http://www.gamesradar.com/f/the-top-7-native-american-stereotypes/a-20081124115245683057
This is a fun article worth reading. It goes through just about every stereotypical depiction of Native Americans in video games.
Personal favorite has to be #6.
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I'm glad that GUN is on here. The game's story is terrible at its core. Mixed with anachronisms, the game fails miserably at trying to be accurate. The game does try to make it somewhat sweeter by having you fight them in the beginning, but be your allies at the end of the game, but their characters are terribly stereotypical. They all talk in broken English, have stereotypical names, and their weapon of choice is always either a tomahawk or bow and arrow.
I actually found an article pretty similar to that which talks about how Native Americans are depicted in cinema. It discusses how the view of Indians as "savage and uncivilized" was repeated in early films and it crystallized the image of "Indians" as dangerous and unacceptable to the normative lives of European immigrants. It says that acting roles were very limited for Native Americans and that most Indians were played by white people.
http://www.filmreference.com/encyclopedia/Independent-Film-Road-Movies/Native-Americans-and-Cinema-NATIVE-AMERICANS-IN-MOVIES.html
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