Bearing Witness, Native American Voices in Hollywood (2025)

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"-the Indian, as they were labeled in early Westerns. Confined almost exclusively to this genre, the Western became a vehicle for American racism, obscuring the genocide upon which the United States was built. For more than four decades, these films glorified "Manifest Destiny" and the conquest of s... Read all

Clara Kuperberg

Director

Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

as Self - Author of American Indian Image Makers of Hollywood

Hanay Geiogamah

as Self - Playwright, Director and Historian

Irene Bedard

as Self - Actress

Darrell Redleaf-Fielder

as Self - Makeup Artist & Hair Stylist

Tantoo Cardinal(I)

as Self - Actress

Ira Hayes

as Self - Participant, Flag Raising in Iwo Jima(archive footage)

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