Pocahontas and Winnetou

In the media there is a very stereotyped picture of native Americans presented. Their live is adventurous, they have a close bond to nature and are always dressed in fringed buckskin clothes. Prominent examples for native Americans in the madia are Pocahontas and Winnetou. Pocahontas is friends with animals and for Winnetou life is a fight for justice and peace. This fight is fought with the "silberbüchse" on the back of his horse Itschi. In both cases the conflict between the native Americans an the white people comming to their land is presented. Pocahontas, the daughter of a clan´s chief, is even based on a true event.

But neither the period of time were Rusty lives in nore Keesics´ period are ever reflected on in movies. A guy like Keesic has to worry about having enough food to eat and he would rather have a racoon as a hat than as a friend.