ABSTRACT
There are real dangers in recent representations of indigenous peoples in popular discourse, especially in the media, which stress claims to an ‘authentic’ voice. For these claims may be a form of overwriting the complex actuality of difference equal but opposite to the more overt writing out of that voice in earlier oppressive discourses of reportage; in fact it may well be the same process at work, and the result may be just as crippling to the efforts of indigenous peoples to evolve an effective strategy of recuperation and resistance.
