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Using actual Indigenous Americans as Indigenous Americans.

posted 7 years ago by Jonny_B_Lately
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What a novel concept. Was this one of the first movies to actually do that? As far as I can see, every Souix is played by an actual "Indian."

Watta ya lookn here for?

[–] HarlemEagle42 (16135) 3 years ago

What? No, I'm pretty sure Dances With Wolves preceded this.

[–] AP (5256) 3 years ago

Some of the old Westerns used Native actors. Not many of them, but a few of them.