The president's second son, Eric Trump, defended his father's use of the name on Tuesday, criticizing an ABC reporter who had questioned Trump's remark.
"The irony of an ABC reporter (whose parent company Disney has profited nearly half a billion dollars on the movie ('Pocahontas') inferring that the name is “offensive” is truly staggering to me," Eric Trump tweeted
“Flower between two streams,” is impossible to twist into a destructive stereotype.
Her name at birth was Matoaka, which means “flower between two streams,” and according to Mattaponi history was likely given to her because she was born between the two rivers of Mattaponi and Pamunkey (York).
The savage stereotype is one meaning, in which Tr*mp is ignorant of in his verbal assaults. Certainly not, “It is likely Pocahontas served as a symbol of peace by simply being present as a child among her people to show no ill intentions when her people met with the Jamestown settlers,” is it? More the case, the stereotype in context of the overall situation combines ‘Indian princess’ (see below) with the savage stereotype. For example, “The image of the ‘savage’ as a Native American is the most popular view of that culture showing that Natives are commonly viewed as less evolved than European cultures.”
Hofstra Papers in Anthropology Volume 6, Article #2, 2011 Stereotypes in Anthropology by Katie Ardrey
At the start of the film the white men on the ship all talk of how many other ‘Indians’ they have killed before. This makes viewers of the movie unconsciously think that Europeans are superior to the Natives. In Pocahontas, Native Americans are viewed in two very stereotypical ways and European technology is blatantly flashed to prove the reasons why Europeans believed that they were more evolved than Natives.
The first obvious stereotype in Pocahontas is that of the ‘Indian princess’. Pocahontas represents the woman who incredibly beautiful but also who is naïve enough to be, “sympathetic enough to the white man's quest to be lured away from her tribe to marry into his culture, and further his mission to civilize her people” (Media Awareness Network). This stereotype is the theme of the movie, although the negative that this presents is not obviously introduced to the children’s film. This typecast of Native Americans shows that in order to be evolved according to social norms one must assimilate into a widely accepted culture. Being evolved by today’s standards means fitting in. Pocahontas does eventually succumb to many European technologies in the movie, and the Europeans are allowed to colonize the land. This being allowed only proves further that the ‘Indian Princess’ took the side of the European culture and left her less ‘evolved’ ways of life. There are many stereotypical portrayals in this film, but the most noticeable is that of Native Americans as savages.
Therefore Eric, since “The image of the ‘savage’ as a Native American is the most popular view of that culture showing that Natives are commonly viewed as less evolved than European cultures,” is what your: motherfuckin', pathetic, plastic, sorry-ass, dishonest, dumb-ass, moronic, apathetic, fake, foolish, bastardized, butt-headed, imbecilic, hell-spawned, idiotic, shit, piss-pourin', pimping, knob-headed, lawless, stupid, shameless, shit-bagged, racist, ignorant, asshole, illegitimate, pre-adolescent, shit-magnetized, pricked, predatory, piss-artist, lying, dumb, deceptive, butt-hole, abusive, fascist, nut-sacked, sexist, two-faced, clusterfucked, useless, patriarchal, raping, criminal, dark, incesting, malevolent, empty, and evil father means — you’re wrong. Shut up, Eric Tr*mp.