Indigenous peoples in motion pictures, Indigenous peoples in popular culture, Stereotypes (Social psychology) 

"Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film."--WorldCat.org. 

Contents:
Introduction. The study of Hollywood's Indian: still on a scholarly frontier? / Peter C. Rollins and John E. O'Connor --
Absurd reality II: Hollywood goes to the Indians / Ted Jojola --
The white man's Indian: an institutional approach / John E. O'Connor --
The Indian of the north: Western traditions and Finnish Indians / Hannu Salmi --
Trapped in the history of film: The vanishing American / Michael J. Riley --
The representation of conquest: John Ford and the Hollywood Indian (1939-1964) / Ken Nolley --
Cultural confusion: Broken arrow / Frank Manchel --
The Hollywood Indian versus Native Americans: Tell them Willie Boy is here / James A. Sandos and Larry E. Burgess --
Native Americans in a revisionist Western: Little Big Man / Margo Kasdan and Susan Tavernetti --
Driving the red road: Powwow Highway / Eric Gary Anderson --
"Going Indian": Dances With Wolves / Robert Baird --
Deconstructing an American myth: The last of the Mohicans / Jeffrey Walker --
Playing Indian in the 1990s: Pocahontas and The Indian in the cupboard / Pauline Turner Strong --
This is what it means to say Smoke signals: Native American cultural sovereignty / Amanda J. Cobb --
Bibliography. Western films: the context for Hollywood's Indian.