American Indian Stereotypes

Making messages about American Indians is a task of care because we can easily reproduce stereotypes. Currently, as Devon Mihesuah details in her book that we tend to be told what American Indians look like, what is their behavior and culture through movies and other stereotyped materials. In my opinion, there is no one with the right to label other or even categorize them because of certain actions or behaviors. For instance, Indians were label with that name after Columbus arrived to the “New World” because he only thought that he had landed in India. Given that action that label stayed with the native residents of the “New World” not by choice but by the actions of Columbus.
In general, many of us suffered from similar behavior either by