Title: Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States - Wikipedia
Headings: Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
Stereotypes of indigenous peoples of Canada and the United States
Contents
Indigenous terminology
American Natives
Historical misconceptions
Purchase of Manhattan
Pocahontas
Cultural and ethnic misconceptions
Indigenous women
Substance abuse
Inuit stereotypes
Effect of stereotyping
Film
Modern perpetuation of stereotypes
Overcoming stereotypes
21st century
See also
References
External links

Content: American Indian name controversy
The first difficulty in addressing stereotypes is the terminology to use when referring to Indigenous peoples, which is an ongoing controversy. The truly stereotype-free names would be those of individual nations. A practical reference to Indigenous peoples in general is "American Indian" in the United States and "First Nations" or "Indigenous" in Canada. The peoples collectively referred to as Inuit have their own unique stereotypes. The communities to which Indigenous peoples belong also have various names, typically "nation" or "tribe" in the United States, but "comunidad" (Spanish for "community") in South America. All global terminology must be used with an awareness of the stereotype that "Indians" are a single people, when in fact there are hundreds of individual ethnic groups, who are all native to the Americas. This type of awareness is obvious when European Americans refer to Europeans with an understanding that there are some similarities, but many differences between the peoples of an entire continent. American Natives
Further information: Racism in the United States § Native Americans
Since the first Europeans made landfall in North America, native peoples have suffered under a weltering array of stereotypes, misconceptions and caricatures. Whether portrayed as noble savages, ignoble savages, teary-eyed environmentalists, drunken, living off the Government, Indian princess / Squaw or most recently, simply as casino-rich, native peoples find their efforts to be treated with a measure of respect and integrity undermined by images that flatten complex tribal, historical and personal experience into one-dimensional representations that tells us more about the depicters than about the depicted.