There are plenty of great motion pictures that spotlight the native experience and do so in incredibly nuanced ways, leading to some of the best western ... best movies about Native Americans.

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In a departure from the traditional Western genre ... Horizon: An American Saga – Chapter 1, aims to illuminate the complex and often misrepresented experiences of Native Americans.

Especially in the first half of the roughly 130 years that Americans have been going to the movies, many westerns reduced the complexities of 19th-century life to a conflict between Native ...

With the advent of movies, Westerns gained a new lease on life with cowboy heroes galore. However, all the Westerns tended to be overwhelmingly one-sided, portraying Native Americans as ...

It's set in 1859 and has a few vivid characters, from settlers to Native Americans ... Western is its pleasingly mythic, rounded storytelling. On that score, though, “Horizon” is not the movie ...