NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN ARE CONTESTING THEIR MISREPRESENTATION IN FILM
“But the cowboy and Indian trope has long been entrenched in the American cinematic landscape is negative, Koster said, where Native Americans are portrayed as whooping, killing bands intent on targeting innocent pioneers. She was determined to clarify the actual story of the West.
“I just thought there were so many stories within Western iconography that we could do a really good job of reclaiming,” Koster explained. While one of vignettes chronicles the fraught relationship between Christian missionaries and Native Americans, the filmmakers also wanted to piece together the missing narratives of other communities of color.”