Eco "How to Play Indians"

This reading was a guide that listed about 28 characteristics that all Indians have and to play one, this is how you must act. They were all the stereotypical Indian behaviors that are portrayed in movies, like The Searcher. As like in the beginning of the Searchers, there was a stereotype displayed. It showed that the Indians had made a fire to let the whites know that they were approaching. Also the Indians sent only one man to spy on the white family as stated in the movie.

It's awful how hollywood keeps portraying and contually make the Indian look as though they are dumb and unhuman. It's so crazy that i haven't read anything that correctly protrays the Indians, or even seen or heard about how the Indians trully are.