In three movies that I have recently viewed, the stereotyping of the Native Americans was horrible. In one movie the Native Americans where shown as a savage and brutal group of people that killed and kidnapped innocent people. Then in another movie it shows the Native Americans as an interesting people that want to know more about the white man. Then another movie shows the Native Americans as a silly group of people that want to smoke all the time and have no sense of the world around them. No matter what light the movie shows the Native Americans in, it always shows that the Native Americans were fearful of the white man at the end.
In the movie Dances With Wolves, they treat the Native Americans like people who are curious and want to learn about the white man but are still fearful of him. For example the Native American
The movie The Searchers show the Native Americans in a very different light. It shows them as horrible monsters that ride through homesteads simply to kidnap the women and kill the men. While the white man looks so innocent, like they did nothing to hurt the Native Americans at all. It shows this fact very well at the beginning of this movie when the Native Americans ride through the homestead kill everything but a couple of the women whom the kidnap. The movie also shows intense racism between the two main characters Ethan and Marty because Marty is 1/8th Cherokee.
s sit with the main character John Dunbar while he asks them if they know where the buffalo are. They then invite him to their camp and show him how they live life. The movie shows the white man as a destructive and cruel group that does nothing but plague the
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