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The portrayal of Native Americans in film has been fed by stereotypes, which has raised allegations of racism. Traditionally, the Native American archetype has been that of a violent, uncivilized villain, juxtaposed next to the archetypal hero: the virtuous, white Anglo-Saxon settler. However, a growing number of pictures in the latter half of the Twentieth century and beyond have portrayed indigenous peoples of the Americas in a more historically accurate light. == Children's film == ''Peter Pan'' is a classic children’s Disney movie that involves Native Americans. A major scene in ''Peter Pan'' involves the Lost Boys and Peter Pan celebrating at the Native Americans' camp after Peter rescues Tiger Lily, the daughter of the chief, from Captain Hook. While they are there they sing “What Makes the Red Man Red?” : Why does he ask you, ‘how?’ : Why does he ask you, ‘how?’ : Once the injun didn’t know all the things that he know now, : But the injun he sure learn a lot, and it’s all from asking ‘how?’ : Hana Mana Ganda, Hana Mana Ganda : We translate for you. : Hana means what Mana means and Ganda means that too. : Squaw no dance, squaw get um firewood. : : When did he first say, ‘ugh’? : When did he first say, ‘ugh’? : In the Injun book it say when the first brave married squaw, : He gave out with a big ‘ugh’ when he saw his mother-in-law. : What made the red man red? : What made the red man red? : Let’s go back a million years to the very first Injun prince. : He’d kiss a maid and start to blush and we’ve all been blushin’ since. : You got it right from the headman : The real true story of the red man : No matter what’s been written or said : Now you know why the red man’s red.〔''Peter Pan''. Dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, and Hamilton Luske. Disney, 1953. Film.〕 Another classic children’s Disney movie is ''Pocahontas''. It is about Europeans that come to the Americas looking for gold. When they arrive they come across a Native American tribe that is already living on that land. There is conflict between the two groups, both hating the other. The Europeans want gold and the Native Americans want their land and their livelihoods. Just before a battle between the two groups begins, Pocahontas, a young Native American woman, saves the life of a European man, and prevents the war from happening. Pocahontas portrays Native Americans and Europeans with just as much guile. One scene involves both the Europeans and the Native Americans singing “Savages” about the other group. Europeans: : What can you expect, from filthy little heathens? : Here’s what you get when races are diverse. : Their skins are hellish red, : They’re only good when dead, : They’re vermin as I said and worse. : They’re savages, savages, barely even human, : Savages, savages, drive them from our shores. : They’re not like you and me, which means they must be evil, : We must sound the drums of war. : They’re savages, savages, dirty stinking devils, : Now we sound the drums of war. Native Americans: : This is what we feared. : The pale face is a demon, : The only thing they feel at all is greed. : Beneath that milky hide, there’s emptiness inside. : I wonder if they even bleed. : They’re savages, savages, barely even human, : Savages, savages, killers at the core. : They’re different from us, which means they can’t be trusted, : We must sound the drums of war. : They’re savages, savages, first we deal with this one, : Then we sound the drums of war. Together: : Savages, savages, now it’s up to you men, : Savages, savages, barely even human. : Now we sound the drums of war.〔''Pocahontas''. Dir. Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg. Disney, 1995. Film.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Portrayal of Native Americans in film」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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