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The American Western and Native Americans: Revisiting Hollywood's Representation of the “Indian Wars” in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993)

The Journal of Popular Culture

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Abstract

["The Journal of Popular Culture, EarlyView. ", "\nABSTRACT\nThis article examines Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) as an understudied 1990s revisionist Western. It argues that the film marks a critical moment in Hollywood's evolving portrayal of the “Indian Wars.” It demonstrates how the film reveals the structural violence of U.S. expansion through a historically grounded depiction of Apache resistance and how the film foregrounds the racialized logic of the settler‐colonial system through its depiction of Apache scouts' liminal political position. However, it also contends that the film's reliance on a predominantly white perspective ultimately exposes the structural limits of Hollywood revisionism in representing Native agency and historical experience.\n"]