Now Starring In Children's Cartoons: Authentic Indigenous Characters
An Alaska Native girl (Molly of Denali), an Andean boy (Pachamama), two half-brothers in Mesoamerica (Victor and Valentino): Three new animations feature Native people without bygone-era baggage.
For decades, animated children's stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people.
There was Disney's Pocahontas, which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story with Captain John Smith. Crystal Echo Hawk, CEO of the media watchdog group IllumiNative, says it was a false narrative about a girl who in reality was "taken by force and sexually assaulted."
There was Tiger Lily in the classic film , the princess of the "Piccaninny" tribe who smoked a peace pipe and spoke in
