Media has been portraying Native Americans in a negative stereotypes through redfacing. Adtionaly the term redface is to describe the wearing of feathers, war paint, etc. by non-natives such as white Americans who were playing Native Americans. “Refacing is a refraction of the image held up by Hollywood that foregrounds issues of uneven power relationships between Native Americans and European Americans” pp21 There is a characterization that white have power over all other civilizations through their depictions in media. Furthermore, to the idea that through redface whites can portray colonialism with the idea that they are the saviours of the savage. According to the Oxford Dictionary colonialism is “the policy or practice of acquiring full
