Discrimination and racism in Old western movies
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joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 04:55 AM)
I can't be sure but maybe Dances with Wolves started to change that perception some.
Little Big Man
(Arthur Penn, 1970) arrived twenty years earlier, and there were others along the way, such as
The Outlaw Josey Wales
(Clint Eastwood, 1976). Such seventies Westerns reflected the changes in social and racial perspectives that emerged during the Vietnam War era of the 1960s and early 1970s. -
phantomparticle — 4 years ago(July 01, 2021 09:16 AM)
The North American natives, indians if you like, are always depicted as bad, brutes and someone who has to be killed no matter what
Prove me wrong
Both
Broken Arrow
(1954) and
Cheyenne Autumn
(1960) depict the Indians sympathetically and whites as oppressors, and there are dozens more movies of the fifties with similar themes.
Those two examples, alone, prove you wrong.
And This, Too, Shall Pass Away -
joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 05:06 AM)
Is it true the indians used to roast white people, women & children included, over fires? I vaguely remember reading something like that.
That would have represented a very small minority of cases, if any. -
joekiddlouischama — 2 years ago(July 03, 2023 04:59 AM)
That might be because they were overwhelmingly violent warlike, to each other most of all.
But the same was true of Europeans, who warred with each other constantly for centuries. In other words, the predominant culture will tend to minimize its own savagery while amplifying that of a subjugated minority. -
LorqVonRay1999 — 1 year ago(July 07, 2024 09:08 PM)
True but Native Americans are treated as somehow peaceful tree loving victims of white colonial oppression.
We minimize what Native Americans did and blame everything on whitey. And, to be clear, Native Americans had no problems attacking other tribes, stealing land, abducting women, forcing them to pregnancy, murdering people without a second thought. Almost every tribe in the Americas was Machiavellian. Long before whitey came along, they were brutal, murderous, savage. -
Foster1486 — 9 months ago(July 01, 2025 10:39 PM)
SO even when the Pilgrims showed up they were and advanced civilization compared to the natives who were Stone Age
AND IT STAYED THAT WAY as we moved throughout the country
The biggest mistake we made was treating them like separate people – How good was the reservation system???
We should have said – WE are here and we will prevail so it would be best for you to comply