In 1971 the face of Iron Eyes Cody, the Crying Indian, and the slogan, “Pollution: it’s a crying shame. People start pllution. People can stop it,” helped shape America’s idea of what Shepard Krech III refers to as the “Ecological Indian” in his book, The Ecological Indian: Myth and Hi...

Native Americans in the “Civilized” Land There were different ways of getting the message across, but the views expressed when it came to the different images and texts relating to Native Americans were all the same. Indians were savage people that needed to be “civilized”. It seemed li...