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Native American stereotypes in movies
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- savage savages (attack the civil white people), native people "grunt"
- noble savages - romanticized - exoticized - vanishing race - wise spiritual guides - mythologized |
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different actors as tonto (reaction to johnny depp's portrayal)
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acted as "the white man's best friend"
exoticized visual representation of native people it's harder to get away with Natives as savages, but exoticizing is okay |
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Dances with Wolves
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done by a non native person
positive: - Native Americans are not savage killers - Sympathetic portrayal -Raised awareness about Native history in westward expansion Negative: - romanticized - perpetuated myth of Native Americans as a vanishing race - people only pay attention to a story told by a white person |
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movies that perpetuate stereotypes
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Dances with wolves (white person starred)
Pocahontas (completely incorrect representation of the story of pocahontas, makes white people seem good) The new world (noble savages) Apocalypto (savage savage) |
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good movies about native people
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Pow wow highway (positive hollywood movie)
smoke signals (sherman alexi, challenges native ways of life) The fast runner |
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Video games with native people
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Gun (2005) cowboy needs to kill apache native people
age of empires 3 (2006) (can take native perspective, native people are contemporary and equal, but, focus on warlike empires, stereotypes are used to talk about group differences) |
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Racist representation of people in contemporary america
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Little black sambo restaurant, now only 1 left.
Aunt jemima pancakes bud light zagar campaign (extremely racist savage savage representation) SueBee honey (sioux bee indian) crazy horse Land Lakes Calumet American spirits cars apache helicopter, tomahawk missile fashion (michelle williams) |
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last american indian on earth
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dresses up as a stereotypical indian to see people's reactions
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