History Main / TheSavageIndian

* ''Videogame/LethalEnforcers 2'', a LightGunGame in a Western setting, has Red Indian raiders as enemies in the Stage Holdup level, taking potshots on the player characters with their arrows. There's also the FinalBoss, a Red Indian sorceror who can summon [[DemBones skeletons]] on the players.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' material set on Tatooine casts the Sand People/Tusken Raiders as a FantasyCounterpartCulture form of this, in keeping with the planet's SpaceWestern motif: small nomadic tribes native to Tatooine's desert who raid the settlements of offworlders, mercilessly killing anyone they meet and sometimes carting captives off to their camps to enslave or torture them further, such as Anakin Skywalker's mother Shmi. Both ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' material and Disney-era ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' material take [[{{Reconstruction}} a more nuanced approach]], portraying the Sand People as harsh folk with brutal, alien ways, but who also have a lot of legitimate grievances with the offworlders and are willing to interact with them more amicably if approached with respect.

* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'', in Hao's life 500 years ago, he went so far as to [[ANaziByAnyOtherName destroy cultures]] because they didn't want to join him in his quest to rid the world of {{muggles}}. One of the last survivors of that thinks that Silva and the rest are just like Hao. Which is...really weird in TheNineties.

* ''Film/BoneTomahawk'' attempts to avoid the UnfortunateImplications of this trope by making the antagonists a group of inbred {{Contemporary Cavem|an}}en that actual Native Americans find savage and monstrous. Tall Trees, the main Native character, is a well-read professor respected even by white settlers.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' puts a fantasy twist on this trope with the Forsworn : natives to the Reach, they are bloodthirsty tribal savages with a distinctly shamanic culture that borrows some elements from native american folklore.

* More recent films using this trope make sure to [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed invent some fictional tribe]]. For example, the Hovitos from ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' (although they were manipulated by the BigBad rather than evil on their own), the Ugha from ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'', the Aborigines in ''Film/VanDiemensLand'' and the Pelegostos from ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest''. Note that all of these take place in Latin America or Oceania. Savage Indians in US territory is much harder to excuse.

* Music/{{Queen|Band}}: [[Music/ADayAtTheRaces "White Man"]] comments on the stereotype. The narrator, a Native American, notes how "the red man knows war with his hands and his knives," but contrasts this with the European colonists who waged genocide against his people, describing this as true savagery.

->''"With hue and cry, with hatchet red,''
->''They danced amongst our noble dead!''
->''But when our soldiers took the field,''
->''The savage hordes could only yield!"''
-->-- A '''[[PropagandaMachine Motorized Patriot]]''', describing the Battle of Wounded Knee, ''VideoGame/BioshockInfinite''

* In ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'', Wednesday gleefully depicts Pocahontas and her tribe in this manner when she hijacks the summer camp Thanksgiving play, with a little NobleSavage thrown in. It's at least partially justified as a reaction against the much more offensively patronizing, twee, sanitized Manifest Destiny of the original script in which the natives (and the children playing them) are constantly insulted. Wednesday's version is an {{Exploitation|Film}}-style preemptive-revenge fantasy in which Pocahontas is a JeanneDArchetype reacting to [[DreamingOfThingsToCome visions]] of the BadFuture the pilgrims represent. Whether that entirely serves as an excuse for the ensuing war whoops and scalpings and roasting people on spits...