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Analyzing The Animated Film 'Colors Of The Wind'

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The notion of “them or us” is a huge part of the plot throughout the animated film and it presents us with how different cultures see each other as enemies, simply because they perceive intercultural relationships in a black or white manner. Otherization is an unavoidable part of Disney’s Pocahontas, since John Smith openly differentiates himself and his culture from that of Pocahontas and Native American-Indians. The aforementioned importance of the songs is highlighted here again. In “Colors of the Wind”, Pocahontas sings about how John Smith sees her as an “ignorant savage.” Also, the critique of racist elements is another point worth mentioning about the animated film. It is obvious that Governor Ratcliffe feels superior not only towards …show more content…

However, in the movie, it is actually only the settlers who kills the natives and destroys their land. As Maalouf mentions in his book On Identity, the strongest manifestations of the identity are present when it is threatened. (Maalouf 2000) Therefore, the settlers close ranks and get defensive of their land and culture after the settlers attacked them. In this sense, the lyrics of the song “Savages” can be considered especially offensive to Native American-Indians, since it refers to them as instinct-driven people with no control of their emotions or actions, while the only things they do is protecting their own land and people. Also, the aforementioned fact that John Smith has slayed hundreds of natives before and is considered an expert of killing natives adds to this theme. Other than continuously calling the American-Indian natives “bloodthirsty savages”, the settlers also talk about how the natives are “only good when dead.” The natives sing the same song with slightly different lyrics, but mostly in a similar

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One tribe known for being hostile towards other groups were the Savages. When reading about the Savages in the document

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Even today, movies and cartoons that depict Native Americans in any way are most often being portrayed in the same fashion as they have been for hundreds of years: through the eyes of the earliest white settlers. When Disney’s Pocahontas came out, the brutal song “Savages!” devastated Native American children.

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These tribes were more civilized then we are lead to believe. White Americans loathed the Indians because they were “undeserving” of the fertile land they had. White settlers wanted this land so bad they burned down house and towns, stole animals and lived in land that didn’t belong to them. They tormented the native Americans for decades and then the state governments started passing laws to strip the Indians of their rights.

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An excellent example within the novel that correctly portrays the Native American’s hostility towards the people that they see as invaders takes place while the group is traveling by rail to Omaha.” They then perceived that the train was attacked by a band of Sioux. This was not the first attempt of these daring Indians, for more than once they had waylaid trains on the road.” The white man treated the Indians very poorly taking their land and their main food source. In result, the Indians fought back, and when they did so, the whites did too with just as much force.

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Stereotypes can be harmful to those they pertain to, as they can contain false negative connotations that have the power to demonize entire groups of people. The formation of a negative stereotype could result from the events at the powwow near the novel’s conclusion, as the acts of violence and robbery committed by Native people against other Native people could reflect negatively on the entire community. The acts committed by a small number of the population could make the entire community appear to be unsympathetic and violent to an outsider who will not take the time to understand the community as a whole. Evidence of this lack of interest in other cultures can be seen when Tony talks to a white woman on the train. He invites her to attend the powwow, but she makes an excuse, and he stops listening to her speak because he knows that, “People don’t want any more than a little story they can bring back with them, to tell their friends and family around the dinner table, to talk about how they saw a real Native American boy on a train, that they still exist” (Orange 235).

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A popular theme in the Reel Injun was the portrayal of Native Americans as savages. In addition to the cinematic examples of this, the idea of “Cowboys and Indians” comes to mind. A simple childhood game where the two sides are depicted in battle over territory. Now I 'm not sure if this is just my own personal connotation of the game, but as a child I remember the Indians always being the “bad guys,” and the goal was to protect your land from them. In reality it was the entire opposite way around, the Native Americans were trying to protect their land from the settlers.

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