From the Tomahawk Chop to the Road Block: Discourses of Savagism in Whitestream Media
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Daniel Morley Johnson
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 1, Winter, 2011, pp. 104-134
Description
Examines how the media perpetuates stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples such as the misrepresentation of racist sports mascots and related imagery; and looks at the discourses of Savagism with regard to news coverage of anticolonial direct action and the reclamation of land by sovereign Indigenous peoples and nations.