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: 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. Carter Meland (Anishinaabe heritage) and David E. Wilkins (Lumbee), professors of Native American Studies at the University of Minnesota. All of the myths about American Indians can be understood in the context of the metanarrative of the United States, which was originally " manifest destiny " and has now become " American exceptionalism ". Myths and stereotypes persist because they fit into these narratives, which Americans use to understand their own history. This history includes the description of Native Americans in the Declaration of Independence as "merciless Indian savages". These stereotypes have historical, cultural, and racial characteristics.