Stereotypes Native Americans

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Stereotypes of Native Americans are oversimplified exaggerated conceptions and beliefs about a diversified group of individuals. Since their first encounter with Native Americans, Europeans created literary images of the inhabitants of the "New World" many of these depictions became the catalyst for labeling “Indians” in America. The indigenous peoples were stereotyped as wild savages, redskins, drunks, lazy, not trustworthy, and uneducated people. The Europeans saw the Indians in this light due to ignorance of their languages, customs, and traditions (Shusta et al., pgs. 229-230, 2011). The Euro Americans feared the Native Americans as they fought back and at times their resistance resulted in tribe extinction. The legislation of the Indian