... from happening on American soil. They were the great evil that stood in the way of the white man's progress in creating a habitable world. There has been so much written about how Indians have been portrayed in the history of Western cinema that it is a bit redundant to go over it again. Thankfully the new directors mentioned earlier were more than aware of this lopsided view on the topic of ... Indians and created films such as: Little Big Man, and the somewhat recent Dances with Wolves, that show the Native Americans as not one big mass, but ... on the matter). Men were men and women ...

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