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When I am asked about Native Americans my knowledge is very little. As a young kid I was taught in history class that native Americans lived in tipis and were red skinned. I was told they used fire signals and were just very down to earth. My assumptions were wrong and not everything I was told was all true or may have been true a very long time ago

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A stereotype I have unknowingly believed in was that all Indians live in tipis. I formed this belief most likely from my old history classes where there were pictures of Indians living in tipis and we learned that that was what they lived in in earlier times but I just believed they still lived in them because I didn't know what to think. My views are not accurate but they were based off of some events in history.

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i always thought that the native American population was very low, around a couple hundred thousand, but there numbers as a whole are actually around 5.2 million people. i also thought that they always wore fur items for clothing but in fact they harvested cotton for basic tunics and pants.

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One common misconception is that they do not pay taxes this is something that i have thought as-well over years and i never thought they live in homes as bas as this sounds these are things that m any people think of when Native Americans are talked about.

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As a kid, my only exposure to "Native peoples" was through Disney's Pocahontas (and its sequel) and also Brother Bear (not a great movie). My expectations were shaped by these films and I came to only see indigenous peoples as flat, cartoonish, and, literally, two dimensional. I wasn't exposed to more rich presentations of Native life until my Indigenous Film class in college.

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One stereotype that I had about American Indians was that they always wore animal fur and feather headbands. I formed this view mostly from movies I've watched. My views were incomplete, but now I know that they dress like the rest of society.

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When I was younger, I believed that all Native Americans had red skin, probably from the prior stereotype in cartoons and movies. I did not realize this was un true until the 4th grade. This is a great example of how stereotypes impact the younger generation, and if we are not careful about what we portray, these false stereotypes could become more wide spread.

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Throughout my life i have received many common stereotypes about American Indian's. They have been incredibly misleading, one being that they do not pay taxes, now learning that they do i am truly still in aw, i thought they they were totally out of our society and not contributing, yet it turns out that they care for where they live and that they are normal influential tax payers in our society as well.

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My only exposure to Indians when I was young were movies and tv. This is problematic because these films can say negative things about Native American tribes and use stereotypes

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I have always been confused about whether or not Native Americans had to pay taxes. I thought that they had to pay taxes but not as much as others. Now I have found out that it is only certain tribes and in certain areas where you have to pay taxes.

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I thought that all Native Americans lived in tipis my whole life because of all of the movies I watched and books I read growing up made me assume that. I also did not know that Native Americans paid taxes because I always assumed they didn't live in actual houses or even have jobs.

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One stereotype I unknowingly believed was Natives living in tipis. My opinions have been formed by books, movies, news, and other sources. My views were not completely fair but partly true. The tipis are used by the Plain natives.

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I thought that throughout all American Indians lives they had all lived in tipis. My opinion was formed a long time ago when I started to learn about American Indians. This view is not really that fair seeming that most American Indians live like normal people.

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When I first came here I learned that Native Americans all lived in tipis as a home and so that's a project I did for 2nd grade but now I know that not all Native Americans lived in tipis some had houses just like other citizens in the 21st century.

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Up until about eight grade, I always thought of Native Americans as the people the europeans stole the land we live on from, and never really thought about how there are still native americans in our world today. I think this is a common misconsuption maybe because of how history teaches it

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I have unknowingly assumed that the American Indians made their clothes with animal skin, and my opinions were based on movies, picture books, and cartoons. My views are not correct because not all American Indians wear animal fur, and they dress up and go shopping just like any other person.

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When I was younger I always felt uncomfortable when people would tell me to call Native Americans, Indians or Indian Americans because they would then mix that up with South Asian/Indians and I just thought that it was just better to say Native Americans instead.

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I didn't really believe in any of these stereotypes. My opinions were formed by TV and cartoons, but that's all they are and I never really held on to any of those thoughts. My views aren't accurate at all because I never really looked up or researched about them.

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I unknowingly used to believe that all Indians lived in tipis. My opinions about them have been formed from watching tv and movies. My views are not fair nor accurate because I just based my evidence on TV.

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Due to common misconceptions Americans have of the Natives of the land we love on we the country as a whole has a stigma against the group of people. Examples of these false is the belife all Native Americans live in tipis and is they pay taxes are not these ideas are false and need to be iradicated.

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The majority of people just assume that American Indian people live in tipis, but actually a lot of them live in houses or condos.

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All terminology is acceptable but native people prefer to be called by their specific tribal name. I have always used Native American or Indian American. I think Native American is the most common one you hear especially when you're young.

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I may have unknowingly believed in certain things said because I wasn't educated much on American Indians. I most likely learned these things from tv shows, movies, or books that I have watched and read as a child.

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I thought that native Americans had dark red skin up until 5th grade or so. I feel like they have formed due to the cartoony portrayal of them. Obviously, this view was inaccurate and totally wasn't fair because it is just grouping a bunch of people in to a portrayal of them in my head.

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One stereotype I have unknowingly believed in is that most American Indians live in tipis. My opinions were formed from being taught about this in grade school and from movies. My views are not accurate because most American Indians live in apartments or houses, even though the traditional American Indian house is a tipi.

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To me, I unknowingly believed in all Native American's lived tipis, due to shows and movies that have portrayed Native Americans. Yes, at some point Native Americans lived in tipis, but not all. Native Americans can live in any type of housing.

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I always ran into the problem of not knowing what to call Native Americans when put in the situation. I now understand that there are many terms that are acceptable, but that it is preferred to be called by their tribe name. It never occured to me that there are so many different tribes that I should be aware of.

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Some common stereotypes that I unknown fully believed in is that Native Americans live on their own disconnected from us. I assume this from articles about Native reservation land on the news. My views are not accurate because there are people who are Native who live all over the US and live normal lives like the rest of us.