Native Americans in Movies

It's generally assumed that Indians were always portrayed in early movies as the heavy. When the Whites won it was a battle and when the Indian’s won it was referred to as a massacre. The Indian’s were always the bad guys whooping and hollering, chasing stagecoaches and attacking wagon trains. I used to say to my college students, “Did you ever wonder if they went home after a long day of whooping and hollerin’ and sat around the tee pee and played with their kids?” Many of the film