Sunday, October 11, 2009

Hollywood stereotyped the Native Americans


A big part of our studies of the Battle of Little Bighorn (aka Custer's Last Stand) includes perspective, or a persons/peoples point of view. The ideas of 'cowboys and indians' is a large part of what has developed peoples perspective(point of view). Watch the film How Hollywood stereotyped the Native Americans and then answer the questions below.

1-How have western movies portrayed Native Americans?

2-Who is the targeted audience of these 'cowboy and indian' films?

3-What two perspectives are used as examples?

4-The film concludes with the statement, "a nation who does not know its history, has no future." What point does this quote make?

5-Elaborate on one of the following topics: a) the victor tells the story b) all stories of history include two sides c) stereotypes that are portrayed in the entertainment business(Hollywood).

40 comments:

chevis_b said...

1. Hollywood made the Indians savages
2. white people
3. Indians vs whites

jorge said...

They make native americans look like there mean and like to kill and stuff.

Savanah said...

1. They have portrayed Native Americans by It has made them into bad people.

2.It is the Native Americans and the sioux.

3.The two perspectives is when those two guys with the Indian and the white men, the white men was stronger then the Indian.

4.If you don't know what's going on then you have no future.


5. The victor tells the story.
he tells it because he was probably in there of what happened...

chevis_b said...

1. Hollywood made the Indians savages
2. white people
3. Indians vs whites
4. it means that history has a purpose
5.c) alot of people don't even know but every is stereotyping all the time

Brooklyn! :) said...

1. Western movies have portrayed Native Americans because the movies are making it seem like the Indians are bad people, but they really aren't.
2. The targeted audience is the cowboys and other non-Indian people. Because they have very different opinions about the Indians.
3. The two perspectives are of the Indians and of the Cowboys. The cowboys think that the Indians are the terrible people, and the Indians think that the cowboys are the bad people.
4. The point of the quote is that if the nation does not know what is important from the past, nobody will care about the future.
5. I will choose C!
Hollywood portrays stereotypes because to every story there is two sides, so the movie can only focus on one side. There-fore the other side looks like the "bad guys". Either point of view that the movie is coming form, it almost always makes the other side the "bad guys".

Caleb said...

1. As vicious violent killers.
2. Mostly white people.
3. Indian young kids, and white people.
4. It means that if we are to strive in the future then we have to know about our past.
5. The victor tells the story: It means that who ever wins the war or fight gets to tell the story and they get to put in all the details they want.

Rayshell Kalkofen said...

1.) they have potrayed them as cold blooded killers that are alwase mean.

2.)white people

3.)white people and indians

4.)you can't start new.

5.)C) people are potrayed as sompthing they are not like all Idians are bad and all white man are good.

ray phillips said...

1. they make them look like savages.
2. white guys
3. indians and cowboys
4. that were not incarge
5. b the cowboys and the indians

Emily Phifer said...

1. They are shown as the bad guys beating each other up.
2. White people.
3 Coyboys(White people)And indians.
4. It means that they don't know nothing. And you don't learn from your past so you can't learn the future.
5. B. That means not all people believe the same thing so they might be more then one story.

Mercedes said...

1. Western movies have portrayed indians as the bad guys. As evil.
2. The targeted audience of 'Cowboy and indians' movies are white people.
3. The two perspectives that are used as examples are the indians and the white peoples views. Or the cowboys and the indians.
4. This quote means that if our nation does not know our own history then we cannot learn from the mistakes that we have made and progress into the future..
5. b) the details of this are that movies are always from two perspectives are that in most weterns they are from the cowboys and indians.

shaina said...

1~ it has mad them seme like the bad guys.

2~ it is normily and cowboy and a indian a gents a shouthere.

3~ it would be 2 peopel a genst echothere.

4~ i thank it mends that you have to no the histry and the detels.

5~ if the victor tells the story then if you have no victor then is there a story or a foushere.

angelica fernandez said...

1- there's a native american in every western movie?

2- white people

3- white people always win in these movies and thee native americans are bad poeple

4-well if you don't know anything about your past, how are you suppose to know your future?

5- b- ya i guess that's true, there's always something you know but, not everyone is going to believe it

tabitha weisz said...

1)There is a native American in every movie and there always fighting.
2)White people.
3)White people and native American.
4)you need to understand your past to know you future.
5)not everybody will believe the same story so there has to be two.

Breanne L. said...

1. Western movies have portrayed Indians because the white people and Indians have different views.
2. The targeted audience of the films is white people.
3. The two perspectives is like when the Indians were shooting the white people and the white people were shooting the Indians.
4.The point the this quote is that a nation, that doesn't know what happened in the history, you can't learn from your past.
5. "All stories of history include two sides" The two sides are the cowboys and the Indians and they are very different.

Chris said...
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Chris said...

1- They made the Indians look like savages.

2- The white people.

3- We are seeing the white people and the indians.

4- There is no future.

5. The victor tells the story about winning. (I think)

jorge said...

2. The targeted audience would be cowboys and stuff.

3.?

4. This means that you have to learn from your past to learn from your future?

5. b) This means that the Americans have a story to tell and that the Indians also have a story to tell. there is to sides to a story.

Cheyenne B. said...

1.The movies are making the Indians out to look like they are so bad and crazy but really they aren't they just wanted their land back.

2.The audience is the cowboys and white people because they would be interested in watching it.

3.One was a girl Indian and when she was little girl all she saw was the view of the movies she never saw how real Indians where. Another one was a lady that was talking about how her son does not understand why people make movies like that.

4."A nation who does not know it's history, has no future." This quote tells us that if you don't know your history and you don't know what all happened and you don't care there is no way you can learn from the past and you might make the same mistakes as they did.

5B. All of the stories have two sides because the Indians and the cowboys all have different opinions on the stories. If the story is about the Indians they can tell you that all of that is not true and then when the Indians tell stories about the cowboys they can say none of that is true and there ends up being a fight between the two.

RodriguezJ said...

1. they made the indians seem dumb and unevolved

2. As ruthless killers who attack anything.

3. White people

4. That indians don't know how they got to where they are.

5. all stories have two sides. they have a good guy and a bad guy.

Jessi Sodders >=) said...

1. Western movies have portrayed Native Americans as savages and blood thirsty killers.
2. White men are the targeted audience of these films because it shows the white men always beating the Native Americans and the Native Americans are always the bad guys.
3. The whites and Indians.
4. I think that this quote means that if you do not remember your past you cannot learn from it. Therefore you cannot use the knowledge to build the future.
5. C) Stereotypes portrayed in the entertainment business(Hollywood). Back in the earlier days people would portray Native Americans as mean or cold-blooded creatures that only want to kill the white men.

Jessica said...

1. Because they think they are always mean and white people are all not that perfect.
2. They where making it for white people.
3. Whites vs Indians
4. If you can't learn in the past you can not learn in the future.
5. The things tells a story. he tells what happends

Christine Dalton. =/ said...

1. Western movies told people that Indians are bad people and they are weak, because the white people won a lot of the time when they fought. The whites were strong and killed off the Indians, so they were gallant about their victories.
2. The targeted audience is anyone who is interested, or basically feels the same way about how they put down the Indians, or made the whites more victorious.
3. The two perspectives used are Native American actors, or just people, and white people.
4. 'A nation that does not know its history, has no future.' They are getting at, if you have no idea what the past was like, there is no hope for getting better at anything in the future, if you don't learn the past, and understand it, we cannot live in the future, make changes, and live better off.
5. B) All stories of histories have two sides.
Meaning there are two sides to every story. You cannot have one without the other. He said things went this way, and this is how people were back then, they say things went that way and this is how they were, but here is why.
Example- Whites say the Natives were terrible, vile, and rude. They were savages. The whites were mighty and took care of them, killed them off or made them slaves. But the Natives thought otherwise. They were made savages, because the whites wouldn't leave them be.... well,
two sides to every story.

Allison Kent said...

1~Western movies portrayed Native Americans as the bad guys.

2~Maybe people who like those kind of movie.

3~The 2 perspectives are: the Indians and the other people.

4~If you don't know your past you have no future.

5~ I choose B).

Olivia Hill said...

1. movies have portrayd native americans to make it a little more interesting.
2.the targeted audience is for the little kids so they can see what the indian lives were not really like but they don't know it so the little kids believe it and find indians to be the bad guys and not to trust them even though its really the americans who have done bad.
3. good guys and bad guys
4.that if one does;t know how his life had started in the way it has then there is no way to tell how one will die
5.all stories do need two sides to it because every one sees things differently because every one has a differnt perspective

chris p said...

1. They have portrayed Native Americans by It has made them into rong people that like to kill.

2.It is the Native Americans and the sioux i think.

3.The two perspectives is when those two guys with the Indian and the white men, the white men was stronger then the Indian and it was always the white men that won the battle.

4.If you don't know what's going on then you have no future.


5. The victor tells the story.
he tells it because he was there of when it happened.

catherine c said...

1. hollywood made the indians savages
2. white people
3. indians vs whites
4. The targeted audience is the cowboys and other non-Indian people
5. they made them look bad or that one is better then the other one or that one can do something better that the other one

Anonymous said...

1. they made the indians seem dumb and unevolved and peer brutes

2. As ruthless killers who attack anything.

3. White people

4. That indians don't know how they got to where they are.

5. all stories have two sides. they have a good guy and a bad guy.

Anonymous said...

1. It changed people to make them bad people.

2.They have very different opinions of the indian and the white people.

3. The white man was stronger than the other person, indians and white people.

4. It means history has a purpose, and that and nobody will care obout the future.

5. Stereotypes that are portrayed in the entertainment business (Hollywood)

matt duncan said...

They made them savages
The indians
The indians think white men are bad and white men think indians are bad
The quote means that you shouldn't steriotype people because they might not be like everybody else
All stories in history include two sides. In this story the indians are seen as bad.

Joe Anderson said...

1) They are the bad guys in the movies
2) The white people
3) The white people always win and Indians are bad
4) If it does not know what happened they will not know what will happen to them
5) A) he tells the story because he is one of the director of a film B) The different races have different sides of the story C) They get money so they don't care about the Indians

Tiffany bray said...

They make them selfs seem like the good guy and always win and make the indians the bad guys and always win

albert said...

1)they make indians killers
2)white people
3)indians and white people

Henry said...

1. Native Americans are portrayed as savages and war mongers in movies.

2. White people are the target of these movies

3. White man is always good, native american is evil

michael goodman said...

1. they have betrade them as brute saviges

2. white all amarican people

3. inadains die and white poeple win

4. it means that if we bleave were all powerifully its not true becouse thats not how it really was

5. all stories history include two sides

Anonymous said...

1. well they say how they are better then native amercans
2.

conley armstrong said...

1. They made the indians' potray what they want them to be like.

2.the cowboys are part of attacked in these motion films.

4. your dooming future because because you don't know were the hollywood doesn't know which way take in

3.the white man and the indian perspective in the movie

5.how victor doesn't know the place to say to all his fellow indians

josh said...

bad guys, white man, the white man and the indians, we think we are beter, the loser is dead.

Bobby Solomon said...

1. It has portrayed them as savages and evil
2. the white people to show that white people always win
3. the Indians and the white people
4. if you don't know where your from you wont know what to do next
5. he tells his thinking of it

Hannah Morris said...

1. They portray them as savages.
2. White people and children.
3. White men and indians.
4. It means if we don't know what happened in the past we don't know how to deal with situations similar to ones in the past.
5. All stories in history involves to sides such as the white men and the indians.

matasha said...

1. As vicious violent killers.
2. Mostly white people.
3. Indian young kids, and white people.
4. It means that if we are to strive in the future then we have to know about our past.
5. The victor tells the story: It means that who ever wins the war or fight gets to tell the story and they get to put in all the details they want.