Western Perceptions of the American Indian

Western perspectives on American Indians In this reflexive article I will discuss how Europeans are watching American Indians and factors that shape them. I pay particular attention to the direct information on the encounters of Western explorers, missionaries, and new world visitors and local people. It is particularly interesting to note how these accounts are distorted and used by different groups. And each group tries to form the situation in its own way.

In modern society, the Native American Indians are still considered the 15th century. John Wayne 's film and professional sports mascot reinforces Western indigenous Indian stereotypes in Western society. Hollywood movies always give American citizens a very vivid stereotype of American Indians. He is wearing a horse wearing bright war paint, a diagonal bow behind, and a bright feathered bat with some arrow on his face "red Peel "people. His house is a tent in the plain of the Midwest, killing buffaloes and fish and posing a threat to Western society. This vision of the Native American Indians has penetrated the American society. This stereotype is less obvious than the American professional and college sports team's mascot.

About three quarters of the population of India is concentrated in the Midwest and the West. There are few American Indians living in New England and the southeast states. Several New England American Indians were attributed to colonial settlers' disease and war result. In the 19th century, the American Indians in the southern part and the Ohio River basin resettled by the federal government and resettled in the present Oklahoma reserve or the Indian region (Thornton 1987).

In the 1720s, several American Indian groups began to emigrate to Ohio. By 1724, Delaware Indian today founded Kittanning Village in the Allegheny River in the western part of Pennsylvania. Delaware relocates due to the expansion of European colonial settlements in eastern Pennsylvania. What came to them was those who settled in the east. In the following decades, the other bands of scattered Shawnee began to return to Ohio. Many Seneca and other Iroquois also moved to Ohio, away from France and British empire south of Lake Ontario.