2. Our group is about
Native Americans. These
include people who are
currently living in
Alaska and Hawaii.
They have been
portrayed in positive
and negatives ways
which include them
being seen as very
positive by being
intelligent and
leaders, but they are
also sometimes
portrayed as being
lazy alcoholics . Introduction
3. Negatives:
Alcoholics.
Lazy.
Live on reservations
and benefits.
Positives:
Spiritual and wise.
Animal lovers, tree
huggers, sun
worshippers.
Storytellers
Some
Archetypes
of Native
Americans
4. In films such as the
Northwest Passage, Native
Americans are the villains,
and attacking White
settlers. But there are
many Hollywood films that
offer a more sympathetic
picture. Most of the John
Ford Westerns show
respect and positivity
toward American Indians,
and they are the heroes
of such major films as
Broken Arrow and Dances
With Wolves.
5. Peter Pan is a classic children’s
Disney movie that involves Native
Americans. A major scene in Peter
Pan involves the Lost Boys and Peter
Pan celebrating at the Native
Americans' camp after Peter rescues
Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief,
from Captain Hook. While they are
there they sing “What Makes the Red
Man Red?”
In most films involving Native
Americans, they wear clothes made
from animal skins, carry spears, and
enjoy fighting with most strangers
who come into their land. The
warriors fight with arrowhead knives.
In the classic movie Pocahontas the
native American’s are portrayed as
strong and primitive as they use
their brut strength when fighting.
These kinds of representations give a
negative view of native American's to
the young kids and these ideologies
of the director, become the
ideologies of the children.
In Cartoons
8. In recent media there
is a love/hate
relationship between
the America’s and the
native American’s.
Although in the 1950s
native Americans were
represented as
villains and hating
white/American people.
During this period
native Americans were
also represented as
blood-thirsty savages.
Hollywood tend to
ignore the historical
values of the native
Americans and only
portray the negative
stereotypes. Hollywood
9. One of the most famous stereotypes about
native Americans is that they are alcoholics and
that they are lazy
On the other hand elderly native Americans are
represented as very spiritual and wise, and you
go to them for advice.
Another stereotype of native American's is that
they perform black magic
Stereotypes
/Archtypes
10. portrayed as a witch and performing black magic, spiritual and wise
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