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Overview: Indians have occupied an important place in American film from the medium’s earliest days. Indians appeared in kinetoscope pictures as early as 1894 and hundreds of short films featuring Indians were released during the first and second decades of the twentieth century.

In general, the images of Indians in early motion pictures were highly derogatory. Indian characters were typically pl... more

Important films of this era