Since Westerns first started weaving celluloid tales of cowboys and ‘Indians’ in the early 20th century, they have acted as a sort of origin story for the United States. “It’s a kind of justification” ...

Speaking previously with Cowboys and Indians, Dern was asked if he was intimated by Wayne on set at all.He replied: “I might have been. But right at the start, he says to me, ‘I want you to do ...

The very first shot of the movie shows a dilapidated drive-in theater; over the soundtrack, we hear the faint sounds of a cowboys-and-Indians Western and the faltering voice of a singing cowboy ...

Since the early days of cinema, Native Americans have been strongly associated with Westerns. The urtext, John Ford’s trope-establishing Stagecoach, presented them as wild warriors connected to ...