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Major Nikon

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2. Native Americans were depicted as savages in his movies
Mon Jun 29, 2020, 09:41 PM
Jun 2020

Pretty much the universal theme in his westerns was Native Americans were good if they helped the white man, but otherwise they were murderous animals who raped, pillaged, and attacked white people at every opportunity. Certainly Wayne didn’t invent these myths, but he certainly perpetuated them. For that alone he shouldn’t be honored for anything.

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