[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Most of this American Indian revisionist history began in the late 1960s and increased after the 1973 takeover at Wounded Knee.

Two of the worst movies, fun to watch but totally inaccurate, were LITTLE BIG MAN and the horrid SOLDIER BLUE.

After 1973, the American Indian could do no wrong. Movies about modern Indians showed them to have a sixth sense about nearly everything, and showed the evil White Man to be stupid. Older movies were recut to make the Indians look better. I remember seeing THE WAR WAGON on TV out of Tulsa Oklahoma. When Howard Keel says “Dumb Indians!” the sound goes off.
Anyone remember the Mazola Margarine commercials from that time?
In the early 1980s OETA, out of OKC, put on a series called IMAGES OF INDIANS, about how Hollywood has portrayed the Indians. at one point in the program they talk about Indians torturing, and one young man breaks in and says..”That’s not so! Indians NEVER did anything like that!” But the did!
About that time, National Geographic published a dig in which they found the bones of a white woman who had been scalped in the late 1500s. Letters to the editor claimed it to be false, but NG then mentioned how proof of scalping had been found in the past. NG had earlier published engravings by Theodor de Bry showing Indians dancing over the scalps and cut off limbs of their enemies.

Anyone who doubts should look at Massacre at Crow Creek, long before the evil White Man came.
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Da*n! Now you got me started!

[TADSLOS]

They weren't called savages for nothing.

Now, they just scalp palefaces at the casinos.

[MileHi]

LITTLE BIG MAN

It’s odd how that movie NEVER shows up on cable TV.

[Elsie]

Where they are coming from: (Ashland) http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/frameset_reset.html?http://www.nebraskastudies.org/0200/stories/0201_0122.html

For one thing, you would be the only human being in the landscape.

Humans had not yet evolved, and so animals dominated a landscape covered with sub-tropical grasses and patches of jungle.

 

 

 

 

Many American Indian people are very concerned about the respectful treatment of human remains. At Crow Creek, Native American holy people conducted ceremonies honoring the dead. Indian people worked as both excavators and guards at the site.

 

 

NOW there are some!