Comments on: 10 Best American Indian Movies Of All Time

By: Knifechief11

Knifechief11 — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:19:00 +0000

There are many, many other films you missed and some on your list are just what i would expect mainstream people to pick!! Why not let Native American Indians pick? The’re list will be quite different! The New World? Are you serious? several of these movies had whites portraying Indians or had other flaws. Where is “Windwalker?” where is other independent films that truly portray us as real people? You do have” Smoke Signals” but where is “Pow-wow Highway?”

By: Uproar

Uproar — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:05:00 +0000

One film I’m glad isn’t on the list–”Skins”. A very bad film based on a very good book. Didn’t do it justice, not even close. I’m just really not impressed with Chris Ayres as a director….not sure I’d put “Smoke Signals” on the list. Cour d’Alene people with Lakota accents, obsessing about Little Big Horn even though the Cour d’Alene had nothing to do with it….because, well, Native Americans sit around all day, making numerous references to Little Big Horn regardless of what nation they are from….and they all live in tepees, too. Sorry, just seemed like a stereotype. The film really annoyed me.

By: uproar

uproar — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 16:00:00 +0000

Another film I would add–”Black Robe”. An amazingly realistic film about the Haudenosaunee and their early experience with the Jesuit missionaries.

By: John Comalatte

John Comalatte — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:37:00 +0000

Are you kidding me…this list is crap with the exception of: “Smoke Signals,” “The Last of the Mohicans,” and “The Fast Runner.”

By: Burnt Swamp

Burnt Swamp — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:16:00 +0000

Your standards for what qualifies as Indigenous films is highly skewed. Who or what body/agency/institution actually picked these films based on the purported criteria stated above? How many of the films are actually written, directed, and/or cast actual Indigenous people? How many of the top-ten films actually circumvent any of the conventional stereotypes of Indigenous people? In fact, “The Fast Runner” and “Smoke Signals” are the only two films that don’t fall into this category. Equally important, how many Indigenous people qualify your film list as “Indigenous films” as opposed to films that have Indigenous-based themes in the films’ narratives?

By: Ziashyn

Ziashyn — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:55:00 +0000

you forgot “Pow Wow highway”