What Makes The Red Man Red Analysis

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Generally, a person’s entire preconceptions of Indigenous peoples are based upon how they have been represented to them throughout their life. Representation involves a degree of individual explanation that leads to distinctions in meanings of a particular topic. Our own perceptions and understandings are influenced by the media’s representation of particular issues. Representations are imperative as they sometimes have the ability to call our very identities into question. We struggle over them because they matter – and these are contests from which serious consequences can flow. They define what is ‘normal’, who belongs – and therefore, who is excluded (Hall, 1997, p.10).

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398). These texts represent a one sided story and are generally produced from one groups ideas of a particular culture. These representations frequently lead to deficit thinking in classrooms, households, and society.

The following song “What Makes the Red Man Red”, is from an extremely popular Disney movie; one I am sure most of you will have either seen or heard of, Peter Pan. Peter Pan is a 1953 American animated fantasy adventure film produced by Walt Disney. In a land of childish savages and rejected civilization, the portrayal of the Indigenous Native Americans is the most degenerate.

The Indigenous American Indian culture in this film has been represented as one of feathers, loincloths, teepees, wigwams and tomahawks. This portrayal of their culture is largely negative. Firstly, the main message of the song is that Indians are red, this is supported by the fact that the colour of their skin in the film is a dark red colour. I am not sure where this notion came from but it is certainly an inaccurate representation of Native Indians skin tone. As well as this, the “red men” jump around making loud noises and speak gibberish, using phrases such as

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