A great Indian movie. Robert Aldrich and Burt Lancaster really got things right after jumbling up Apache twenty years before. Great Western about the Viet Nam war. Great portrayal of Indian fighting strategies.

One of the most realistic portrayals of early American Indian life. Missionaries visit a Huron mission in Canada in the early 18th century.

I really loved the look and style of this movie. Wes Studi was tremendous as Magua. It was my favorite performance by an actor as an Indian. If you look at the movie from a different point of view Magua could be considered a hero for his people.

A movie about the Inuits set in

Maybe the only Indian movie with no white characters, set in 1797 before the white man got that far west. Subtitles with use of the Crow and Cheyenne language. There are some English voice overs. Great portrayals of Indian village life. I just wish they had picked a native American for the title role instead of Trevor Howard.

A great portrait of how the Sioux lived in 1825. Richard Harris and his character intrude on the movie but it is still very good.

This revisionist Western had another great performance by Dustin Hoffman. I really enjoyed Chief Dan George in this movie too.

This revisionist Western tried to make up for all the negative images presented of the American Indians all at once. In their place as the villian it puts the white intruders (except for Kevin Costner). Wes Studi was great in a small role as a Pawnee.

One of the most underrated movies of all time. Henry Fonda was great as the Custer like character whose hubris brought him down. Also one of the first movies to portray Indians in a positive light.

The middle movie in John Ford's calvary trilogy is many people's favorite of the three. Beautifully filmed. Some people see it as a propaganda war film that is persuading the American people to unite against the "red" menance. Nathan Brittles hands are tied but he still manages to outwit the reds and defuse the situation (horses = atomic bomb). It is an interesting angle on the movie in that many Indian tribes united to fight the whites (domino effect in Europe).

This movie has one of my favorite acting performances with John Wayne as Ethan Edwards, an evil heroic figure. A great story as Ethan pursues his niece who has been abducted by Indians and fights his own inner demons. Scar, the Comance chief, was a great character who mirrored the character of his enemy.

A Gregory Peck Western, in which the unseen menace (in this case an Indian after his half-breed son and ex-captive wife) pursues. Similiar to Jaws in many ways.

Wes Studi is the best actor at playing American Indian roles. This movie gives a realistic an sympathetic portrayal of Geronimo.

The third in Ford's Calvary trilogy. Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne, Ben Johnson and Victor McLaglen and the usual cast of characters.

In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. One survivor, Alvar Cabeza de Vaca, roams across the American continent searching for his Spanish comrades. Instead, he discovers the Iguase, an ancient Indian tribe. Over the next eight years, Cabeza de Vaca learns their mystical and mysterious culture, becoming a healer and a leader. Very interesting portrayal of early American Indian way of life.

This was a nice little fantasy movie where a cowboy and an anthropologist discover a lost tribe of Cheyenne. Nice portrayal of language and Indian way of life.

Randolph Scott was a very good Hawkeye in a very good movie.

Based on the true story of the relationship between Cochise and Indian agent Tom Jeffries. One of the first movies to present Indians in a positive light.

This TV movie about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce from 1877 was probably taking some shots at the US involvement in Viet Nam. Shows the no win situation American Indians foud themselves in.

White man returns to save Indians. I thought the first one was much better. In this movie everyone started talking broken English while in the first one they spoke native languages.

Robert Taylor is a Shosone and a Civil War hero who returns home after the war only to get cheated out of his land. Shosones who hated life on the reservation join him in defending his land.

A pretty realistic and postive view of the Geronimo story. Would have been much better without the blue eyed Chuck Conners playing the lead character.

Burt Lancaster plays Indian renegade (or hero) Massai which is based on a true story. Like Geronimo (1962) suffers from having a blue eyed lead character. Like Geronimo, sympathetic to Indian history.

An interesting story about early colonial life on the frontier. Plenty of screaming Indians led by an evil Tory played by John Carradine. As in Stagecoach the Indians are just used as forces of nature. Another of those great 1939 movies.

Great movie but it just used Cochise and his Apaches as a threat. Still important as an example of how Indians were portrayed in the early years of film.