Just like black face did for African Americans, the red face and buffoon and savage roles that NA played in movies keeps them from ever being explored as a whole person.
Also, in regards to question 7, I think it is just crazy to think that we make these movies and cartoons (the Bugs Bunny "one dead injun, two dead injun..... oh nope he's a half-breed" quote will forever been in my head) without any regard to who will watch them. I understand that it's mostly white people watching Westerns, but when a NA sees one it's like being slapped in the face. The movie is completely and literally demeaning your whole culture.
Imagine if we were forced to watch a Soviet Russian anti-American film which portrayed us as the villians, the fools, the idiots. How would we we feel?
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