They dance and smoke peace pipes in a telling passage from Peter and Wendy, Tiger Lily and other people in her tribe call Peter, “the great white father.” By all accounts, Barrie’s literary treatment of Tiger Lily, her father, and the rest of the Native Americans in his work is racial caricature, from their nonsensical dialogue or broken English to his naming of their tribe as “Piccaninny,” a racist slur. In both works, she’s referred to as a beautiful Native American princess, the daughter of Great Big Little Panther, the chief of the fictional Piccaninny Tribe in the fantasy world of Neverland. Barrie’s 1902 novel The Little White Bird, Tiger Lily made her first appearance in Barrie’s 1904 stage play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, and again in his 1911 novel, Peter and Wendy. Who is Tiger Lily?Īlthough the character of Peter Pan first appeared in J.M. As the film hits Disney+, here’s what to know about the controversial and racist history behind Peter Pan and Tiger Lily.
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