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Description
An ex-Confederate soldier searches for his niece, captured by Comanches who massacred his family.
A Civil War veteran spends five years on the trail of a Comanche raiding party that kidnapped his dead brother's daughters. Breathtaking scenery gives a picture of frontier families separated by miles of emptiness.
4) Hondo
Pub. Date
1953, 2005
Description
Based on the Louis L'Amour story "The Gift of Cochise," this sparkling western has Wayne as a half-Indian Cavalry scout who, with his feral dog companion, finds a young woman and her son living on a isolated ranch in unfriendly Apache country.
5) Billy Jack
Pub. Date
[1971]
Description
Tom Laughlin plays a half-breed Native American and ex-Green Beret returning to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the Progressive Freedom School for runaway youths, but when tensions flare between the students and narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector.
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
8) Buckskin
Description
Wesley Porter, a Texan fur trapper, journeys into the mysterious Bucksin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. Once there, he must confront the demons of his past and navigate the Native's traps in order to bring himself and the young man home alive.
10) Grey Owl
Description
The remarkable true story of 1930s frontier trapper Grey Owl (aka Archibald Belaney) who adopted the ways of the wild and found love among its people. After discovering a world slowly threatened by extinction in the woods of the great north, one man's passion led him to fight for the protection of the land he loved. An epic adventure about a man who had the courage to defend and lead his people in war and victory and the strength to become their voice...