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Indian Stereotypes
One of the biggest stereotypes of Indian tribes is non-Indians believe that all Indians are alike. Unlike most people think of Indians, Indian tribes are consisted of 511 different tribes, recognized by the federal government and additional 200 unrecognized tribes. Mostly medias are the biggest contributor of implanting these stereotypes of Indian tribe members. Indian tribes wear big feathery headdresses, have body paints, live in tipis, make war cry sound to communicate, worship natures, and so on. Before the European arrival, there were more a thousand different Indian tribes and they spoke that many languages and dialects.
Second, many people still think that Indians were defeated due to their inferiority towards Europeans. Indian tribes
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