This exactly. Why can't these supposedly marginalized groups that have supposedly been shut out of entertainment for so long come up with original stories everyone wants to see?
Honestly my guess is because many of those cultures used verbal instead written history causing each tribe has their own variations of history and lore (think game of telephone but through generations and hundreds if not millions of years) so there's no concrete story that everyone holds near and dear like cultures that passed on written history that has less flaws and variance in storytelling (due to translations and interpretation of text) thus appeals to more people.
Tldr; text based storytelling has a backbone/source despite translation and interpretation errors. Stories passed vocally lose their source almost immediately, either through the teller dying, or losing their mental facilities, or not having a plan in the first place so the story would've been told differently by the same person even within a span of a few days or depending on their audience.
They don't have their own stories and have to be planted into European ones.
This exactly. Why can't these supposedly marginalized groups that have supposedly been shut out of entertainment for so long come up with original stories everyone wants to see?
Honestly my guess is because many of those cultures used verbal instead written history causing each tribe has their own variations of history and lore (think game of telephone but through generations and hundreds if not millions of years) so there's no concrete story that everyone holds near and dear like cultures that passed on written history that has less flaws and variance in storytelling (due to translations and interpretation of text) thus appeals to more people.
Tldr; text based storytelling has a backbone/source despite translation and interpretation errors. Stories passed vocally lose their source almost immediately, either through the teller dying, or losing their mental facilities, or not having a plan in the first place so the story would've been told differently by the same person even within a span of a few days or depending on their audience.
Plus Hollywood is too lazy to research non European folklore. Much easier to take European folklore and race swap.