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 -------------------------------------------- "Only connect." --EM Forster Donald F. Larsson English Department Armstrong Hall 230 Minnesota State University Mankato, MN [log in to unmask] Phone: 507-389-5501 -----Original Message----- 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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 Love is life. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu