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Stereotype of the Month Contest
2001's losers


December 2001
Nevada brothel is named Crazy Horse Resort and Spa
Mr. Boffo implies igloos are poorly designed for the cold
Bizarro shows Plains Indians ignoring oncoming traffic
Skater dances "Last of the Mohicans" in a skimpy outfit
Professor teaches Blackfeet culture by playing dress-up
Gun-toting whites call Klamath Indians "sucker lovers"
Environmentalists use tribes to oppose Alaska oil drilling
Kay:  Indians are preserving "hunter-gatherer traditions"
Test depicts Iroquois living in past, shows sacred masks
NM principal labels mobile Navajo students "gypsies"
Senator calls 16,000 artifacts "a handful of arrowheads"
Facemaker Inc. sells badly caricatured Indian costumes
Comanche proud to be a mascot, says "Call me savage!"
Students learn Indians led boring lives without technology







THE LOSER!




Dishonorable mention

November 2001
Falling down in a casino proves rez is "a different world"
West Wing shows Native leader acting like a stoic chief
Columnist:  Europeans didn't kill Indians for their land
Quebec official's rationale:  "We didn't scalp anybody"
Complete Sportwear Inc. sells "Indian Mascot Costume"
Minn. editorialist thinks "red skin" is onion or girl's blush
Ida. editorial:  Whites let Indians "maintain their culture"


Dishonorable mention



THE LOSER!

October 2001
Herman blames Indians on "warpath" for wounded man
Judge says Texas tribes are "associations" like sororities
Claim:  "If Indians come...there goes the neighborhood"
Ariz. Wigwam Motel offers teepee rooms on Hopi Road
Herman mixes Plains Indian, Apache, and archery contest
Anti-Indian groups claim treaties, sovereignty are invalid
Gossip columnist Liz Smith says Tecumseh was a terrorist
Native union carpenters called "wagon burner" and "chief"
Dennis the Menace shows Eskimo kid with parka, igloo
Fighting Sioux t-shirt shows an Indian mating with a buffalo
Researcher claims Hopi and Kokopelli have Hindu origin
Powwow vendor sells tomahawks, drums, princess dolls
Students paint "Scalp 'em," tomahawk on school grounds
Dishonorable mention



THE LOSER!






September 2001
Kan. football news:  "Redskins buried at Burial Grounds"
Mi'kmaq singer censored for criticizing two tribal chiefs
Flag-waving "patriots" tell Alexie to return to his country
Native doll is blue-eyed Barbie with guinea hen feathers
Comanche columnist:  Mascots "should remain forever"
Choctaw woman called "faggot Arab" after 9/11 attacks
Denver Post:  Columbus-led genocide is a "narrow view"
Aussie column:  "Purported" tribes are seeking recognition
Indian Affairs Minister:  No proof of racism in Canada




THE LOSER!



Dishonorable mention

August 2001
Washington Times:  Mascot foe is "running a race hustle"
School for cultural destruction is nominated as a landmark
Baltimore Sun column:  Team names are the "wrong battle"
JAMA article:  Yupik elders retreat to the wilderness to die
NC lawmaker:  White Christians made the country great
Church flyer:  "Indian Uprising!" "Savages" on "warpath"
Miami Herald column:  Seminoles are "pseudo-sovereign"
Date application threatens "Native American ant torture"
Video-game Indian has wigwam and "big heap magic" pool
SD school refuses to change script about warring tribes
Detroit News:  Native casinos are "slot machine welfare"
Domain name search equates "mikmaq" and "red-indian"
"Killer" juvenile boot camps are named after vision quest
Dishonorable mention



THE LOSER!








July 2001
Thanksgiving script has Indian in headdress saying "ugh"
Savage Arms uses Savage Indian Head logo to sell guns
Ancient humans are accused of "slaughtering whole species"
Columnist:  Native advocacy is "a thorough-going racket"
Tract portrays drunk Indians needing Christ for salvation
Professor uses Custer poster to recruit against the Sioux
Book:  A. Jackson had to relocate Indians to save them
Indian inmates called members of Warrior Society gang
Looking Horse:  Navajo foes have a "disease of the mind"
Newspapers write about a "traditional Navajo Sundance"



Dishonorable mention
THE LOSER!





June 2001
Beer company suggests Atlanteans built Wisc. mounds
Coach claims rez kids stay for the "government check"
White juries treat Natives like Indians seen on television
Norton says Gwich'in can choose "subsistence lifestyle"
Comic book shows Indians scalping and raping whites
Oklahoma Indian store is accused of unfair competition
Indians questioned about money when they enter Canada
Detroit tricentennial ignores the millennia of Native history
Studies claim indigenous people were mass murderers
TV show's Native predicts his wife will "tom-tom" his butt
Card clubs say Indian casinos are an ethnic monopoly
Comanche character in new novel speaks Tonto-style


THE LOSER!

Dishonorable mention







April-May 2001
Company sells tribal drinks using "Medicine Man" label
Mashantucket Pequot boys treated differently at school
Kan. newspaper headline:  "Orioles gun down Indians"
Herman shows an Indian chief brandishing human skulls
Ga. columnist compares Indian mascots to birds, snakes
Website seeks to disprove the "magic" of ethnic weapons
Op-ed piece claims Indians weren't forced to assimilate
Idaho businessmen wear headdresses to "honor" Indians
Columnist says Indian activists are "whiners" and "fusspots"






THE LOSER!

Dishonorable mention

March 2001
Doll website sells dolls labeled "exotic Native princesses"
Professor says Indians rely on "victimhood," "white guilt"
Three Montana legislators call Indian reservations "ghettos"
Mass. officials question Pequots for not pledging allegiance
NY mayor bans city workers from Oneida Nation firms
School map labels the US and Canada "Anglo America"
Website costumes people as Sitting Bull and Pocahontas
Canadian chief says alcoholism is common among chiefs
Mass. professor says Indian "savages" should be grateful






Dishonorable mention

THE LOSER!

January-February 2001
NC Times calls Pechanga Webmaster a "cyber-shaman"
Ottawa News claims "treaties...have little relevance" today
Student yells "prairie niggers" at an Indian basketball game
Washington Post repeats "ruthless," "greedy" Indian slurs
Play presents a phony "chief" trying to open an Indian casino
"Native wedding" uses "love flute," peyote, and buckskins
Report:  Police are twice as likely to search Native motorists
Book:  Indians hold "special place in politically correct hearts"
All My Children uses a sage ceremony to scare away spirits
Raleigh book glorifies Indian treachery, cruelty, cannibalism
"First Americans" Rose Parade float features giant headdress

THE LOSER!



Dishonorable mention





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