Mexika Eagle Society calls for boycott of "Road to El Dorado"

 Movie Website: www.roadtoeldorado.com;   Mexika Eagle Society calls     
for boycott of "Road to El Dorado" http://www.mexika.org ; CONTACT INFO:
"Kurly" Tlapoyawa,  Mexika Eagle Society,  e-mail Godkillah@Hotmail.com;
Michelle Melendez,  Mexika Eagle Society,  e-mail Loxicha@Hotmail.com;
Phone (817) 390-7541
 
We the members of the Mexika Eagle Society call upon our indigenous brothers
and sisters to join us in openly protesting and boycotting the animated film
``The Road to El Dorado,'' scheduled to be released March 31, 2000. This
film, produced by Dreamworks SKG, is a blatantly racist misrepresentation of
native culture and history, masquerading as an innocent children's movie.
It is extremely ignorant for the makers of ``El Dorado'' to use the
slaughter and genocide of a people as the backdrop for a children's cartoon.
The film exacerbates every stereotype associated with native people,
including the alleged (but never proven) practice of human sacrifice, the
even more ludicrous notion of native people worshipping white men as "Gods"
(even though the concept of "God" did not exist in any native society), and
of course, the European fantasy of native women falling in love with the
first white man they lay their eyes on.  The story revolves around two white
men (the heroes of course) who stumble upon a map to El Dorado and journey
to the ``New world'' in search of gold.  Once there, they encounter an
ignorant group of savages who quickly pronounce them ``Gods,'' and an
enticing, voluptuous native woman who quickly takes on the role of faithful
sidekick. Then, of course, there's the fanatical native ``priest'' who lusts
for personal power and calls for human sacrifice. This (protest) is about
human dignity and having respect for the history and traditions of others.
In addition to boycotting this film, join us in public protest by expressing
your concerns in writing to the powers at be at Dreamworks SKG:  Call: (818)
733-7774,  Patricia Gonzalez, 100 Universal Plaza Bldg. 10,  Universal City,
CA 91608  ,  (818) 733-7755,  Fax (818) 733-7775,  pgonzalez@dreamworks.com;
please forward your mail to: mefoote@hotmail.com;  jfang@dreamworks.com;
etabak@dreamworks.com;  sbilic@dreamworks.com;  elliott@dreamworks.com;
hbernstein@dreamworks.com;