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THE HOLLYWOOD INDIAN.

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Byline: Bob Keefer The Register-Guard

Hollywood didn't actually create the American Indian, but in some ways it might as well have.

That, at any rate, is the argument of Rennard Strickland, a legal scholar and art collector of Cherokee and Osage heritage who curated ``Marquee Massacres,'' an exhibit of Hollywood movie posters about Indians that opens Friday at the Hult Center's Jacobs Gallery.

In the past century, he argues, Hollywood's Indians have had a profound influence on the lives of real Indians. That's because the movie version has been the main source of information, he says, for the non-Indian lawmakers who have decided the fate of real indigenous people.

Strickland is no stranger to either art or law. He teaches at the University of Oregon School of Law, focusing on Native American law. He collects art and has curated museum exhibits that have traveled the country.

He was co-curator of ``Shared Visions,'' an exhibit of Indian art that originated...

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