Native American Stereotypes

Analyse the representation of a race, class, gender (or other roles in society) in two feature films or television dramas you have studied.

Amitabh Bachchan, he is considered as the most prejudiced actor of famous personality of the Indian industry. He is very famous among them.

These stereotypical binaries of the childlike and savage Indian are directly linked to the narratives of white settler society and colonization. Essentially, by classifying all First Nation cultures under a monolith of a few stereotypes the white setter society claimed dominance over the First Nation peoples as they created the lens through which the First Nation’s history and identity would be read. The influence of the press and government policies lead to the acceptance of these stereotypes as defining truths about First Nations people which aided the settler societies in solving the Indian problem by destroying what it meant to be Indian. In this way, the stereotypes not only developed the idea of assimilation to save the Indian, but they

Many races are unjustly victimized, but Native American cultures are more misunderstood and degraded than any other race. College and high school mascots sometimes depict images of Native Americans and have names loosely based on Native American descent, but these are often not based on actual Native American history, so instead of honoring Native Americans, they are being ridiculed. According to the article Warriors Survive Attack, by Cathy Murillo (2009) some “members of the Carpentaria community defended Native American mascot icons as honoring Chumash tradition and the spirit of American Indian Warriors in U.S. history and others claimed that the images were racist stereotypes” (Murillo, 2009). If people do not attempt to understand

“For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.” (Dan Maffei) Sports teams should not be allowed to use names and mascots of Native Americans. It is offensive to their culture, their images are overexaggerated, most sports teams that use Native American mascots do not even have a majority Native American team, and it is only considered okay with Native Americans but for other cultures it is racist.

Societal values are cultural standards that indicate the general good deemed desirable for social life and these standards determine what is right, important, and ideal for society. Pop-culture creates and upholds these societal values, such as stereotypes that apply to different groups of people. The general public looks at news, celebrities, movies, and high influential people as a way to shape their thoughts on a race/ethnicity, gender, age, income/status, weight, or sexuality.

People of all ethnicities and races are stereotyped; everyone has stereotyped at one point or another. A few I have heard include "all Indians eat curry," and the dreaded "all Indians are smart." Such misconceptions affect me socially, as some people befriend me to copy work, therefore, having close friends is a challenge. Furthermore, I have become the perfect target for unsubstantial expectations, which increase my emotional stress. Assumptions of intelligence are extremely burdensome because one has to live up to those standards. Consequently, Cognitively, I avoid generalizations and using them. Judging something truthfully requires first-hand experience. My race physically affects me in that I have never had a sunburn. Growing up, I could

Before I joined this class I didn’t know much of anything about Native Americans except the stereotypes that were shown on television whether they were positive or negative like all Native Americans live on a reservation, all Native Americans are drunks, and all Native Americans are spiritual.

Native Americans are often identified as people who wear headdresses, have long hair, high cheekbones, red skin, ride horses, and kill buffalo. Most people don’t really care about how this affects Natives because they either don’t personally know any or they’re just insensitive towards these people. I find that the most damaging views on Native Americans is the way Hollywood and media has portrayed these people to be. In fact, they aren’t even portrayed as normal, functioning human beings; they are dehumanized and humiliated due to being viewed as alcoholics, addicts, uneducated, and illiterate. White America has put most other races into a box that consists of stereotypes and hurtful assumptions of those people. Being that the United States

Native Americans may have been displaced or band from their lands, but because of their suffering they managed to keep their culture alive. Throughout the years Native Americans have been ignored and not taken into consideration in the media. When they are included in media depictions, they generally are portrayed as individuals from the nineteenth centuries or when shown as modern people they are represented as people with addiction, poverty and lack of education. This representation does not reflect among the wide diversity of hundreds of tribal cultures that exist within the borders of the United States. History is a story most often related through the subjective experience if the teller. With the inclusion of more and varied voices, histories

Since the 1970s, Congress and the Supreme Court have supported tribal sovereignty but in media representations, Indians are being portrayed as lazy and greedy as they pursued these rights. Indian communities’ efforts, for example to open casinos, or attain treaty rights to fish in certain places, have often been met with ridicule or hostility. This stereotype of Native Americans in media have been perpetuated by years of hostility. Originated from the interactions from colonists from the beginning and the view colonists had of them. Modern television shows, movies, and sport mascots with contemporary Native characters will demonstrate the stereotypes of Native people in non-Native media. The denial of Indian identity, mockery and racism has

This is their home, the first people in the great country known as Canada. Yet they were called the savages in a place that is home for them; called names by the people who were new to this place. These people were named Indian, mistaken for Indians from India. Over the centuries Aboriginal people have faced a lot of difficulties in their daily life, each day full of new challenges including drug Issues, personal identity problems, and proper education.

Of all the ethnicity groups, Native Americans are the ones that are least one to be mentioned. Their history and stories have to trace back in the late 18th and 19th centuries when the Europeans expanded their territories and took over their lands, indeed, brutal fight was necessary. After many battles, the Native Americans were forced to leave their land, and thus, Europeans, settlers dominated their lands. However, Native Americans are not like other groups that mainly who are immigrants, they are part of the American, yet ironically, nature has shaped and labeled them as the inferiors due to “the idea of Indians as “savaged” corresponded to the treat that Indians posed to early settlers” (Race & ethnic relations 9th Ed, pg155). The concept of labeling Native Americans not only involved in folks stories, but also massive media reformed them into stereotypes of lazy, brutal, or treacherous. Moreover, movies are also prototyping the American Indians as images of belligerence and brutality. In

The word Tribe has been misleading for many people. The word Tribe mislead stereotypes in their cultural and historical assumptions. Since Africa is a poor continent it is recognize as the most poor and underdeveloped and many people believe that this has not change a lot in the past years. The truth is that Africa has develop extremely in the 20th century. The term tribe was used by the Romans to denote their own population.

Native American representations in film is particularly important in influencing public opinion regarding depictions and beliefs of what Native people are like. Often associated with popular film in the United States is an Anglo constructed representation of a dated, drunken, and traditionally dressed Native person that seems to perpetuate these stereotypes. Because some shows are so popular in the United States, the effects can be powerful. The influence of these pictures comes from the large viewing audience, the cultural majority of the audience, and a failure to accept modernity of Natives. Still in the twenty-first century, there are several representations like this that imitate stereotypes, impact the majority culture, and negatively impact Native American communities. In this essay, I will analyze a case of this stereotyping of Natives in a modern comedy television show called Family Guy.