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Get their reactions and quote them in advance advertising. 18 Page 10 Delmer Daves' Broken Arrow, released in 1950, has generally been acknowledged as the first modern film to portray Indians sympathetically and to suggest that Indian life was a valid alternative to existence in white society. The role of Cochise, the reasonable Apache, was played by a white, Jeff Chandler, while that of the malevolent Geronimo went to Indian actor Jay Silverheels. One is tempted to say that Hollywood's rule of thumb in westerns seemed to be, ''The only bad Indian is a real Indian,'' but, whatever the case, it does not appear that Broken Arrow had much immediate impact on the ways in which Indians were portrayed in American films.

There followed a series of Indian wars, justified in popular media through the presentation of adverse images of the Indian, and after that, when the deed was done, a time of contrition and talk of the plight of the vanishing Indian, wherein old myths were transformed. The selections define stereotypes and mark their transformation, and the photographs identify both the things that were and the things that were thought to be. They are neither pretty nor sentimental, nor are they offered as grist for the mills of moral judgment.

Includes bibliographical references.  Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsPublic opinion.  Savage, William W. 15'43'97800497 779111 ISBN: 0806114347 (cloth) ISBN: 0806125136 (paper) Copyright © 1977 by the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. All rights reserved. A. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Page v To the memory of Sitting Bull Page vi Page vii Preface This book is a companion volume to Cowboy Life: Reconstructing an American Myth. Like the earlier work, it concerns the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the twentieth century, and its focus is the Great Plains region.

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