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>I'm curious why there isn't more stories about native Americans.
Because media hasn’t done a particularly good job of depicting them correctly in the past. It takes a lot of effort & research to get it right. In comparison writing white cowboys is easy.
In terms of movies/TV it’s basically mix of racism and bias and economics, ie studios going durrrrrr we can’t make that because it would not make money, we need a white leads because nobody wants to watch no name injuns, etc.
>Especially now that media is supposed to be "inclusive".
They are being more inclusive now. That doesn’t automatically mean that there is a major push by studios to make tons of diverse projects just for the sake of diversity. The only reason Chief of War exists is because a) Jason Momoa is a big name and b) Momoa personally created the show, c) Apple is rich enough company that it can just make an expensive TV shows like that for its own streaming service, d) Apple already had a positive working relationship with Momoa due to him making three seasons of See.
>If anything it seems like they are trying to remove any trace of them from the mainstream.
And that’s why they didn’t do show like Reservations Dogs or movie like Prey, right? Oh wait!
>For example changing the name of the Cleveland Indians and Washington Redskins.
Cultural appropriation and racist names for sports teams that have no ties or links to indigenous populations isn’t erasure of any kind. It’s also pretty dumb to claim that it’s bad to change things that have a clear racist backgrounds and history because “but it’s old, you can’t change it now!” With that logic you should keep venerating confederacy because muh tradition even though a vast majority of the buildings and statues dedicated to confederate soldiers were specifically built to whitewash history by efforts of their descendants as white suprematist propaganda project during the Jim Crow and Civil Rights movement era.
