PAKET UMROH BULAN FEBRUARI MARET APRIL MEI 2018

Ada Enam Hal aneh ini dapat meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh secara cepat

Saco-Indonesia.com - Kekebalan tubuh adalah hal yang penting untuk kesehatan Anda. Zat anti oksidan dan vitamin C adalah suplemen yang bermanfaat untuk peningkatan sistem kekebalan tubuh.

Namun nyatanya selain kedua hal tersebut, ada cara unik lain yang bermanfaat untuk peningkatan sistem kekebalan tubuh seperti yang telah dilansir dari care2.com berikut.

Berciuman
Walaupun terdengar lucu, namun berciuman dapat membantu meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh Anda secara alami. Selain berciuman, berhubungan seks dengan pasangan juga dapat meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh Anda sebab saat berhubungan seks tubuh memproduksi immunoglobulin, protein yang bermanfaat untuk sistem kekebalan tubuh.

Mendengarkan musik
Penelitian menunjukkan bahwa saat Anda mendengarkan musik, hormon yang dapat meminimalisir rasa sakit dilepaskan sehingga tubuh Anda menjadi lebih kuat.

Berjalan cepat namun jangan berlari
Sebuah penelitian juga mengungkapkan bahwa berjalan cepat namun tidak berlari selama 45 menit sehari dapat meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh Anda.

Menghangatkan tubuh
Banyak cara yang dapat Anda lalukan untuk menghangatkan tubuh seperti meminum banyak air putih hangat atau melakukan sauna. Hal seperti ini bermanfaat untuk proses detoksifikasi di dalam tubuh sehingga tubuh pun jadi lebih sehat.

Hindari udara yang lembab
udara yang terlalu kering dapat berakibat buruk terhadap kesehatan Anda. Udara yang lembab membuat kuman dan virus penyebab penyakit mudah berkembang biak.

Meminum kopi
Kopi adalah salah satu jenis minuman hangat yang dapat membantu Anda mengeluarkan virus dari dalam tubuh penyebab penyakit. Anda bukan pecinta kopi? Anda dapat menggantinya dengan segelas air hangat.

Anda memerlukan bantuan untuk meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh? Mungkin Anda dapat mencoba 6 hal di atas.

Editor : Maulana Lee

Sumber:Merdeka.com

TANGKAP PEGAWAI PAJAK, KPK SITA RP 2,3 MILIAR

JAKARTA, Saco-Indonesia.com - Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi menyita uang 300.000 dollar Singapura atau sekitar Rp 2,3 miliar (kurs Rp 7.800) dalam operasi tangkap tangan pegawai pajak di halaman terminal III Bandara Soekarno Hatta, Tangerang, Rabu (15/5/2013). Uang tersebut diduga diberikan seorang pegawai perusahaan baja berinisial E untuk dua pemeriksa pajak berinisial MDI dan ED melalui seorang kurir berinisial T.

Juru Bicara KPK Johan Budi menuturkan, pada Selasa (14/5/2013) malam, pegawai pajak MDI membawa mobil Avanza ke halaman terminal III Bandara Soetta. Kemudian, lanjut Johan, kunci Avanza itu diserahkan kepada seseorang berinisial T yang diduga sebagai kurir. "Setelah itu mereka pergi. Kami juga menduga setelah kunci diserahkan oleh kurir, dimasukkan uang 300 ribu dollar Singapura," kata Johan.

Pada Rabu, menurut Johan, MDI bersama rekannya pegawai pajak ED kembali ke halaman Terminal III Bandara Soetta tersebut untuk mengambil uang. "Di sana juga sudah ada T dan ada uangnya, lalu kita tangkap," ungkap Johan. Dugaan sementara, uang ini diberikan untuk menyelesaikan persoalan pajak perusahaan baja The MS, tempat E bekerja.

Kini, baik E, MDI, ED, dan T, diamankan di Gedung KPK, Kuningan, Jakarta untuk diperiksa lebih jauh dan ditentukan status hukumnya.

Ada 5 Alasan, Anda Harus Bersepeda

Saco-Indonesia.com — Mungkin saat ini, lari, baik joging maupun maraton, tengah menjadi olahraga yang digandrungi banyak orang. Tak masalah sih untuk ikut melakukan olahraga ini. Tetapi, jika Anda bukan tipe orang yang kuat lari jauh, coba saja olahraga yang lain, salah satunya bersepeda. Sama seperti lari, bersepeda juga punya manfaat kesehatan untuk tubuh Anda kok. Berikut beberapa alasan Anda harus menjajal olahraga ini.

1. Menguatkan kaki
Saat bersepeda, kaki pasti lebih banyak berperan. Dengan olahraga ini, Anda bisa membentuk otot kaki, paha, dan perut sekaligus. Kekuatan otot tubuh ini juga akan memengaruhi kekuatan jantung Anda.

2. Membuat wajah lebih cerah
Bersepeda juga punya manfaat untuk kulit Anda, lho. Dengan bersepeda, sirkulasi darah dan metabolisme akan berjalan lancar. Ini berarti sirkulasi oksigen dan nutrisi yang dikirim ke sel kulit akan berjalan lebih cepat. Akibatnya, wajah akan terlihat lebih bersinar dan segar. Tak cuma itu, bersepeda juga akan membantu pelepasan endorfin yang bisa membuat Anda jadi lebih tenang dan santai.

3. Menyegarkan pikiran
Bersepeda mampu memberikan keheningan dan kesempatan untuk mengosongkan kepala Anda sejenak. Apalagi yang lebih menenangkan selain bersepeda santai sambil menghirup udara segar dan berjemur di bawah hangatnya sinar matahari?

4. Membuat awet muda
Sebuah penelitian yang dilakukan oleh King College, London, menemukan bahwa orang yang gemar bersepeda ternyata bisa terlihat tetap awet muda. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap pasangan kembar identik dan membagi mereka ke dalam dua kelompok, rutin bersepeda dan tidak bersepeda.

Hasilnya, orang yang rutin bersepeda tiga kali seminggu selama 45 menit terbukti terlihat lebih muda sembilan tahun secara biologis dibandingkan dengan kembarannya yang tak berolahraga.

5. Siapa tahu bertemu jodoh?
Olahraga ini biasanya lebih diminati pria daripada perempuan. Rasio pesepeda pria dan perempuan berkisar 3:1. Nah, siapa tahu Anda bertemu dengan teman baru atau bahkan calon pasangan di komunitas bersepeda yang Anda ikuti. Menyenangkan, kan?

Sumber: Female First/http://female.kompas.com/read/2013/05/31/16001658/5.Alasan.Anda.Harus.Bersepeda

BANDAR NARKOBA TUSUK POLISI

saco-indonesia.com, Dua anggota Serse Narkoba Polresta Tasikmalaya ambruk ditusuk oleh pengedar ganja, saat dalam melakukan penangkapan di rumahnya di Kampung Gandok, Desa Margamulya, Kabupaten Tasikmalaya.

Kedua polisi yang sedang menyamar masing masing Brigadir Wawan dan Aiptu Hilman masih harus menjalani perawan di RSID Tasikmalaya.

Aksi penusukan yang diakhir dengan penembakan itu sontak telah membuat kaget warga setempat. Dalam tempo singkat warga pun telah berkerumum d lokasi kejadian. “ Kami juga kaget dan terbangun saat mendengar tembakan,“ kata seorang warga.

Keteranga seorang petugas UGD Rumah sakit korban Hilman telah mengalami luka sabetan dan tusukan senjata tajam di dahi, dan kepala bagian belakang. Sedang Wawan telah mengalami luka sayatan di lengan kanan.

“Kedua polisi tersebut ditusuk saat menyamar. Sial kedua bandar incarannya Dadeng dan Iman telah melawan dan menusuk kedua korban.

Ijang yang berusia 40 tahun , seorang warga menjelaskan, kedua polisi telah berhasil menangkap kedua tersangka saat bertramsaksi di rumahnya. Pagi itu seorang bandar diborgol dan satunya belum.

“ Bandar yang belum diborgol telah melawan dan menusuk menggunakan pisau,“ ucapnya saat dihubungi melalui selulernya.

Dalam kondisi luka, kedua polisi lanjut Injang, masih melawan. Pistol yang diselipkan di pinggang kemudian dua timah diledakan tepat di kaki seorang bandar Iman. “ Bandar Dadeng telah berhasil kabur dan masih diburu polisi,“ ujar Ijang yang menyaksilkan drama penusukan tersebut.

Seorang anggota polisi Polresta Tasikmlaya saat dihubungi menjelaskan kedua anggota yang ditusuk bandar ganja kondisinya sudah mulai membaik.

Bandar yang ditembak kini juga sudah diamankan dan dijebloskan ke kamar tahanan

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

WARGA KEDIRI TERJATUH SAAT BERSIHKAN RUMAH

saco-indonesia.com, Hari kelima pasca-erupsi Gunung Kelud, selasa (18/2), aktivitas di Kota Kediri telah berangsur-angsur pulih. Sebagian warga juga telah terlihat membersihkan pasir yang menutupi tempat tinggal mereka.

Saat sedang bersih-bersih rumah, banyak warga yang telah terjatuh dan mengalami luka, hingga harus dilarikan ke rumah sakit.

"Sejak hari sabtu itu total ada 88 orang, yang telah dirawat di rumah sakit Gambiran, karena terjatuh saat memperbaiki rumah," kata Humas RS Gambiran Nitra, saat dikonfirmasi, Selasa (18/2).

Nitra mengatakan, sebagian besar warga yang terjatuh mengalami patah tulang dan luka-luka lecet. Sehingga harus dirawat intensif di Rumah Sakit.

"Sebagian sudah dipulangkan yang lecet-lecet. Sementara yang patah tulang masih dirawat, selama beberapa hari," ucapnya.

Sementara itu, untuk biaya rumah sakit, Nitra juga menjelaskan, hingga saat ini masih ditanggung oleh korban. Belum ada bantuan biaya medis dari pemerintah daerah maupun pusat.

"Pemerintah belum kasih instruksi kalau biaya ditanggung oleh pemkab. Sementara masih dari warga sendiri yang membayar," tandasnya.

Editor : Dian Sukmawati

Gene Fullmer, a Brawling Middleweight Champion, Dies at 83

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Verne Gagne, Wrestler Who Grappled Through Two Eras, Dies at 89

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Dean Skelos, Albany Senate Leader, Aided Son at All Costs, U.S. Says

Over the last five years or so, it seemed there was little that Dean G. Skelos, the majority leader of the New York Senate, would not do for his son.

He pressed a powerful real estate executive to provide commissions to his son, a 32-year-old title insurance salesman, according to a federal criminal complaint. He helped get him a job at an environmental company and employed his influence to help the company get government work. He used his office to push natural gas drilling regulations that would have increased his son’s commissions.

He even tried to direct part of a $5.4 billion state budget windfall to fund government contracts that the company was seeking. And when the company was close to securing a storm-water contract from Nassau County, the senator, through an intermediary, pressured the company to pay his son more — or risk having the senator subvert the bid.

The criminal complaint, unsealed on Monday, lays out corruption charges against Senator Skelos and his son, Adam B. Skelos, the latest scandal to seize Albany, and potentially alter its power structure.

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The repeated and diverse efforts by Senator Skelos, a Long Island Republican, to use what prosecutors said was his political influence to find work, or at least income, for his son could send both men to federal prison. If they are convicted of all six charges against them, they face up to 20 years in prison for each of four of the six counts and up to 10 years for the remaining two.

Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, of Long Island, who serves as chairman of the Republican conference, emerged from a closed-door meeting Monday night to say that conference members agreed that Mr. Skelos should be benefited the “presumption of innocence,” and would stay in his leadership role.

“The leader has indicated he would like to remain as leader,” said Mr. LaValle, “and he has the support of the conference.” The case against Mr. Skelos and his son grew out of a broader inquiry into political corruption by the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, that has already changed the face of the state capital. It is based in part, according to the six-count complaint, on conversations secretly recorded by one of two cooperating witnesses, and wiretaps on the cellphones of the senator and his son. Those recordings revealed that both men were concerned about electronic surveillance, and illustrated the son’s unsuccessful efforts to thwart it.

Adam Skelos took to using a “burner” phone, the complaint says, and told his father he wanted them to speak through a FaceTime video call in an apparent effort to avoid detection. They also used coded language at times.

At one point, Adam Skelos was recorded telling a Senate staff member of his frustration in not being able to speak openly to his father on the phone, noting that he could not “just send smoke signals or a little pigeon” carrying a message.

The 43-page complaint, sworn out by Paul M. Takla, a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, outlines a five-year scheme to “monetize” the senator’s official position; it also lays bare the extent to which a father sought to use his position to help his son.

The charges accuse the two men of extorting payments through a real estate developer, Glenwood Management, based on Long Island, and the environmental company, AbTech Industries, in Scottsdale, Ariz., with the expectation that the money paid to Adam Skelos — nearly $220,000 in total — would influence his father’s actions.

Glenwood, one of the state’s most prolific campaign donors, had ties to AbTech through investments in the environmental firm’s parent company by Glenwood’s founding family and a senior executive.

The accusations in the complaint portray Senator Skelos as a man who, when it came to his son, was not shy about twisting arms, even in situations that might give other arm-twisters pause.

Seeking to help his son, Senator Skelos turned to the executive at Glenwood, which develops rental apartments in New York City and has much at stake when it comes to real estate legislation in Albany. The senator urged him to direct business to his son, who sold title insurance.

After much prodding, the executive, Charles C. Dorego, engineered a $20,000 payment to Adam Skelos from a title insurance company even though he did no work for the money. But far more lucrative was a consultant position that Mr. Dorego arranged for Adam Skelos at AbTech, which seeks government contracts to treat storm water. (Mr. Dorego is not identified by name in the complaint, but referred to only as CW-1, for Cooperating Witness 1.)

Senator Skelos appeared to take an active interest in his son’s new line of work. Adam Skelos sent him several drafts of his consulting agreement with AbTech, the complaint says, as well as the final deal that was struck.

“Mazel tov,” his father replied.

Senator Skelos sent relevant news articles to his son, including one about a sewage leak near Albany. When AbTech wanted to seek government contracts after Hurricane Sandy, the senator got on a conference call with his son and an AbTech executive, Bjornulf White, and offered advice. (Like Mr. Dorego, Mr. White is not named in the complaint, but referred to as CW-2.)

The assistance paid off: With the senator’s help, AbTech secured a contract worth up to $12 million from Nassau County, a big break for a struggling small business.

But the money was slow to materialize. The senator expressed impatience with county officials.

Adam Skelos, in a phone call with Mr. White in late December, suggested that his father would seek to punish the county. “I tell you this, the state is not going to do a [expletive] thing for the county,” he said.

Three days later, Senator Skelos pressed his case with the Nassau County executive, Edward P. Mangano, a fellow Republican. “Somebody feels like they’re just getting jerked around the last two years,” the senator said, referring to his son in what the complaint described as “coded language.”

The next day, the senator pursued the matter, as he and Mr. Mangano attended a wake for a slain New York City police officer. Senator Skelos then reassured his son, who called him while he was still at the wake. “All claims that are in will be taken care of,” the senator said.

AbTech’s fortunes appeared to weigh on his son. At one point in January, Adam Skelos told his father that if the company did not succeed, he would “lose the ability to pay for things.”

Making matters worse, in recent months, Senator Skelos and his son appeared to grow wary about who was watching them. In addition to making calls on the burner phone, Adam Skelos said he used the FaceTime video calling “because that doesn’t show up on the phone bill,” as he told Mr. White.

In late February, Adam Skelos arranged a pair of meetings between Mr. White and state senators; AbTech needed to win state legislation that would allow its contract to move beyond its initial stages. But Senator Skelos deemed the plan too risky and caused one of the meetings to be canceled.

In another recorded call, Adam Skelos, promising to be “very, very vague” on the phone, urged his father to allow the meeting. The senator offered a warning. “Right now we are in dangerous times, Adam,” he told him.

A month later, in another phone call that was recorded by the authorities, Adam Skelos complained that his father could not give him “real advice” about AbTech while the two men were speaking over the telephone.

“You can’t talk normally,” he told his father, “because it’s like [expletive] Preet Bharara is listening to every [expletive] phone call. It’s just [expletive] frustrating.”

“It is,” his father agreed.

William Sokolin, Wine Seller Who Broke Famed Bottle, Dies at 85

The bottle Mr. Sokolin famously broke was a 1787 Château Margaux, which was said to have belonged to Thomas Jefferson. Mr. Sokolin had been hoping to sell it for $519,750.

Top News China’s Intents Are Questioned as It Builds in Antarctica

HOBART, Tasmania — Few places seem out of reach for China’s leader, Xi Jinping, who has traveled from European capitals to obscure Pacific and Caribbean islands in pursuit of his nation’s strategic interests.

So perhaps it was not surprising when he turned up last fall in this city on the edge of the Southern Ocean to put down a long-distance marker in another faraway region, Antarctica, 2,000 miles south of this Australian port.

Standing on the deck of an icebreaker that ferries Chinese scientists from this last stop before the frozen continent, Mr. Xi pledged that China would continue to expand in one of the few places on earth that remain unexploited by humans.

He signed a five-year accord with the Australian government that allows Chinese vessels and, in the future, aircraft to resupply for fuel and food before heading south. That will help secure easier access to a region that is believed to have vast oil and mineral resources; huge quantities of high-protein sea life; and for times of possible future dire need, fresh water contained in icebergs.

It was not until 1985, about seven decades after Robert Scott and Roald Amundsen raced to the South Pole, that a team representing Beijing hoisted the Chinese flag over the nation’s first Antarctic research base, the Great Wall Station on King George Island.

But now China seems determined to catch up. As it has bolstered spending on Antarctic research, and as the early explorers, especially the United States and Australia, confront stagnant budgets, there is growing concern about its intentions.

China’s operations on the continent — it opened its fourth research station last year, chose a site for a fifth, and is investing in a second icebreaker and new ice-capable planes and helicopters — are already the fastest growing of the 52 signatories to the Antarctic Treaty. That gentlemen’s agreement reached in 1959 bans military activity on the continent and aims to preserve it as one of the world’s last wildernesses; a related pact prohibits mining.

But Mr. Xi’s visit was another sign that China is positioning itself to take advantage of the continent’s resource potential when the treaty expires in 2048 — or in the event that it is ripped up before, Chinese and Australian experts say.

“So far, our research is natural-science based, but we know there is more and more concern about resource security,” said Yang Huigen, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, who accompanied Mr. Xi last November on his visit to Hobart and stood with him on the icebreaker, Xue Long, or Snow Dragon.

With that in mind, the polar institute recently opened a new division devoted to the study of resources, law, geopolitics and governance in Antarctica and the Arctic, Mr. Yang said.

Australia, a strategic ally of the United States that has strong economic relations with China, is watching China’s buildup in the Antarctic with a mix of gratitude — China’s presence offers support for Australia’s Antarctic science program, which is short of cash — and wariness.

“We should have no illusions about the deeper agenda — one that has not even been agreed to by Chinese scientists but is driven by Xi, and most likely his successors,” said Peter Jennings, executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and a former senior official in the Australian Department of Defense.

“This is part of a broader pattern of a mercantilist approach all around the world,” Mr. Jennings added. “A big driver of Chinese policy is to secure long-term energy supply and food supply.”

That approach was evident last month when a large Chinese agriculture enterprise announced an expansion of its fishing operations around Antarctica to catch more krill — small, protein-rich crustaceans that are abundant in Antarctic waters.

“The Antarctic is a treasure house for all human beings, and China should go there and share,” Liu Shenli, the chairman of the China National Agricultural Development Group, told China Daily, a state-owned newspaper. China would aim to fish up to two million tons of krill a year, he said, a substantial increase from what it currently harvests.

Because sovereignty over Antarctica is unclear, nations have sought to strengthen their claims over the ice-covered land by building research bases and naming geographic features. China’s fifth station will put it within reach of the six American facilities, and ahead of Australia’s three.

Chinese mappers have also given Chinese names to more than 300 sites, compared with the thousands of locations on the continent with English names.

In the unspoken competition for Antarctica’s future, scientific achievement can also translate into influence. Chinese scientists are driving to be the first to drill and recover an ice core containing tiny air bubbles that provide a record of climate change stretching as far back as 1.5 million years. It is an expensive and delicate effort at which others, including the European Union and Australia, have failed.

In a breakthrough a decade ago, European scientists extracted an ice core nearly two miles long that revealed 800,000 years of climate history. But finding an ice core going back further would allow scientists to examine a change in the earth’s climate cycles believed to have occurred 900,000 to 1.2 million years ago.

China is betting it has found the best location to drill, at an area called Dome A, or Dome Argus, the highest point on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Though it is considered one of the coldest places on the planet, with temperatures of 130 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, a Chinese expedition explored the area in 2005 and established a research station in 2009.

“The international community has drilled in lots of places, but no luck so far,” said Xiao Cunde, a member of the first party to reach the site and the deputy director of the Institute for Climate Change at the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences. “We think at Dome A we will have a straight shot at the one-million-year ice core.”

Mr. Xiao said China had already begun drilling and hoped to find what scientists are looking for in four to five years.

To support its Antarctic aspirations, China is building a sophisticated $300 million icebreaker that is expected to be ready in a few years, said Xia Limin, deputy director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration in Beijing. It has also bought a high-tech fixed-wing aircraft, outfitted in the United States, for taking sensitive scientific soundings from the ice.

China has chosen the site for its fifth research station at Inexpressible Island, named by a group of British explorers who were stranded at the desolate site in 1912 and survived the winter by excavating a small ice cave.

Mr. Xia said the inhospitable spot was ideal because China did not have a presence in that part of Antarctica, and because the rocky site did not have much snow, making it relatively cheap to build there.

Anne-Marie Brady, a professor of political science at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the author of a soon-to-be-released book, “China as a Polar Great Power,” said Chinese scientists also believed they had a good chance of finding mineral and energy resources near the site.

“China is playing a long game in Antarctica and keeping other states guessing about its true intentions and interests are part of its poker hand,” she said. But she noted that China’s interest in finding minerals was presented “loud and clear to domestic audiences” as the main reason it was investing in Antarctica.

Because commercial drilling is banned, estimates of energy and mineral resources in Antarctica rely on remote sensing data and comparisons with similar geological environments elsewhere, said Millard F. Coffin, executive director of the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies in Hobart.

But the difficulty of extraction in such severe conditions and uncertainty about future commodity prices make it unlikely that China or any country would defy the ban on mining anytime soon.

Tourism, however, is already booming. Travelers from China are still a relatively small contingent in the Antarctic compared with the more than 13,000 Americans who visited in 2013, and as yet there are no licensed Chinese tour operators.

But that is about to change, said Anthony Bergin, deputy director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. “I understand very soon there will be Chinese tourists on Chinese vessels with all-Chinese crew in the Antarctic,” he said.

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Todd Heisler/The New York Times

Children playing last week in Sandtown-Winchester, the Baltimore neighborhood where Freddie Gray was raised. One young resident called it “a tough community.”

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Calvin Peete, 71, a Racial Pioneer on the PGA Tour, Is Dead

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Review: ‘Frontline’ Looks at Missteps During the Ebola Outbreak

y NEIL GENZLINGER

Frontline

Frontline An installment of this PBS program looks at the effects of Ebola on Liberia and other countries, as well as the origins of the outbreak.

The program traces the outbreak to its origin, thought to be a tree full of bats in Guinea.

Dave Goldberg, Head of Web Survey Company and Half of a Silicon Valley Power Couple, Dies at 47

By VINDU GOEL and QUENTIN HARDY

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Dave Goldberg Was Lifelong Women’s Advocate

Native American Actors Work to Overcome a Long-Documented Bias

Late in April, after Native American actors walked off in disgust from the set of Adam Sandler’s latest film, a western sendup that its distributor, Netflix, has defended as being equally offensive to all, a glow of pride spread through several Native American communities.

Tantoo Cardinal, a Canadian indigenous actress who played Black Shawl in “Dances With Wolves,” recalled thinking to herself, “It’s come.” Larry Sellers, who starred as Cloud Dancing in the 1990s television show “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman,” thought, “It’s about time.” Jesse Wente, who is Ojibwe and directs film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto, found himself encouraged and surprised. There are so few film roles for indigenous actors, he said, that walking off the set of a major production showed real mettle.

But what didn’t surprise Mr. Wente was the content of the script. According to the actors who walked off the set, the film, titled “The Ridiculous Six,” included a Native American woman who passes out and is revived after white men douse her with alcohol, and another woman squatting to urinate while lighting a peace pipe. “There’s enough history at this point to have set some expectations around these sort of Hollywood depictions,” Mr. Wente said.

The walkout prompted a rhetorical “What do you expect from an Adam Sandler film?,” and a Netflix spokesman said that in the movie, blacks, Mexicans and whites were lampooned as well. But Native American actors and critics said a broader issue was at stake. While mainstream portrayals of native peoples have, Mr. Wente said, become “incrementally better” over the decades, he and others say, they remain far from accurate and reflect a lack of opportunities for Native American performers. What’s more, as Native Americans hunger for representation on screen, critics say the absence of three-dimensional portrayals has very real off-screen consequences.

“Our people are still healing from historical trauma,” said Loren Anthony, one of the actors who walked out. “Our youth are still trying to figure out who they are, where they fit in this society. Kids are killing themselves. They’re not proud of who they are.” They also don’t, he added, see themselves on prime time television or the big screen. Netflix noted while about five people walked off the “The Ridiculous Six” set, 100 or so Native American actors and extras stayed.

But in interviews, nearly a dozen Native American actors and film industry experts said that Mr. Sandler’s humor perpetuated decades-old negative stereotypes. Mr. Anthony said such depictions helped feed the despondency many Native Americans feel, with deadly results: Native Americans have the highest suicide rate out of all the country’s ethnicities.

The on-screen problem is twofold, Mr. Anthony and others said: There’s a paucity of roles for Native Americans — according to the Screen Actors Guild in 2008 they accounted for 0.3 percent of all on-screen parts (those figures have yet to be updated), compared to about 2 percent of the general population — and Native American actors are often perceived in a narrow way.

In his Peabody Award-winning documentary “Reel Injun,” the Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond explored Hollywood depictions of Native Americans over the years, and found they fell into a few stereotypical categories: the Noble Savage, the Drunk Indian, the Mystic, the Indian Princess, the backward tribal people futilely fighting John Wayne and manifest destiny. While the 1990 film “Dances With Wolves” won praise for depicting Native Americans as fully fleshed out human beings, not all indigenous people embraced it. It was still told, critics said, from the colonialists’ point of view. In an interview, John Trudell, a Santee Sioux writer, actor (“Thunderheart”) and the former chairman of the American Indian Movement, described the film as “a story of two white people.”

“God bless ‘Dances with Wolves,’ ” Michael Horse, who played Deputy Hawk in “Twin Peaks,” said sarcastically. “Even ‘Avatar.’ Someone’s got to come save the tribal people.”

Dan Spilo, a partner at Industry Entertainment who represents Adam Beach, one of today’s most prominent Native American actors, said while typecasting dogs many minorities, it is especially intractable when it comes to Native Americans. Casting directors, he said, rarely cast them as police officers, doctors or lawyers. “There’s the belief that the Native American character should be on reservations or riding a horse,” he said.

“We don’t see ourselves,” Mr. Horse said. “We’re still an antiquated culture to them, and to the rest of the world.”

Ms. Cardinal said she was once turned down for the role of the wife of a child-abusing cop because the filmmakers felt that casting her would somehow be “too political.”

Another sore point is the long run of white actors playing American Indians, among them Burt Lancaster, Rock Hudson, Audrey Hepburn and, more recently, Johnny Depp, whose depiction of Tonto in the 2013 film “Lone Ranger,” was viewed as racist by detractors. There are, of course, exceptions. The former A&E series “Longmire,” which, as it happens, will now be on Netflix, was roundly praised for its depiction of life on a Northern Cheyenne reservation, with Lou Diamond Phillips, who is of Cherokee descent, playing a Northern Cheyenne man.

Others also point to the success of Mr. Beach, who played a Mohawk detective in “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and landed a starring role in the forthcoming D C Comics picture “Suicide Squad.” Mr. Beach said he had come across insulting scripts backed by people who don’t see anything wrong with them.

“I’d rather starve than do something that is offensive to my ancestral roots,” Mr. Beach said. “But I think there will always be attempts to drawn on the weakness of native people’s struggles. The savage Indian will always be the savage Indian. The white man will always be smarter and more cunning. The cavalry will always win.”

The solution, Mr. Wente, Mr. Trudell and others said, lies in getting more stories written by and starring Native Americans. But Mr. Wente noted that while independent indigenous film has blossomed in the last two decades, mainstream depictions have yet to catch up. “You have to stop expecting for Hollywood to correct it, because there seems to be no ability or desire to correct it,” Mr. Wente said.

There have been calls to boycott Netflix but, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network, which first broke news of the walk off, the filmmaker Brian Young noted that the distributor also offered a number of films by or about Native Americans.

The furor around “The Ridiculous Six” may drive more people to see it. Then one of the questions that Mr. Trudell, echoing others, had about the film will be answered: “Who the hell laughs at this stuff?”

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