The sixties Casper comic portrayal of Native Indians is a case in point of prejudicial artwork being passed through the comic strip world. in this strip in 1969 Casper and his toy train are attacked by Native Americans who threaten to commit hostile acts upon the train and poor old Casper who is already dead.
the Indians are made ignorant and dumb not even noticing that Casper is a ghost and a friendly one at that. This is often how one would find Native Americans portrayed in the sixties and unmistakingly one can find some sort of serotype caricature of Indians in every comic strip back then. I am sure one could scan the thousands of Popeye comics done by the various artists and find some storyline of bad war-crying Indians as if this was the 1860's and not 1960's.
These Casper comics done were totally insulting and the gains against this negative portray and stereotyping battles have been mostly won in print media form. The defenders of the Washington Redskins nickname don't quite understand that it was this caricature of the Native American to as many schools and professional sports teams deciding to dishonor the native Americans with this portrayal. When jackasses dress up as native Americans to honor their favorite football team that uses a racial slur then they are pushing back against the push against these stereotypes and characterization of a culture which suffered a massive genocidal generational attack upon it. The Washington redskins nickname needs to go into the same abyss these comic went. 
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