Stereotype of the Year loser
Apocalypto portrays Maya as brutal, bloodthirsty barbarians

Stereotype of the Year dishonorable mention
"Zagar" ads show Indian sacrificing animals, shooting people

December 2006

ND Indians live in "pure filth"; rez system is a "total failure" Apocalypto portrays Maya as brutal, bloodthirsty barbarians "Civilized society" shouldn't tolerate Oneidas' "lawlessness" Apaches on horseback attack wagon train in graphic novel Mascot defender:  Harvard "would've slaughtered the Indians" Volleyball "Warriors" don headdresses to show school pride Larry the Cable Guy tells "squaw skank" joke on Leno show Danziger cartoon:  Fake Indians do "Vermont snow dance"

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

November 2006

Dartmouth Natives "on the warpath," portrayed as a scalper Indians are "party poopers" for boycotting Okla. centennial Primetime:  "Excesses of their ancestors" made Maya poor "Satire":  Hooters tribe is recognized, "squaws" wear t-shirts Students taught that Indian means chief, warrior, teepee, pony Not Enough Indians:  Town becomes "tribe" to open casino Thanksgiving celebrates "gratitude, humility, and inclusiveness" Student is elected "Chief Sun Slayer" to sell land for wampum Indians forfeited sovereignty when they became US citizens Museum exhibit probes Iroquois's "mysterious disappearance" Online company's cartoons feature smoke signals, chiefs, tipis Online company sells bogus Indian costumes, weapons, wigs Minn. candidate's ad shows Indian committing welfare fraud Game official implies absent Natives were off drinking beer Casino foe mimics sachem with painted feathers, gold chains

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

October 2006

Recipe site shows generic Indian flipping salmon on blanket Ind. 4th-graders study Indians by dressing up, painting faces Aztecs = reality of pre-Columbian Indians, not Pocahontas Wisc. candidate's excuse for being late is "we're on Injun time" Coulter:  Early Indian attacks were "completely unprovoked" Comic book depicts Tonto as wild man who kills criminals Other nations were overrun so Senecas don't deserve casinos Children dress up as Indians to celebrate Columbus's arrival Flores:  Indians to blame for near-annihilation of bison herds Sikh "faith healer" makes sun-dance dresses, crystal necklaces MTV "Wild Boyz" dress as faux Indians, ride buffaloes, chant Drunken grandfather empowers angry vet as new Super-Chief "Fighting Terrorists Since 1492" t-shirt offends conservative Columbus parade extols "diversity that makes America great" Yeagley:  Columbus not responsible for 500 years of history

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

September 2006

"Tocotl the Spider-Woman" gives new Black Condor powers Activists want to rewrite history, force Columbus views on all Dakota Indians have "never worked," need life-skills training Virgin Trains ad:  Apaches whoop, ride, shoot at passengers New Yorker cartoon:  Eskimo is "retired" to die on an ice floe Sovereign nations are just Indians organized into organizations The Ruins:  Armed Maya hold Americans captive for evil vine County memo claims Mille Lacs reservation no longer exists

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

August 2006

Anti-Redskins movement is "ultra-liberal initiative full of PC" Limbaugh:  Natives too "one with the land" to be on Survivor Colonial woman lionized for scalping Abenakis while fleeing Video game:  "Mohawk Mayhem...When Apaches Attack" Macarro, "henchmen" decimate Pechangas "with...prejudice" Morain:  Greedy "Casino Tribes Try to Keep Entire Pot" Tribes "most often formed to promote casino development" Republican:  Indians "treated equally" can't own Red Lake

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

June-July 2006

"Zagar" ads show Indian sacrificing animals, shooting people PAC satire:  Sitting Bulldozer, Kosher Horse talk like Tonto Fla. fiesta goers don feathers, face paint to honor Indian killer YouTube videos show models with feathers, face paint, bones Western comic mixes Modoc, Acoma, and "Kisani" history Tribal leaders and investors are responsible only to themselves Folks find tribal government where they expected only casino Pirates depicts Caribs as savage, incomprehensible cannibals Milanovich called "Chief Greedovich," compared to Godfather Critic:  Harrah's uses Indians with "tears in the eyes" as pawns Jackson:  Seneca casino is "gambling joint" that'll "suck money" Cartoon shows Seminole as drum-beating, half-naked savage Oprah visits Navajo Nation and demands to see a powwow Maurice and Earl refers to Natives' "sacred animal," "squaw"

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

April-May 2006

Tribes = groups that think "they can be a 'Sovereign Nation'" Dudley George t-shirt shows hammer breaking arrow on anvil Caledonia mayor implies Natives get monthly welfare checks Lawsuit:  Smoke shops fund gangs, organized crime, terrorists Dentist:  Cultures allowing tooth decay "will soon disappear" Indians are "about gaming, alcohol, fireworks, and abortions" Native languages isolate Indians, keep them from getting jobs Indians' "special status" is a failure, causes "social pathologies"

THE LOSER! Dishonorable mention

March 2006

Anti-abortionist Stanek:  "Sioux tribe plans to scalp its own" States, lobbyists, companies are main beneficiaries of gaming D.P. 7 pits mock-Indian heroes vs. Menominee with zombies Veronica Mars:  Indian with shady past owns several casinos McCartney:  Inuit seal hunts are "stain" on Canada's character "Separate rules and regulations will never be equal or fair" A tribe located anywhere could open a casino in Manhattan

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

February 2006

NY Times:  "Drug Traffickers Find Haven" in Indian country "Urban casinos:  Too little regulation, too many loopholes" DNA disproves Mormon fantasy about Indians being Jews Buchanan's Iraq:  In "Indian territory" you "get tomahawked" Student editor calls Indians "savages," says he was "scalped" Beecher:  Unregulated tribes can skim money from casinos Reporter decries "New York's Angry, Armed Mohawks"

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

January 2006

Column:  "This virtually unregulated industry is leeching jobs" Tribes want to freeze themselves in past like museum displays Wolf cries wolf about money laundering, political corruption Stanford Indian caricature appears on frat and alumni shirts In the Bleachers:  Eskimos play b-ball in parkas near igloo Indian gaming is the "nation's largest special-interest group" Spear:  Whites enlighten "rampaging dark-skinned savages" "Whiff of scam" from "fiction of sovereignty" taints gaming Seneca "moneysuckers" to open a "gambling joint" by "fiat" "Defunct" tribes seek gaming via "nonsense" of sovereignty Casinos = shameless monument to cynical minority politics Pizzo column:  "Indian Gaming:  More Corrupt Than Ever" Indians want "$13 billion plus interest" of taxpayers' money

Dishonorable mention THE LOSER!

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