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    Now Starring In Children's Cartoons: Authentic Indigenous Characters

    An Alaska Native girl (Molly of Denali), an Andean boy (Pachamama), two half-brothers in Mesoamerica (Victor and Valentino): Three new animations feature Native people without bygone-era baggage.
    by Mandalit del Barco Jul 17, 2019 3 minutes
    In the PBS program <em>Molly of Denali</em>, Alaska Native Molly Mabray helps her mom run a trading post in an Alaskan village.

    For decades, animated children's stories included negative stereotypes of Indigenous people.

    There was Disney's Pocahontas, which presented the daughter of a Powhatan chief in a romantic love story with Captain John Smith. Crystal Echo Hawk, CEO of the media watchdog group IllumiNative, says it was a false narrative about a girl who in reality was "taken by force and sexually assaulted."

    There was Tiger Lily in the classic film , the princess of the "Piccaninny" tribe who smoked a peace pipe and spoke in

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