Native American Stereotypes Essay

“Eliminating Indian Stereotypes from American Society: Causes and Legal and Societal Solutions” by Kim Chandler Johnson and John Terrence Eck, and “A Review and Analysis of the Research on Native American Students,” by William G. Demmert, David Grissmer and John Towner both essentially express the disadvantages Native Americans experience throughout their lives and still in modern day. These disadvantages range from: The school system and their academics, and the indirect racism that they are faced with. Whether it is intentional or not the lack of respect for Native Americans as a people, their culture, and their achievements has been highly practiced and accepted in American Culture.
In the article “Eliminating India Stereotypes…,” the authors

The authors stated that, “The lack of emphasis on Native American achievement partly arise because the total student population is much smaller than the black, Hispanic or disadvantaged white populations.” This essentially means that because of their population, their achievements have not been awarded as they should have been. Native American students are essentially looked over because of their small population. It has also been fairly difficult to award Native Americans because the ethnicity of being pure Native American is often taken out of context. It has been shown that many people identify as Native American but they are of many other races. This has made it difficult because it has been shown that those who are of only Native American decent perform differently in a sense of academics than those who are mixed races. Overall in this article the authors have linked these differences in performance to a much more personal level. The way in which a Native American child of full descent is raised by his/her parent/s compared to someone of White, Black, or Latino heritage. Being that each culture has their own values and goals. Native Americans have seemed to keep their traditional ways of learning, and living rather than converting to the American style of: going to college, or reading at