In Disney’s Pocahontas, there are many different stereotypes. First of all Pocahontas only really has one good friend in the movie. Shes the only one you ever see her talking to. Every other time she is talking to Grandmother Willow or her animal friends. They seem to be the only ones that can understand and relate to what she is talking about. This stereotype is something that everyone thinks Native Americans do. That they all relate to nature and are at peace with it. These scenes in Pocahontas connect with the Familly Guy film when the Indians make the dad and son have to go out into the woods and become one with nature to get their car back.
Another stereotype in the movie is when the Native Americans are sitting around the campfire and they start to sing the song What Makes the Red Man Red. All of the Indians look the same. They all have big noses and red bodies with moccasins and some type of robe on. They are playing on the stereotype that all Indians look alike with their big noses and red faces. However they also do show the stereotype of the female Indian being almost like a princess in the film. Both of these showing that America has its idea of how people should look in their minds when in reality they are so different from what we think.
I am a little interested to know what you meant when you talked about the fact that Pocahontas only has one human friend. Her friend in the film was very much like the rest of the tribe and even chided Pocahontas a few times for her fantasmic ideas. This makes me wonder why Pocahontas was actually friends with her above anyone else!
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