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The figure of Pocahontas is the best example of that because she embodies a lot of the stereotypes about Native People. Not only is she oversexualized which you can notice in her way of "slithering around on the rocks," but she is also portrayed as part noble savage, part princess, part loose squaw. A figure such as Pocahontas is not necessarily portrayed as a strong leader but rather creates this stereotype of being easy, available and willing for men. Because of this mutual work, she is rewarded with a folk hero or the status of a princess. She is provided with the ability to transcend the world of her husband since marriage to a white man is seen as a reward.

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People notice there is a presence in the absence.

- Jaime Black

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Dark cofee is good if you like it good and strong

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HOW IS THE REDRESS PROJECT CONNECTED TO THE WORK OF KIM ANDERSON? 

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HOW IS THE REDRESS PROJECT CONNECTED TO THE WORK OF KIM ANDERSON? 

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- The false image of native womanhood might have been a reason why so many people treated native women with prejudice
- This prejudice might be a reason why so many of them are missing

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Exotic, powerful, dangerous and beautiful.

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- to draw attention to the gendered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence;
- to visualize the staggering number of women who are no longer alive.

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Drunken squaw.
Dirty Indian.
Easy.
Lazy.

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STEREOTYPES

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Negative Native female images are part of a vicious cycle that deeply influences the lives of contemporary Native women.

-Women were perceived as lazy and slovenly, leading to their loss of status and role as producers within the economic structure
-Women were portrayed as poor parents which allowed the state to remove the Native children and place them in residential schools or foster homes
- Fighting against the racial/sexual slurs
- Sexual violence against them was justified with the stereotype of them being easy

CONSEQUENCE: The boxes colonizers locked Native women in, such as “drunken squaw, “dirty Indian”, "easy" and "lazy" were to prove them useful to colonizers and for these women to become victims of sexual abuse without consequence. It enabled colonizers to take away children from the Native women and "paved the way for assimilation into mainstream culture."

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- It provides a better understanding of Native womanhood that will help them recover their strength, self-esteem, and dignity.

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An aesthetic response to the more than 1000 missing and murdered aboriginal women in Canada.

The author: Jaime Black

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If Native women were constructed as [...] dirty, lazy, and slovenly, it was easier to cover up the reality of Native women who were merely struggling with the increasingly inhumane conditions on reserve.

- Effect of Indigenous resistance toward Western Culture
- This negative image is used for "justifying colonial violence against Indigenous peoples."
- Used to show Western superiority not only cultural but the superiority of Western women over Indigenous Women
- Silent permission for violent behaviour

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Europeans produced images of Native womanhood to symbolize the magnificent richness and beauty they encountered.

- Mother figure combined with the figure of the Goddess
- Embodiment of "the wealth and danger of the New World"
- Later on the image of the QUEEN became an obstacle for the Colonial land claims. The restriction of Western power.

CONSEQUENCE: from the Indian Queen to the Indigenous Princess.

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Notions of complementary gender roles and gender equality in pre-contact Indigenous societies are problematic in that they are often used by Indigenous governments and policy makers to ignore the existence of patriarchal violence and oppression in our communities.

- Process of reclaiming of non-heteronormative relations, for "the imposition of heteronormative, nuclear families [...] resulted in the loss of Indigenous sexualities, lands, and political autonomy."
- Connection between the land and the common responsibility to protect it with the Indigenous Feminism
- The "need to address gendered violence in Indigenous communities."
- Address how Western culture influenced Indigenous culture and its negative effects (the loss of the identity)

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Disney's Pocahontas combines a lot of the overarching stereotypes about Native people.

- Oversexualization of Indigenous Woman
- Creating the narration that the Indigenous Woman seeks the white man attention and validation
- The beautiful exhibition; the ideal exotic creation for male gaze/Western men pleasure

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THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEGATIVE IDENTITY 

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THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEGATIVE IDENTITY 

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The Euro-constructed image of Native women, therefore, mirrors western attitudes towards the earth.