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TUESDAY, JULY 15, 2003

"One of the most offensive and damaging stereotypes for American Indians has been Hollywood's image of a warrior.

For decades, the film industry showed demeaning portrayals of movie-fantasy male warriors who were out-maneuvered and ill- prepared and inevitably died.

Hollywood subjected American Indian women to different but no less absurd and demeaning stereotypes: the Indian princess, the fur trapper's squaw, the obsequious and obedient child of nature.

Those images are slowly dissolving, and new ones are appearing."

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George Benge: American Indian women are emerging as warriors (The Olympian 7/15)