Indians in the Media

As was said in the reading this week the media always depict Native Americans as being wildmen from the plains and even go into depth about the different tribes in the midwest. What they fail to do is show the many different cultures of the southwest other than the Apaches and I feel this is wrong because the Apache were not the only tribe in that region. The media seem to always show Indians as savages because thats how we justified taking their land and going to war with them in the 18th and 19th centuries. Other than recent documentaries, we hardly ever get to see how native american culture actually was but instead always saw them as the enemy.