Bearing Witness: Native American Voices In Hollywood

Bearing Witness: Native American Voices In Hollywood

Directed by Clara Kuperberg, Julia Kuperberg

Starring Tantoo Cardinal, Irene Bedard

Hollywood Westerns long portrayed Native Americans as “villains,” glorifying Manifest Destiny and hiding genocide. In the 1960s-70s, films like Little Big Man and Soldier Blue finally humanized them and showed the massacres they endured.