Feathers, one with the horse, great warriors, spiritual, nobal, and free this is how the media is potraying the Native Americans. Speaking as a Native American we are not like that! We don't march around chanting with feathers in our hair, and most of us don't even know how to ride a horse. The media is very wrong about Native Americans and this documentary I was happy to see addressed that. When Natives started in films they were payed with tobacco and fire water, on set though people were afraid of them so they were escorted around by armed guards. Natives are always potrayed as stupid, they almost never talk in full sentences in the movies and it looks like all we do is hunt, fight, and kill. The media needs to re-think how they do cretain things and create certain characters and I think they started to realise this when the Natives started to fight back on the sacred Native ground of Wounded Knee.
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