The author of this article, Celeste Lacroix, claims that the depictions of Native Americans in contemporary contexts reference age-old racist stereotypes of the Ignoble Savage while, at the same time, creating a new stereotype that she deems as the Casino Indian. In two of my prominent examples provided below, this stereotype can be found without difficulty. An article entitled, “High Stakes Stereotypes: The Emergence of the ‘‘Casino Indian’’ Trope in Television Depictions of Contemporary Native Americans” talks about this tendency towards showing a certain type of Native American, specifically the “Casino Indian” stereotype. As we’ve seen, there is an extreme lack of diversity in the portrayal of Native Americans in today’s popular media, especially in popular adult cartoons.
