How to Play Indian: A Manual for the Native American Suicide

WHAT was this guy thinking? This is almost comical! Who would do this, in a movie or in real life? Nobody has ever...well, maybe that one time in that Western movie, but not always...then again, I do remember that one scene where the Indian...Okay, so this is actually pretty accurate for movies. You see these kinds of dumbed-down Native American behaviors all of the time. Why, though, did this guy have to degrade the Native American population by even writing this? Well, Eco Umberto, the author of this checklist, could have been trying to reveal an interesting truth about the typical Western movie and how almost all of them are racist and biogotted. Back in the times where these movies were common, the white man had yet to realize the racism involved. It wasn't until around the time of the African American Equal Rights Movement that people started to think about how what they had done to the Native Americans might have been wrong and biased. The worst part of it all is that there are still people that think this way.

If this piece of work had another purpose, it may have been to say that even with this kind of treatment, Native Americans were desperate for work and would subject themselves to this kind of treatment to be able to afford the necessities of life. Nobody would hire an Indian just as nobody would hire a woman or an African American. People were really racist and sexist, so whenever the opportunity to work presented itself, what other choice would a Native American man have to find work? In some ways, were you to consider the level of innate racism towards the Native Americans since we got here hundreds of years ago, it may be considered lucky to even find that job, despite the lack or respect. I am glad that things are better now, but still fully understand that we have a lot of work left to do. Hopefully we get there.