Tom Colonnes, a Santee Sioux, feels that John Ford’s The Searchers was one of the first films to actually provide a counter argument to the traditional white hero westerns common in the 1950’s. Mr. Louis Owens, a novelist who is part Choctaw and Cherokee, also “believes it is the best Indian movie ever made” (335). The Searchers demonstrates that the whites were actually the aggressors, and how the protagonist was so beset with racism and rage, he was willing to kill his niece rather than see her live with the Comanches. Nevertheless, John Ford’s film also contains numerous inaccuracies; such as the generic Indians…who wore Hollywood costumes rather than traditional garb and spoke Navajo, despite being depicted as Commanches (340). Furthermore,
