“...And yet he and his fellow native Americans are presented in the film as saintly victims of a Old West where it is the white settlers — the men who built America — who represent nothing but exploitation, brutality, environmental destruction and genocide...”
The indians slaughtered each other and white settlers with wanton abandon.
Only since the late 60s and 70s - when the Marxists were infiltrating ever facet of our culture - has history been rewritten to portray them as innocent victims of the evil white man.
The left has been very effective at making white people hate their own culture, heritage, and country. We’ve been painted as the root of EVERY ONE else’s problems.
Don’t buy it.
For a good record of the red man’s conduct in America, read “For A Few Acres of Snow” by Robert Leckie (”Helmet For My Pillow”), and “Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains” by Stan Hoig.
Not so peaceful, nor so innocent.
The left continues it today by their whitewashing, quibbling and excusing the Islamist atrocities.
Plenty of white conservative and Christians are buying it. They buy it every day their children attend institutional schooling.
Remember! Nearly every teacher in this nation ( private and government) from pre-K through graduate school were trained by godless Marxists in Marxist run colleges and universities.
One of the worst films in that regard was “Little Big Man” which painted a false picture of Custer and the Indians. Of course we should have expected nothing less than that from leftist Arthur Penn, who made the movie. The Sioux were warlike and took other Indian tribes’ land. Neither side was guiltless.