Avatar Symbolism in History Class

[Hunter of the Glade]

Watched a video in History class today about the great Sand Creek massacre, in which hundreds of white men on horseback invaded the Native American Tribes stationed on a camp at Sand Creek. The whites had been trying to get the Native Americans to try and civilize for the longest time, trying to offer them education (Grace's school; Avatar symbolism) and other humanly things for the longest time.

Long story short, the whites attacked them. The Native Americans had done absolutely nothing to offend the whites and on the day of the Sand Creek massacre, they tried their best to fend off the whites, that originally were at peace with them. The film showed a lot of Indians fending them off with bows and arrows, (again Avatar symbolism) and devastating music (such as "Shutting Down Grace's Lab") was playing the the background as their huts blew up from cannon shells and all the tribes were driven out of their homeland.

The whites wanted them to re-locate. (What a surprise, Avatar symbolism again). This film basically made me think of Avatar in general because of the music, the Native American symbolism to the Na'vi, and technique that the director used to make the audience feel sorry for the group of people being under attack. What do you think about this symbolism?


Thanks for taking the time to read this, just thought I'd share.
PS -- I got a couple Avatar drawings I'll be putting up on this forum soon.