This film, produced by Dreamworks SKG, is a blatantly racist misrepresentation of native culture and history, masquerading as an innocent children's movie.
Students learn very little about native people as it is.
Making light of the European invasion of our land, even in a cartoon setting, is like making a movie about the Holocaust in which Germans are the heroes. This misrepresentation of history only serves to reinforce and validate the American public's total disregard for true native history. To dismiss it is as a mere cartoon suggests that feeding racist lies to unwitting children is perfectly fine. It would be better for children to learn absolutely nothing about native history than to hear these lies and have to unlearn them later if they have any sense at all. We know how it would make our children feel.