Personally, I love the movie Peter Pan, and I used to watch
the movie with my little brother all the time.
The one scene that never made a lot of sense to me was the Indian
scene. Tiger Lilly was the stereotypical
Indian princess. She is beautiful, and
inviting of outsiders. Most Indians of
the time were not very happy when an outsider came in, and they wouldn’t offer
a pipe to share around the campfire. The
whole Indian tribe was very stereotypical.
The chief had a big headdress with feathers; he was the biggest Indian
and was very ugly. The other Indians
were just shadows and headdresses.
All the Indians were helping Peter
Pan and his clan, answer some simple questions.
What makes a red man red, and when did they first say ugh. Since Indian girls are pretty it only makes
sense for, “ugh” to come from an ugly mother-in-law. This goes along with Pocahontas, because she
was a beautiful Indian princess who was very accepting. Disney movies don’t show how Indians really
live, they don’t show what the white man did to the tribes, and they don’t show
Indians giving tobacco to the English. I
don’t think the Disney movies give Indians justice because they were not all
nice and kind and the English were not willing to learn from them. Peter Pan and Pocahontas make Indians look
stereotypical, and it is part of the reason to blame for children thinking that’s
really what an Indian is.
I think that it is funny how in movies, indians show that they are welcoming someone by allowing them to smoke some of their pipe, and if they arent offered it then they are not welcome there. I agree that Disney movies dont show how indians actually live. They only show us how society thinks they should live, how they should act, and what they should look like. I also agree with the fact that movies make the indian women look like princesses and then there is the one big indian chief with the headdress and all of the other indians literally look like carbon copies of one another with red faces and big noses.
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