Throughout the book “The Truth About Stories” author Thomas King makes several references to stereotypes surrounding Native Americans and their culture. King most directly addresses these stereotypes in the chapter titled “You’re Not the Indian I Had in Mind”. While reading this chapter it is easy to see how many of the stereotypes are still being portrayed in modern media and are still affecting the lives of Native Americans. Something in particular which King discussed in this chapter which is still very present in modern media which portrays Native American is the ways in which the people who portray and push out these stereotypes in the media ignore the voices and realities of actual Native Americans. King highlights this best when he discusses Edward Sheriff Curtis. Curtis would use costumes and props which he had brought with him on his travels to stage and dress the Natives that he encountered into what he, as a non Native, believed Natives should look like, in the process he completely ignored the reality of how these actual native people looked and lived. This process of dismissing Natives opinions on how they are portrayed in the media still occurs today. One of the first examples which comes to mind is the portrayal of Native People and culture in the Twilight Series. It is pretty well known that the lead Native character in the movie is portrayed by a white man with some alleged “distant” Native ancestry. It is likely that the creators of these films did this because actual Native actors would likely not go along with all of the negative stereotypes portrayed about Natives in the series. There are also claims that a Native actor would not play the role because it required them to shave their hair part way through the series and they refused as their hair is culturally significant to them. Instead of listening to Natives and changing aspects of the film so they did not portray negative stereotypes the creators simply casted a white man instead and continued to ignore Native voices.