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Many of John Ford's films have documentary-like scenes using Native
Americans as clearly non-professional actors. Most of the
representations--in Drums Along the Mohawk, Rio Grande, The Searchers,
Two Rode Together, among others--are not very complimentary, using the
Indians as traditional bogeymen to scare the audience. It's conventional
wisdom that Ford later tried to "repent" for this by putting the Native
Americans and their mistreatment at the center of Cheyenne Autumn
(although he also provides Richard Widmark and Carroll Baker for WASP
audience identification).

Delmer Daves's Broken Arrow in 1950 started a wave of films that pursued
increased understanding of Native Americans, with particularly
impressive location work in Anthony Mann's Devil's Doorway. Throughout
the 1950s, films like Apache, Seminole, and Geronimo used different
Native American cultures for their settings. By the late 1960s, a
revisionist wave more sympathetic to the various groups began with Ralph
Nelson's Soldier Blue and Arthur Penn's Little Big Man.

--Robert Keser

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From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of ayana mcnair
Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2004 10:48 PM
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Subject: Native Americans in film

Hello. Does anyone out there know of any films, other than Last of the
Mohicans and Stagecoach, that contain footage of Native Americans?
Documentary
footage is preferred, but any fiction anyone could recommend would also
be
very helpful.

Thanx,

Ayana


Ayana McNair
Graduate Student, Irvine Fellow
Cinema-Television Critical Studies
University of Southern California

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