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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott Christian" data-source="post: 8869210" data-attributes="member: 6901101">I don't know how many times it needs to be said for everyone here to understand: NO ONE on this forum is saying there wasn't or isn't prejudice against Native American people. NO ONE on this forum is saying the atrocities committed against these people were small. They are huge and it was, and still is, terrible. But I find it hard to believe you clump everyone into the "Halloween" costume and don't see the irony in that. 150 million American claiming they have Native American ancestry - and they are all just doing it for "decoration"? I am going to say it twice in one post so it is clear: NO ONE is defending prejudice against Native Americans. It is a made-up argument. My response and claim to you is clear: Many movies did not depict them as villains. And the game of cowboys and Indians doesn't allow you to use it as evidence that an entire generation of people grew up believing Indians were not human beings. I pointed out to you the contrary - many people idolized Indians. They wanted to be them. Not as some romantic fetish, but because they saw their cultural customs to be something they wanted to follow. Heck, half of the environmental movement couldn't have happened without the idolization of Native Americans. So this overgeneralization you have is just that: an overgeneralization that is just as damaging as the idiots who actually did believe Indians were not human beings. And the Celtics, Trojans, Fighting Irish, The Maroons, Pistol Pete, The Mountaineers, Aztecs, etc... There are many mascots that can offend. No doubt about it. But none of it has to do with my claim.</blockquote>

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