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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8997578" data-attributes="member: 4534">It's perfectly okay if you didn't want to deal with those issues for whatever reason.  But I think at some point we have to simply acknolwedge that there are problematic aspects to life and it's probably best if we just figure out a good way to deal with them.  In John Ford's Fort Apache (1948), the Native Americans were treated in a sympathetic light being portrayed as driven to fight by both a corrupt Bureau of Indian Affairs and a military officer who refused to treat them with respect.  Even in The Searchers (1956), it's acknowledged that the Commanche are getting a raw deal which it what led to their attack on the Edwards homestead in the first place.  By the late 1960s, treating Native Americans in the western with some degree of sympathy and respect was the norm.  (The less we talk about Adam Sandler's The Ridiculous Six the better.)  I joke about Nations & Cannons, but I do think revolution era America is rife with opportunities to tell compelling stories.</blockquote>