In what ways, might it be said, that the experience of World War I motivated certain revisions to prevailing views of Native Americans – views that are on display in The Vanishing American (Riley)? Or to put it differently, why is the film so “liberal” compared to other examples of the “Indian” film genre?

In what ways, might it be said, that the experience of World War I motivated certain revisions to prevailing views of Native Americans – views that are on display in The Vanishing American (Riley)? Or to put it differently, why is the film so “liberal” compared to other examples of the “Indian” film genre?

 

In what ways, might it be said, that the experience of World War I motivated certain revisions to prevailing views of Native Americans – views that are on display in The Vanishing American (Riley)? Or to put it differently, why is the film so “liberal” compared to other examples of the “Indian” film genre?

 

 

In what ways, might it be said, that the experience of World War I motivated certain revisions to prevailing views of Native Americans – views that are on display in The Vanishing American (Riley)? Or to put it differently, why is the film so “liberal” compared to other examples of the “Indian” film genre?