{"id":38501,"date":"2011-08-09T10:59:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38501"},"modified":"2011-11-26T18:55:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T23:55:32","slug":"stereotypes-of-native-americans-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/09\/stereotypes-of-native-americans-in-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Stereotypes of Native Americans in Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/namericans.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-38505\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/namericans-500x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/namericans-500x180.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/08\/namericans.jpg 824w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dolores R. sent us a link to a video posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.racialicious.com\/2011\/08\/09\/native-american-images-in-video-games\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Racialicious+%28Racialicious+-+the+intersection+of+race+and+pop+culture%29\" target=\"_blank\">Racialicious<\/a> about stereotypes of Native Americans in video games. Beth Aileen Lameman, the director and narrator, discusses a number of frequent tropes used when depicting Native Americans in games, such as the half-breed hero, the wise old Indian sage, and, of course, the hottie Indian princess, as well as the tendency to conflate many different tribes and cultures. It&#8217;s a great summary of common representations of Native Americans in pop culture more broadly:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/25991603?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/25991603\">Native Representations in Video Games<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user7672161\">Elizabeth Lameman<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolores R. sent us a link to a video posted at Racialicious about stereotypes of Native Americans in video games. Beth Aileen Lameman, the director and narrator, discusses a number of frequent tropes used when depicting Native Americans in games, such as the half-breed hero, the wise old Indian sage, and, of course, the hottie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[701,1711,285,1758],"class_list":["post-38501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-modernprimitive","tag-toysgames","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42413,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions\/42413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}