Bearing Witness, Native American Voices in Hollywood

Year: 2025

Actors: Irene Bedard, Tantoo Cardinal, Darrell Redleaf-Fielder, Hanay Geiogamah, Fran Javier

Duration: 96 min

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon which the United States was built. For more than four decades, these films glorified "Manifest Destiny" and the conquest of s...

Genre: Action   Documentary   History