He has been taught in the textbooks and materials in the schools that Dick and Jane are little white kids. living somewhere in a treelined suburb. which has nothing to do with his kind of life except. perhaps. to depict Indians as savages. or yelling. screaming. wild people who had to be put down by Government policy and to be killed off because they had the temerity to attempt to defend their homeland. That comparison comes up from that kind of background. where the Indian has been taught that if he speaks his own language or tries to cling to his own culture. he is behind the times and is engaging In activities and speaking a language that he should leave behind. So. when the American Indian comes to the city. he has all the problems of being a rural migrant. as every immigrant who moves from one place to another. plus the additional fact that his skin is of a different colorwe all know that In this country we have not shown ourselves to be fully ready to treat people the same way when their skins are of a different color.
Identified stereotypes
Indians are depicted as savages or wild people in textbooks.