{{Short description|Film crew member who ensures accuracy in diegesis}} In film production, a '''technical advisor''' is someone who advises the director on the convincing portrayal of a subject. The advisor's expertise adds realism both to the acting and to the setting of a movie.
Nipo T. Strongheart was a noted technical advisor on several movies dealing with Native Americans.<ref name=Hearne2013>{{cite book|author=Joanna Hearne|title=Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xJ9z36n4ps8C&pg=PA78|date=25 January 2013|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-4399-7|pages=78, 107}}</ref><ref name="Strongheart1954">{{cite journal | last = Strongheart | first = Nipo T. | date = Autumn 1954 | title = History in Hollywood | journal = The Wisconsin Magazine of History | volume = 38 | issue = 1 | pages = 10–16, 41–46 | jstor = 4632754}}</ref>
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