Cultural Differences In Native American Movies

People have alwaysed used art, music, literature, television and film to trace some issues in our society. Since the invention of moving images in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, film has been a particularly powerful medium in the United States. Films have served as escapist fantasies, allowing audiences to enter astonishing worlds inside the creators head and encounter wild and colorful characters and plots. Movies have also been used to convey truths about society that are more easily digested in a fictional format to the audience. Difficult topics such as the nature of humanity, love, and war have all been explored with film as the tool that disseminates these themes into the consciousness of the masses that the audience

As with any minority population, the Native American population’s challenges, struggles and progressive strides are reflected in popular culture. Hollywood and the American film industry have long represented Indians unfavorably in film and television.(Thought pg.1) This is not meaning that they have not been represented in film and television. They have been minor characters displaying stereotypical, historically inaccurate behavior. On the contrary, they existed as staple characters for a large portion of the twentieth century, especially in the popular Western genre. This marginalizing of the population of Native Americans has been manifested in the creation of harmful and one-dimensional stereotypes. Soon Native American culture will be buried by stereotypes. People must stop and think what it would be like if it was turned around on us Americans who create and support these films. Native americans are the punching bag for stereotypes. The portrayal of Native Americans in film and television has been fed by stereotypes of violence, juxtaposition next to a respectable white hero, and that of an uncivilized