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Article: Can't travel? Try Native film.
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- Wind Speaker
- Article date:
- June 1, 2000
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For as long as there have been Cowboys and Indians-going back to the first Wild West shows and the silent Westerns of the 1920s-Native Americans have been in showbiz.
Although Indians supplied the main drama and background for the Western film genre, until now Native Americans have had few opportunities to participate in Hollywood's lucrative film industry. In the past, Indians-predominantly played by non-Native stuntmen-were portrayed as one-dimensional, one-line sidekicks reduced to falling off horses and hurling blood-curdling screams, but that is about to change. Armed with their own voice and vision, Native filmmakers like Chris Eyre and writers Sherman ...