¶ … White European Authors Depicted Native Americans in Fiction
The objective of this study is to examine how white European authors have depicted Native American in Fiction. Examined to inform this study are two specific works in writing and specifically those entitled: "The Last of the Mohicans" and "The Searchers" written by James Fenimore Cooper and John Ford, respectively.
There can be no doubt that the native American Indians are misrepresented in literature written by white European authors as the Indians are portrayed as ignorant, uneducated, ungodly, barbarians and villains. IN the literature of White European authors, the Native American Indians lived a life that was wild, unprincipled and ungodly however, study that has examined the life of the Native American Indians since those earlier works has related an entirely different story of the Native American Indians.
Coleman on Social Construction of Indians in the Cinema
The work of Cynthia-Lou Coleman entitled "Framing Cinematic Indians within the Social Construction of Place" reports that Native American images have become "ubiquitous in the marketplace of goods, with raven-haired maidens adorning grapefruit boxes and aftershave bottles shaped like war-bonneted braves." Coleman notes that such Indian iconography "extends beyond hawking trinkets to the marketplace of ideas and ideology." ( ) Exploration of cinema and the way in which White Europeans have depicted American Indians in a stereotypical role that fails to exceed what is a "one-dimensional space" although a timeless one writes Coleman ( ).
William Stedman is reported to have made the observation that Western films characterize Indians as a homogenous group portrayed as vicious, indolent, stupid, and savage. While movies 'ensnared and then filmically embalmed the Indian forever in Hollywood's image, the real crime is the constant torrent of mediated images that depict a lop-sided version of history." (Coleman, )
According to Coleman "In the colonial American captivity narrative tradition, the racial category of whiteness gives the captive agency to reproduce his/her captivity in the form of a narrative. Upon the former captive's release, ransom, or escape the cultural and colonial...
But though Indian resistance was strong Native Americans didn't have effective military organization and Europeans used the tactics of total warfare. Knowing enemy's superiority Indians unleashed guerilla wars but they didn't have any chance to win as they were not united. That was the main reason of Native Americans' failure. Colonists played various Indian tribes against one another as Colin G. Calloway wrote and this Roman strategy succeeded. Very
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