Blue Corn Comics -- The Best Indian Movies

The Best Indian Movies
Compiled by Todd Tamanend Clark and Rob Schmidt
(9/22/00)

The film Indian is pervasive. No Indian reservation is too distant, no native community too traditional to escape the impact of the movie stereotypes.

Rennard Strickland, Ph.D, Coyote Goes Hollywood, Native Peoples, 1/13/97

Nothing will teach history better than an "authentic" film about American Indians, with real American Indian actors, producers and directors.

Paul Apodaca (Navajo/Mixton), Apodaca: Hollywood Tragicomedy, Indian Country Today, 11/30/07

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Native movie history summarized
From an article titled Native Filmmakers, Actors Depict Tribal Life — Past and Present by Kevin Abourezk, in which he interviews director Chris Eyre. In the Lincoln Journal Star, 1/4/04:

American cinematic history is, really, the history of all cinema. And it is a history rich with Native influence.

"Indian people have been the longest running subject of films out of anyone," Eyre said.

In fact, Thomas Edison used film images from a Pueblo village as early as the 1890s to showcase his kinetoscope, long considered the first motion picture viewer.

From 1910 to 1913, about 100 movies a year were made about Native people, Eyre said. Most were silent movies romanticizing the noble red man, yet portraying him as naive and childlike.

Later, Westerns of the 1930s and 1940s used non-Native actors to portray Natives as bloodthirsty savages out to kill pioneers and capture their women.
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It's no longer politically correct to use non-Natives to portray Native people, said Kevin Hagopian, a lecturer in media studies at Penn State University.

And, starting in the 1960s and '70s, filmmakers became more sympathetic in their treatment of Natives.

"Little Big Man," released in 1970 and starring Dustin Hoffman, was one of the first blockbusters to question Western civilization as a more enlightened way of life.

"The white civilization is absurdly portrayed in that movie," Hagopian said. "It's the Indian life that's normal."

But did Hollywood simply swap its old habits for new ways to propagate Native stereotypes? Films like "Dances with Wolves" featured white main characters as enlightened saviors trying to preserve the Natives' dying way of life.

Which movie's the best?
From 2000 to 2002 we polled people to determine the best movies by or about Native people. The following are the unscientific results:

The top vote-getters	Year	Votes
The Broken Chain	1993	7
Thunderheart	1992	7
The Emerald Forest	1992	6
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee [TV]	1994	6
Where the Spirit Lives [TV]	1991	5
The Last of the Mohicans	1989	5
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior [TV]	1995	4
Smoke Signals	1998	4
Kings of the Sun	1963	3
Dances with Wolves	1993	3
Dead Man	1995	3

The full list
The following is a nearly complete list of major motion pictures about Native Americans. I've included my rating on a scale of 0 (worst) to 10 (best). A rating of "x.x" means I've seen the movie but haven't rated it.

Movie	Year	Rating
The Redman's View	1909
Red Wing's Gratitude	1909
The Cowboy and the Squaw	1910
Ramona	1910
A Romance of the Western Hills	1910
White Fawn's Devotion	1910
The Squaw's Love	1911
The Squaw Man's Sweetheart	1912
The Squaw Man's Revenge	1912
The Indian Wars	1913
The Werewolf	1913
In the Land of the Head Hunters	1914
The Squaw Man	1914
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill	1914
Battle at Elderbush Gulch	1914
In the Days of the Thundering Herd	1914
The Gold Dust and the Squaw	1915
Ramona	1916
The Squaw Man's Son	1917
The Adventures of Buffalo Bill	1917
Indian Life	1917
The Squaw Man	1918
Just Squaw	1919
The Last of the Mohicans	1920
Paleface	1921
White Oak	1921
The Thundering Herd	1924
The Vanishing American	1925
The Devil Horse	1926
Warpaint	1926
With Sitting Bull at the Spirit Lake Massacre	1927
Spoilers of the West	1927
Wyoming	1927
Ramona	1928
The Glorious Trail	1928
Red Raiders	1928
The Silent Enemy	1930
The Big Trail	1930
Girl of the Golden West	1930
The Squaw Man	1931
White Eagle	1932
End of the Trail	1932
Massacre	1934
Ramona	1936
Drums Along the Mohawk	1939	8.0
Susannah of the Mounties	1939
They Died With Their Boots On	1941	8.0
Northwest Passage	1940	7.5
Winners of the West	1940
White Eagle	1941
Duel in the Sun	1946
Fort Apache	1948	7.5
Red River	1948	8.0
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon	1949	6.5
Rio Grande	1950	7.0
Winchester '73	1950	7.5
Comanche Territory	1950
Broken Arrow	1951	8.5
Distant Drums	1951	7.0
Cavalry Charge	1951
The Big Sky	1952
Pony Soldier	1952
Son of Geronimo	1952
Hondo	1953	7.5
The Naked Spur	1953	7.5
Arrowhead	1953
Seminole	1953
The Great Sioux Uprising	1953
Conquest of Cochise	1953
Secret of the Incas	1954
Taza, Son of Cochise	1954
Apache	1954
Saskatchewan	1954
The Man from Laramie	1955	8.0
The Vanishing American	1955
Seminole Uprising	1955
Apache Ambush	1955
Far Horizons	1955
Mohawk	1956	5.0
The Lone Ranger	1956
Walk the Proud Land	1956
The Searchers	1956	6.0
Reprisal!	1956
The Tin Star	1957	8.0
Naked in the Sun	1957
Pawnee	1957
Run of the Arrow	1957
War Drums	1957
Tomahawk Trail	1957
The Ride Back!	1957
The Light in the Forest	1958	7.0
The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold	1958
Tonka	1958
Escort West	1959
Flaming Star	1960
The Unforgiven	1960	7.0
The Savage Innocents	1960
The Outsider	1961
A Thunder of Drums	1961
Geronimo	1962
McLintock!	1963	7.5
Kings of the Sun	1963
Indian Paint	1964
Island of the Blue Dolphins	1964	x.x
Cheyenne Autumn	1964	7.5
Blood on the Arrow	1964
Attack of the Mayan Mummy	1964
The Great Sioux Massacre	1965
Johnny Tiger	1966
Die Sohne der Grossen Barin	1966
Navajo Joe	1966
Hombre	1967
Chingachgook, die Grosse Schlange	1967
White Comanche	1968
Stay Away, Joe	1968
Royal Hunt of the Sun	1969	7.5
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here	1969
Little Big Man	1970	8.0
A Man Called Horse	1970
Soldier Blue	1970
Flap	1970
Billy Jack	1971	x.x
Captain Apache	1971
Ulzana's Raid	1972
Arrow to the Sun [video]	1973	9.0
I Heard the Owl Call My Name	1973	7.0
Chato's Land	1972
Apachen (Apaches)	1973
The White Dawn	1974
The Trial of Billy Jack	1974
Chac: The Rain God	1974
I Will Fight No More Forever [TV]	1975
Johnny Firecloud	1975
Buffalo Bill and the Indians	1976	7.0
The Return of a Man Called Horse	1976
The Outlaw Josey Wales	1976
Joe Panther	1976
Winterhawk	1976
The White Buffalo	1977
Billy Jack Goes to Washington	1977
Nanook Taxi	1977
The Girl Called Hatter Fox [TV]	1977	x.x
In MacArthur Park	1977
Relentless [TV]	1977
Grayeagle	1978
The Manitou	1978
Fish Hawk	1979
Nightwing	1979
Windwalker	1980
The Mountain Men	1980
Cannibal Holocaust	1980
Wolfen	1981
Triumph of a Man Called Horse	1982
The Legend of Walks Far Woman [TV]	1982
Sacred Ground	1983
Running Brave	1983
Mystic Warrior [TV]	1984
Isaac Littlefeathers	1984
The Mission	1986	8.0
House Made of Dawn	1987
The Gambler III: The Legend Continues [TV]	1987
Creepshow 2	1987
War Party	1988
Red Earth, White Earth [TV]	1989
The Last of the Mohicans	1989	7.5
Renegades	1989
Salmonberries	1991
Black Robe	1991
At Play in the Fields of the Lord	1991
Pow Wow Highway	1991	8.0
Where the Spirit Lives [TV]	1991
Thunderheart	1992	8.5
The Emerald Forest	1992	8.0
Map of the Human Heart	1992
The Broken Cord [TV]	1992
The Last of His Tribe [TV]	1992	8.0
The Broken Chain	1993	7.0
Dances with Wolves	1993	8.5
Geronimo: An American Legend	1993	7.0
Geronimo [TV]	1993
Spirit Rider	1993	7.0
Shadowhunter	1993
Medicine River [TV]	1993
Legends of the Fall	1994
Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee [TV]	1994
Dance Me Outside	1994	8.0
Clearcut	1994
The Dark Wind	1994	8.0
White Fang II: Myth of the White Wolf	1994
Sioux City	1994
On Deadly Ground	1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale	1994	7.5
Kabloonak	1994
Cheyenne Warrior [TV]	1994
Street Fighter	1994
Windrunner	1994
City of Dreams	1995
Last of the Dogmen	1995
The Indian in the Cupboard	1995	8.0
Pocahontas	1995	8.5
Dead Man	1995
Tecumseh: The Last Warrior [TV]	1995
Black Fox [TV]	1995
Werewolf	1996
The Education of Little Tree	1997	7.0
Jungle 2 Jungle	1997	7.0
Song of Hiawatha [TV]	1997
Sisters and Other Strangers [TV]	1997
The Brave	1997
Smilla's Sense of Snow	1997
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts [TV]	1997
Smoke Signals	1998	8.0
The Other Conquest	1998
Naturally Native	1998
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World [video]	1998	7.5
Grand Avenue [TV]	1998	8.0
Crazy Horse [TV]	1998	7.5
Big Bear [TV]	1998
Grey Owl	1999
The Road to El Dorado	2000	7.0
The Lost Child [TV]	2000
The Emperor's New Groove	2000	7.5
Johnny Greyeyes	2000
Shanghai Noon	2000	7.5
Reindeer Games	2000
Big Eden	2001
The Doe Boy	2001	7.5
Two Grey Hills	2001
The Homecoming of Jimmy Whitecloud	2001
Brotherhood of the Wolf	2002
Wendigo	2002
Skins	2002	8.0
The Business of Fancydancing	2002	9.0
The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat)	2002	7.0
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron	2002	8.0
Windtalkers	2002
Skinwalkers [TV]	2002	7.5
Now & Forever	2002	6.0
Get Goosed	2002
The Lone Ranger [TV]	2003	7.0
Brother Bear	2003	8.0
Coyote Waits [TV]	2003	7.5
The Missing	2003
Dreamkeeper [TV]	2003	7.5
Nate and the Colonel	2003
Edge of America	2003	7.5
Hidalgo	2004	7.5
Black Cloud	2004	7.0
Don't Call Me Tonto	2004
Stryker	2004
Skeleton Man	2004
Fierce People	2005	6.0
A Thief of Time [TV]	2005	7.0
A Thousand Roads	2005
Into the West [TV]	2005	7.5
Christmas in the Clouds	2005	7.5
Kronk's New Groove	2005	6.0
Buffalo Dreams [TV]	2005
Skinwalker: Curse of the Shaman [video]	2005
Sleepdancer	2005
Dude Vision	2005
Miracle at Sage Creek [TV]	2005
Little House on the Prairie [TV]	2005
The New World	2006	8.0
End of the Spear	2006	7.5
Brother Bear 2	2006	7.5
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen	2006
The Fountain	2006
Flags of Our Fathers	2006
Mel Gibson's Apocalypto	2006
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold	2006
Pocahauntus	2006
Mile Post 398	2007	8.0
Four Sheets to the Wind	2007	8.5
Pathfinder	2007
Imprint	2007	8.5
Luna [TV]	2007
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee [TV]	2007	7.5
Turquoise Rose	2007
Skinwalkers	2007
Lost Colony [TV]	2007
National Treasure: Book of Secrets	2007	7.0
Beyond the Quest	2007
Unearthed	2007
Frozen River	2008	7.5
Comanche Moon [TV]	2008	6.5
Turok Son of Stone [video]	2008
Tkaronto	2008
Older than America	2008
The Ruins	2008
Aztec Rex [TV]	2008
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	2008	7.5
Moccasin Flats: Redemption [TV]	2008
Before Tomorrow	2008
In a World Created by a Drunken God	2008
Beverly Hills Chihuahua	2008
A Quantum of Solace	2008
Twilight	2008	6.5
Justin Time	2008
Legend of Secret Pass	2008
Rez Bomb	2008
California Indian	2008
Killshot	2008
Little Bear & The Master	2008
The Only Good Indian	2009
Barking Water	2009
We Shall Remain: After the Mayflower [TV]	2009	8.5
We Shall Remain: Tecumseh's Vision [TV]	2009	9.0
We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears [TV]	2009	8.0
We Shall Remain: Geronimo [TV]	2009	8.5
We Shall Remain: Wounded Knee [TV]	2009	8.0
Shadowheart	2009
The View from Here	2009
Pearl	2009
Some Days Are Better Than Others	2009
New Moon	2009
Palominas	2009
Callous	2009
The Hunter's Moon	2009
Nuummioq	2009
Barbarian Princess	2009
Avatar	2009	8.0
Taking Chances	2009	7.0
So Close to Perfect	2009
Kissed by Lightning	2009
The Wild Girl [TV]	2010
Indian Girl	2010
Jonah Hex	2010
The Last Airbender	2010
Eclipse	2010
Behind the Door of a Secret Girl	2010
Meek's Cutoff	2010
Some Days Are Better Than Others	2010
Even the Rain	2010
The Dead Can't Dance	2010
On the Ice	2011
Cowboys & Aliens	2011
Charlie Zone	2011
Everybody Loves Whales	20xx
Shouting Secrets	20xx
Algonquin	20xx
Ink--A Tale of Captivity	20xx
Native Dawn	20xx
The Color of Lightning	20xx
Rainbow Boy	20xx
More Than Frybread	20xx
Crooked Arrows	20xx
Hiawatha Diary	20xx
Warrior Within	20xx
Retired	20xx
Maneater	20xx
Jordan	20xx
Unbound Captives	20xx
The Lone Ranger	20xx
Valhalla Rising	20xx
Timberwolf	20xx
Breaking Dawn	20xx
The Boom Boom Room	20xx
Path of Souls	20xx
Winter in the Blood	20xx
First Allies	20xx
Winnetou	20xx
Moonhair	20xx

Other noteworthy movies
The following are movies that aren't about Natives per se, but have a significant Native theme or performance.

Movie	Year	Rating
Stagecoach	1939	x.x
Ace in the Hole	1951	8.5
Peter Pan	1953	7.5
Sergeant Rutledge	1960	8.0
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	1975	8.0
The Doors	1991
Wide Sargasso Sea	1993
Maverick	1994
Alaska	1996
Peter Pan	2003	7.5
Atlantis: Milo's Return [video]	2003	6.0
Barn Red	2004
Transamerica	2005	8.5
That One Summer	2005
Hank Williams First Nation	2005
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest	2006	8.0
Frozen Stupid	2006
Australia	2008	6.0
2012	2009

Indigenous-themed movies
Selected movies about the lives and cultures of Australia's aborigines, Africa's indigenous people, et al.

Movie	Year	Rating
Walkabout	1971	7.0
The Gods Must Be Crazy	1984	8.0
Crocodile Dundee	1986	7.5
Crocodile Dundee II	1988	7.5
The Gods Must Be Crazy II	1989	5.0
Whale Rider	2002	7.5
Rabbit-Proof Fence	2002	8.5
Ten Canoes	2006	8.0
Australia	2008

Related links
Native documentaries and news

Criteria for inclusion
To be listed as a Native movie, a significant portion of the work must be about Native people or culture. If you want to quantify that, say a third of the movie or more.

Other noteworthy movies may appear in the section of that name. Note that these lists don't include every movie with an Indian theme, an Indian actor in a significant role, or Indians as anonymous "bad guys." Such lists are beyond our capabilities to compile at present.

Please note that some of these movies may contain stereotypes, cultural inaccuracies, or other content that we don't necessarily approve of. We've included them as popular culture art forms for research purposes.

We welcome input about movies we've omitted or misidentified. These lists will always be a work in progress.

Where to find Indian-themed videos
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If the movie you want isn't listed there, the obvious places to look are Amazon and eBay. For more obscure items, try:

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Articles on Native moviemaking
Gone with the Wind: A decade after Smoke Signals, success remains elusive for Native American filmmakers (4/13/07)
Tim Giago: Few Roles for Indians in Hollywood (11/6/06)
Indians Investing, but Carefully, in Hollywood (4/25/05)
Indian Actors Strive to Be Positive Role Models (12/16/04)
Native Filmmakers, Actors Depict Tribal Life—Past and Present (1/4/04)
Stars Shine at First Americans Awards (2/10/03)
Native American Films Attempt to Cross Over (1/27/03)
Minorities and the Media: Little Ownership and Even Less Control (12/12/02)
Native American Dreams: Native Peoples Are Gaining Wider Acceptance in Hollywood (11/22/02)
The Wolves at Bay (10/6/02)
Coyote Goes Hollywood (1/13/97)

Commentary on Native cinema in general
Diversity at the Red Nation Film Festival
On the "red is green" carpet
5th Annual Red Nation Film Festival
5th Annual Native Eyes Film Showcase
Oklahoma festival of restored films
Gay films at AIFF
Only 11 Native writers in Hollywood?
Runninghorse-Buckley on filmmaking
Only three "licenses" allowed?
Only filmmakers can judge films?
The influence of movies
Hollywood takes (baby) steps
Santa Fe film festival
Intro to Sundance Institute
Why people believe movies
Casinos fund cultural projects
Russ doesn't understand criticism
Tohono O'odham film workshop
2nd Monument Valley Film Festival
Best movies in recent years?
AFI's best Westerns
Best South Dakota movies
Native vs. non-Native filmmaking
Video on Hollywood Indian center
CBS Writers Mentoring Program
New center for Hollywood's Indians
Why take movies seriously?
Tribes to make movies?
Top 10 historically inaccurate films
Natives = film clichés or fantasies
What makes a movie Native?
The challenge for Native films
The YouTube of aboriginal cinema
The best Indian movies?
Love/hate relationship with film
No Bury My Heart for Eyre
2007's movies to see
Film fest emphasizes inclusion
Film festival shows multifaceted Indians
Navajo filmmakers gain attention
Natives aren't stars...but could be
From spec scripts to finished films
Hollywood knows whites' fears
Old-time movie Indians
Superfly filmmakers
Navajos in old Westerns
Playing the festival game
Australian aboriginal film festival
Too many serious, sad stories
What happened after Smoke Signals?
Casting non-Natives as Natives
Studios can't find Native actors?
"Fans" smear Native actors
Need Native action flix
Germans overturn film stereotypes
Dead Indians are easier
Time for contemporary Native movies
It's all about power
The filmmaker's responsibility
Indians aren't supposed to be modern
Top 10 movie stereotypes?
Best Indian = white man
Depowering the Indian
Saving Africans and Indians
Movie Indians = the "other"
No Oscars for Indians
White men to the rescue
Freakin' role models
Hollywood getting better or worse?
Roscoe Pond responds
No good Native movies? Wrong
No love scenes for Indians
Native documentaries: history lesson or guilt trip?
Reviewing Native movies
Filmmakers mix it up at House of Blues
Best year for Native movies?
Great White Hopes vs. screaming hordes

Commentary on particular Native movies and actors
Trejo and calculating "Indian-ness"
Trejo a New Ager in Sherrybaby?
We Shall Remain a game-changer?
Wolverine trailer
Bolivian revolution on film
Justin Time premieres in Idaho
The Only Good Indian at Sundance
Aborigines stereotyped in Australia
Globalization in A Quantum of Solace
Australia's "black fella magic"
Reaction to A Quantum of Solace
Preview of We Shall Remain
CALIBER to become a movie?
Tribute to Floyd Westerman
Georgina Lightning interview
Colombian filmmaker in Columbia
Chief Bender in The Final Season
Followup to Turquoise Rose
Elijah DeJesus as Pearl
Pearl trailers
Pearl the Chickasaw aviatrix
The Johnny Depp controversy
AIFI's 2008 nominees
Female filmmakers at imagineNATIVE
A night of indigenous filmmakers
Inuit in Arctic Tale
My film-watching weekend
Preview of Before Tomorrow
Indians in Terabithia
Preview of Rez Bomb
Sto:lo film of children's book
Inuit film submitted for Oscar
Aztec animals in Chihuahua
Chihuahua movie is stereotypical
Embera extras in Bond movie
Another "Native" actor discovered
Talking about Tamara Feldman
Juliette Lewis plays Indian
Will Simpson gets medallion
Stereotypes in On Deadly Ground
Wassilie helps AISES, Seagal
Yul Brynner, Indian chief
Monument Valley lore
Q'orianka's Hawaiian epic
Army and Apaches vs. Reagan
The first Indian actors
All about Chief Yowlachie
Moccasin Flats: Redemption trailer
Preview of Maneater
Update on Cowboys & Aliens movie
Dr. Quinn, advice columnist
The making of Ten Canoes
Russ reviews Turquoise Rose
Shonie visits Running Indian
Curtis's Head Hunters sucks
In the Land of the Head Hunters
Update on Hiawatha Diary
Older than America wins
Preview of Retired
Pix of the Retired film shoot
Sleepdancer trailer
Beyond the Quest trailer
Honorary degree for Greene
Eyre and Studi film Ridge story
Downey in Cowboys & Aliens?
Mini-review of Aztec Rex
Some doubts about Turok
Beach to play Turok
Director to tackle Indian gaming?
Tennessee Indians in We Shall Remain
Which is the Aztec?
Racist Chihuahua trailer
Indian in The Matrix Reloaded
Indians in The Magnificent Seven
Westerman on Native spirituality
Films from Sheephead Films
Older than America videos
Older than America reviewed
Crying over Older than America
Realizing dreams with Irene
Choctaw villain in Broken English
Comanche killer in Lost
Havasupai in Next
Evil Apaches in Sergeant Rutledge
Havasupai in Next
Older than America's dark secret
Mohegans left out of 21
Kaiulani controversy continues
Chris Eyre does Tecumseh
Preview of The Ruins
Bond film included Inca
Indians in Next Stop Wonderland
Skyhawk writes a screenplay
Indian in Sherrybaby
Review of Seven Men from Now
Bedard talks, sings
Silver Fox in Wolverine movie
Older than America to premiere
Dinos take back seat in Turok
Studi's one-man show
Means fights movie stereotypes
Turok isn't worth it
A Turok for adults
Turok reimagined
Native-themed film nominated for Oscar
Sacheen the "squaw"
Kickapoos in The Only Good Indian
Dances with Wolves in film registry
Cage awed by Black Hills
Star Wars filmed at Tikal
Review of Four Sheets to the Wind
Subtitles in Four Sheets
Westerman and sidekick Costner
Wes Studi in German
Dakota actor dies
Christmas skips stereotypes
Indian killed while movie filmed
Lacrosse in The Only Good Indian
How bad is Pathfinder?
Disney's racism against Indians
Dances with Wolves, the novels
Dances with Wolves sequel
Four Sheets on DVD
Natasha Kaye Johnson, grand marshal
How Hamilton made Turquoise Rose
Creepshow 2 features vengeful Indian
She's hot and she's dead
Imprint wins award
Filmmaker touts Navajo movies
South Dakotans like Imprint
Navajo grandma becomes actress
Great film in the making?
Afraid to admit they're Native
Kickapoos honor Studi
Oscar for Native movie?
Hungry for Turquoise Rose
Moccasin Flats: the movie
The Only Good Indian team
Filming The Only Good Indian
Scene from Cowboy & Indians
Four Sheets to the Wind trailer
Turquoise Rose hits Gallup
Indians in The Simpsons
Skinwalkers the movie
Ten Canoes is tough going
Aborigine co-directed Ten Canoes
The Canary Effect trailer
More on Imprint the movie
It's Turquoise time
Debate over Q'orianka the Hawaiian
Zia the hot spot
Four Sheets on the move
Ten Canoes flawed
Pocahontas the Hawaiian princess
WaPo reviews Ten Canoes
Chief features angry Indian
Preview of Hiawatha Diary
On the Lot nixes Arapaho
California Indian trailer
NY Times reviews Ten Canoes
Comment on Imprint
CSA: Confederate States of America
Reviews of Now & Forever
The Fountain revisited
The Native Keanu Reaves
Was Rambo part Indian?
Sylvester Stallone in tan make-up
Revisiting Dances
How Farmer handles roles
Summing up The Fast Runner
Variety's review of Imprint
Preview of Imprint
What happened to Four Sheets?
Peter Pan: "Voy a matar Indios"
Tantoo drinks and talks
Still dancing with wolves?
Native films and videos online
Cody Lightning talks
Yup'ik girl in first feature
Teaching about Peter Pan
No harm in Peter Pan?
Maya mythology in The Fountain
Dragging dead dad
Native left out of Platoon
The Legend of Secret Pass
The Fountain: Conquering age and Indians
Why Indians like The Searchers
F Troop: the movie?
Capote inspired by Indian
The quintessential Western?
Tommy Lee Jones: Native at heart?
Ten Canoes
Skins: the toughest Indian movie in the world?
Christmas in the Clouds: Screwball Native comedy has hit potential—and a problem
Robinson Crusoe and Friday
Indiana Jones and the stereotypes of doom
All about Adam Beach
Tonto and the "good Indian"
"Marriage or bust" for Disney's women
Indian Comics Irregular

More Native movie information
Index of Native American Movie Resources on the Internet
Ethnic Studies Database: Native American Movies and Documentaries (includes directors and actors)
Native Americans in the Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
Films of the American Indian Film Institute 1975-2000
Creative Spirit film competition
First Americans in the Arts
Western films

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