Kim, For a film that views Native Americans on the cusp between positive and negative, check out Robert Aldrich's "Ulzana's Raid." It doesn't stint on depicting acts which appear cruel and savage from a white perspective--but tends to demonstrate the limits of comprehension and judgment on the part of an outside culture... in this case one which has perpetrated its own unjust "cruelties"... which the film nonetheless doesn't deploy to raise viewer sympathies. If this seems a little confusing--well, it's partly a reflection of the film's deceptive complexity. Jeff Clark