The true ending is not shown anymore and replaced with a more 'politically correct' ending,
Really? ...you are referring to him being killed?
“Him” being Bruce Dern, yes. In the original movie, he is executed by each boy firing point blank as he lay on the ground, in retaliation for Dern men’s murder of John Wayne. In the modified version, Dern is tied to a horse then horse gets whipped, starts galloping then drags him on the ground and through a creek and he dies.