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 -----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 ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu