Bearing Witness Native American Voices in Hollywood | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00When I was a kid and watching movies and westerns, and I would see Native American people,

00:14they were always portrayed as the bad guy.

00:21I grew up in a time when languages were disappearing, people were ashamed.

00:27We all wanted to be the cowboys.

00:30In U.S. history, it was justified, the genocide was justified, and the fact that they wanted

00:36the land.

00:39Hollywood's impervious to whatever it doesn't want to get in its way.

00:43Marlon Brando had been nominated for an Oscar, so he asked a friend of his to come up and

00:47make a speech about the racist treatment of Hollywood towards Native people.

00:52Excuse me.

00:53He had scared the heck out of Hollywood, for a while at least.

00:56There was a lot of unrest in America.

01:02When Little Big Man came out, that was a really big deal.

01:07Indians themselves learning how to better besides just being cast because you could ride a horse

01:13nicely and you've got long hair.

01:15We've come far, you and me.

01:18You and me.

01:20It's only natural that Native people tell our own stories.

01:25It's time for us to tell our own stories.

01:27And I'm happy to see it happening in Hollywood and to be a part of it.

01:32And I wanted to tell the truth.

01:36To change the stories that were being told.

01:42But there's so much more to the story.