American Indians in Hollywood

Savage

• (Stereotype) Native people were described as villains out to scalp, kill and rape white settlers. Some were even thought to be cannibals.

• Stereotypical Native men were vicious and effective military leaders and hunters who fought to protect their people.

• (Stereotype) The European idea that Native tribes had a single chief who acted like a President, Prime Minister, or King at the top of a hierarchy and made all decisions on behalf of the group.

• (Stereotype) This term elevated the social status of Native women, and was used to rationalize the desire of white men for Native women.

Noble Warrior

• Stereotypical Native men were vicious and effective military leaders and hunters who fought to protect their people.

• (Stereotype) The European idea that Native tribes had a single chief who acted like a President, Prime Minister, or King at the top of a hierarchy and made all decisions on behalf of the group.

• The beginning of Westerns as a genre on the radio and in silent films, producing and reinforcing stereotypes of American Indians as different, undesirable, and threatening to white colonial settlers.

• an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.

Indian Chief

• (Stereotype) The European idea that Native tribes had a single chief who acted like a President, Prime Minister, or King at the top of a hierarchy and made all decisions on behalf of the group.

• (Stereotype) This term elevated the social status of Native women, and was used to rationalize the desire of white men for Native women.

• The beginning of Westerns as a genre on the radio and in silent films, producing and reinforcing stereotypes of American Indians as different, undesirable, and threatening to white colonial settlers.

• make the past or a way of life seem better or more appealing than it really is.

Indian "Princess"

• (Stereotype) This term elevated the social status of Native women, and was used to rationalize the desire of white men for Native women.

• Stereotypical Native women were characterized as simple servants who cooked, cleaned, and birthed children for the men.

• Stereotypical Native men were vicious and effective military leaders and hunters who fought to protect their people.

• Symbol of the entertainment business as a whole. Also, the physical location where many movies are created.

Squaw

• Stereotypical Native women were characterized as simple servants who cooked, cleaned, and birthed children for the men.

• (Stereotype) Native people were described as villains out to scalp, kill and rape white settlers. Some were even thought to be cannibals.

• Genre which tell stories set primarily in the late 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

• American Indians were portrayed in fiction speaking a form of broken English characterised by the phrases "heap big", "ugh" and "how", and verbs conjugated with "um"

Medicine Man

• (Stereotype) A romantic representation of the non-violent, land-based, "old ways" style spirituality that Native people practiced, which civilization seeks to destroy.

• Belief that Natives, like dinosaurs, eventually died off due to disease, famine, genocide, and the inability to survive evolutionary changes.

• an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.

• Between 250 and 300 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded. At least 20 American Cavalry soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for participating in the killing.

Extinct

• Belief that Natives, like dinosaurs, eventually died off due to disease, famine, genocide, and the inability to survive evolutionary changes.

• Radio program premieres on WXYZ, and would run 2,956 episodes, featuring a masked cowboy hero and his trusty Indian sidekick, Tonto.

• an over-generalized belief about a particular category of people.

• Moving picture images solidify ideas and fears of Native Americans as evil that must be stamped out of America.

Early 1900s Hollywood

• The beginning of Westerns as a genre on the radio and in silent films, producing and reinforcing stereotypes of American Indians as different, undesirable, and threatening to white colonial settlers.

• Radio program premieres on WXYZ, and would run 2,956 episodes, featuring a masked cowboy hero and his trusty Indian sidekick, Tonto.

• Genre which tell stories set primarily in the late 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

• make the past or a way of life seem better or more appealing than it really is.

Lone Ranger

• Radio program premieres on WXYZ, and would run 2,956 episodes, featuring a masked cowboy hero and his trusty Indian sidekick, Tonto.

• A nation/state that is self-governing; it controls its own affairs

• Between 250 and 300 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 were wounded. At least 20 American Cavalry soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for participating in the killing.

• A particularly violent example of the warfare between whites and Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, also known as "Custer's Last Stand."

1950s Hollywood

• Moving picture images solidify ideas and fears of Native Americans as evil that must be stamped out of America.

• Symbol of the entertainment business as a whole. Also, the physical location where many movies are created.

• a chief of the Sioux who resisted the invasion of the Black Hills and joined Sitting Bull in the defeat of General Custer at Little Bighorn (1849-1877)

• A nation/state that is self-governing; it controls its own affairs