Native Americans Through the eyes of My Children.m4v

[bambikoda]

but yes i do understand a little y, though2.

[bambikoda]

how was pocahontas racism? Irene Bedard played her (she is native american) and pocahontas was historacal.

[punkydiana032178]

@ mewmaster151 I have done some research on that film and did you know that a jewish man wrote the whole thing. There is another interesting fact there is only one song in the whole film by a native American (John Miller) I think thats messed up.

[punkydiana032178]

I am 75% cherokee and my sons father is irish I have tried to explain his heritage to him. Any suggestions he is 5.

[Hawaiianstile]

in this is only a small taste. then there are the mascots, the halloween costumes, and on and on it goes. i know the feeling, if i have to see one more damn person in some raffia skirt with a coconut bra and a damn pineapple doing the "hulahula" im going to throw up. i dont think the racism has grown, i think it just never changed is all.

[Tianajapp]

Oops tipis

[Tianajapp]

@shoppingluvr037 really? Really? Are you fucking serious?

[Tianajapp]

When I was little my great aunt came with me to my school, which was about 97% white kids. One kid asked her if we lived in a teepee ):

[mintypatch09]

LOL...when I moved off the reservation to the Bay Area in California I was 12 years old. Not one of my classmates could guess what I was and when I finally told them, during lunch time I one of them asked me if I could talk to trees...I had no clue what he was referring to since I was too poor to afford a disney movies, for that matter a television!!! He didnt do it to make fun of me, thats the funny part, he was serious...a bit sad too =_="

[wolf25ph]

I can see most of the stereotype for most of them, but IMHO I'm giving a pass to Pocahontas, as far as her age is concern. Think of all the princess movies, the girls are all in their late teens, with the exception of the Black Cauldron's Princess Eilonwy and who remembers her. Disney movies come from well known stories, like snow white, sleeping beauty, Cinderella, etc. So if they wanted a Native princess there are only 2 female natives well known, and I don't know how a Sacajawea could work

[roseroar88]

Rob...Schneider...what was that I don't even-

[demikede1]

In the film, Indians tried to fight back like Islamic terrorists or like Italian mobs. Other racial stereotypes abound to depict NAs, and finally the redneck white racist blue-collar hicks: starve them like the Irish or how Turks did to Armenians.

I really hope no sick comedy writer wants to dedicate a movie to NAs, but to incite the issue of racial stereotypes & not good conditions they faced in this country. The movies & TV shows shown on this vid. made a point of racist imagery of NAs. +

[demikede1]

NAs in the film - first arrived as Hindus came from India, were racially Oriental (Japanese) pilots land on the earth, then adapted a primate culture (Australian Aborigines). White men came & made them slaves or became "black", images of them drinking booze (malt liquor) or smoking weed & eating fried chicken or watermelon. The Indians morphed into Latinos (er, Mexicans) in zoot suits, form youth gangs or drive in low-riders. Finally, like the Jews in Nazi Germany - rounded up to disappear. +

[demikede1]

I'm worried of uncovering a very racist film about NAs someday to look like this (upcoming post contains racial stereotypes of other groups which has been mixed up with NAs/NDNs, since white racists compared them to other races):

[Strawberrybeautys]

really? squaw....are you serious...wow disney channel is fugged up

[Scarlett4evaFever]

NATIVE AMERICANS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dorasax1]

Squaw...really? How insulting are they trying to be?

[shoppingluvR037]

Ummm... I admit I'm not native American but what was wrong with the last 3 clips? Charlie brown showed the Indians in a nice light, bedtime stories the indian guy was exaggerating on purpose ( he talks normal afterwards) for comedy and I don't know the story behind the last one but the clip was totally fine? I mean, I'd be scared too if a giant person tried to hold me...

[robfergusonjr]

Nothing is gonna be 100% historically accurate ... I do like the white girl Injun in peter pan btw ... I wish Rob Schneider or Adam Sandler would do a black person in make up too! It would be so funnie: Mammie! Mammie! LOL! ... Fair is Fair. Make phun of the de Injun make fun of ALL the races, especially the Blacks. They seemed to be excluded for some reason. Now that they have a President, the blacks are fair game.

[Skoked]

Someone has to much time on there hands. I don't see a problem here.

[spidez8407]

@Skoked lol typical

[TheTribalFox]

>_< The thing that bothers me the most is the Puritans are portrayed as friendly and kindly when they later murdered Wamsutta and cut off a leader's head and left to hang in there village for I believe two decades. That's...very...civilized.

As for the Indian in the Cupboard. That movie was wrong in two many ways to count. They way the boy treats his new "friend" is rather..disgusting. That movie and book would have been better I suppose if Little Bear wasn't portrayed the way he was.

[demikede1]

@TheTribalFox The magical Indian is close to the magical Negro stereotypes. The way NAs were represented in film & other media continues some of the racially charged myths of how NAs/NDNs are depicted by whites or other cultures not full familiar with NA culture. The 'Pocahontas' movie tried to tell the story with some accuracy, but what about 'Dances with Wolves' & 'Last of the Mohicans'? I heard the two movies hired American Indian cultural experts whom studied the Mahikan & Lakota for them. +

[YoungDreezee]

I can see where natives would be upset, especially the charlie brown thanksgiving.Some natives believe that they been suckered out of their land. Only reason why i know this is because i have a friend who is native indian, and i asked him was he doing anything for thanksgiving. He told me that his fam doesnt celebrate the holiday.

[JakeLL]

Todays cartoons? A lot of this stuff is from the 90's or earlier. And it's been 20 years since the 90's.

[FireCamel]

I don't see how the Charlie Brown one is offensive.

[mewmaster151]

Pocahontas is one of the most historicaly inaccurate movies ever! 1 she was 13 at the time, therefore not a love interst

2 a movie taking place in virginia.... looks nothing like virginia, the trees, plants, rocks and animals are all wrong.( ie: a goddamn moose)

3. jhon smith wasnt one of the original people to come to james town, he came after it had already been established

[TheTribalFox]

@mewmaster151 The Pocahontas they did was based off the bullshit story John Smith went back to England with. The movie, it was Disney, it was trying to be cute. The parents who let they're children believe that all that is factual...they are more at fault than Disney.

[mewmaster151]

@TheTribalFox im sorry but growing up in virginia and having visited jamestown this movie always pissed me off

[Godshound]

@mewmaster151 who cares? as long as its defending native americans, its a good movie!

[mewmaster151]

@Godshound im sorry but growing up in virginia and having visited jamestown this movie always pissed me off. its just retarded not to mention all the animals are wrong i have never ever seen a moose, a weeping willow,a hummingbird, a beaver, or a godamned buffalo. the only animal they got right was the fucking raccoon

[Godshound]

@mewmaster151 well, most of the animals in virginia were killed when white people first arrived (but you're defo right about the buffalo)

[AlMaadeed1]

@mewmaster151 its just a movie for children...doesnt have to be that accurate

[hint0122]

its a fucking kids movie, not a documentary.

[rygreen100]

Thanks for your comment. Thats a great question. I personally feel that we are so accustomed to seeing these stereotypes that we don't even notice them. I almost said why i believe they are stereotypes in the video but decided to let people judge for themselves.

The Pocahontas clip to me perpetuates the belief that Native Americans all talk to nature. She is accompanied by a host of animals as she talks to the tree and listen to the wind for answers.

[rygreen100]

(part 2)i added the Peanuts clip because it is not really historically accurate but more because it continues to push the belief that the "thanksgiving" interaction was a good one for both sides. In reality it pretty much spelled the end for Native Americans. There's a reason why they don't celebrate it.

I think "Indian in the Cupboard" clip says the most to me. The image of a little boy handling a Native American in his hands really struck me.

[hint0122]

bs. it wasnt the end since there are still tribes around now

[Godshound]

@rygreen100 well, native americans may not haved literally 'talked' to nature, but we do know that they had a better connection with nature than the whites

[Averyofthemain]

@Godshound Oh rrrreally, You realize they would stampede whole herds of buffalo over a cliff, right, and most of the time only take the tongue.

[Sonario51]

I can see a few stereotipical things, but the Pocahontas and Peanuts ones I don't get. And the Indian in the Cupboard one doesn't make any sense. How is the Native American in the movie portrayed as innacurate?

[madcowstankho01]

@Sonario51 Did you know that in Pocahontas they spent 3 months tring to perfext what they call her "sexy crabwalk" which she does when she is crawling all over the place. Us natives americans didnt crawl we had no reason to we have feet and hands just like everyone else but no they had to portray her to be more "savage-like" do yu get it why pocahontas is now???

[Sonario51]

@madcowstankho01 I don't remember Pocahontas crawling... O_o

[madcowstankho01]

@Sonario51 watch the movie again and see when she is crawling then if you dont remember

[TheTribalFox]

@madcowstankho01 Wasn't she crawling to avoid detection?