Trashing Geronimo: (Re)winding the Use of Nativeness and Generating an Ante-Anti-Post-natural Critique

This poster presentation explores the 1971 Keep America Beautiful public service announcement widely known as the "Crying Indian PSA." Drawing upon Cynthia Deitering's work on "post-natural landscape," this project theorizes the character as an ante-anti-post-natural figure and explores the implications for environmentalism and colonialism as well as Western thought itself.