, lying about having smallpox, undependable, "salvages," abusing French prisoners in a manner "too barbarous for any English to approve"— even though in th.