"Awards contenders and strategists are like primitive natives, looking for omens of whether the gods are angry or happy," wrote Tim Gray, Variety's awards editor.
"We have been studying the planet through telescopes at our headquarters and are now certain Mars is populated by primitive natives," he wrote.
In the province of British Columbia (BC), however, there are almost no treaties between First Nations and Canada, because the provincial government believed primitive natives could not have any claim to the land.
Poe's protagonist, Pym, is a hapless seafarer whose adventures culminate in the discovery and exploitation of Tsalal, a tropical island located improbably close to Antarctica and populated by primitive natives so dark even their teeth are black.
A ditzy girl gets shipwrecked on an island full of primitive natives and starts dating all of them.
Consider it an irony of alien disaster movies that they manage to critique U.S. military ambitions vis-à-vis the "primitive" natives of far-off lands (even if none of us and few of the filmmakers know it).
Ex-Coach tells the tribe, as true, the plot of Rambo's Amazon Adventure: a shaggy-piranha adventure tale of Ex-Coach being captured by Sadistic primitive natives while kayaking on the Amazon through Peru.
" Not mentioning the fact that most contemporary anthropologists don't give a hoot about what Professor Chagnon is doing, Eakin begins her piece with an evocation of a mythically brave anthropologist who knows how to deal with the privations of the jungle and the "primitive" natives who live there.
Many critics saw racist undertones in the film's treatment of the indigenous Na'vi, seeing it as "a fantasy about race told from the point of view of white people", which reinforces "the White Messiah fable", in which the white hero saves helpless primitive natives, who are thus reduced to servicing his ambitions and proving his heroism.
