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Can you define what you're looking for more precisely?  There are a huge
number of possibilities, and the examples you mention just confuse
things.

LAST OF THE MOHICANS (depending on the version you're talking about)
does include some Indian actors, as does Ford's STAGECOACH, but in the
latter there are only non-speaking parts.  You could include a number of
more or less contemporary feature films that have more or less large
parts for Native American actors, including LITTLE BIG MAN, DANCES WITH
WOLVES, WINDTALKERS, as well as independent films such as POW WOW
HIGHWAY and SMOKE SIGNALS, not to mention several of the voices in
Disney's POCOHANTAS, but a number of earlier Westerns and other films
did include at least a few Native American faces as extras, if not
outright speaking parts. And don't' forget Jay Silverheels! But these
examples of "footage of Native Americans" are quite different from the
footage in documentaries.

Even among "documentaries," are you interested in ethnographic films
that tried to record tribal customs, newsreel footage such as the time
when Calvin Coolidge was made an honorary "chief" or documentation of
historical events such as the Wounded Knee massacre?  Would you want to
include something like Edison's kinetoscope of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild
West Show?

There are a number of books and websites that can give you leads, but
you need to define what your actual goal is.

Don Larsson


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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


We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it
becomes
a habit, because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of
Black
women for each other...
-Audre Lorde


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