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Of course, my daughter was not interested in the film’s background. She was happy and content with her popcorn, cookies, and having her father by her side. ” The film begins with a one-carriage convoy racing through Monument Valley in Utah. ” Hannah sees Hopi in everything. Shortly after we moved to the Midwest, we passed by a Methodist church and Hannah called our attention to a Hopi-looking design on the church building. ” Hannah’s comment made me contemplate my father’s enjoyment of watching John Wayne films.
And they ride off together, Yankee and Rebel, to subdue the hostiles. Captain Brittles is not the usual cavalry officer hardened by war. His first revealing conversation is with his beloved wife and two daughters, who died in June 1867 and were buried in the Fort Stark cemetery. Kneeling beside the grave, watering flowers, he tells her spirit he’s finally retiring. “We got some sad news, Mary. George Custer was killed and his whole command. Cheyennes are out. ” She Wore a Yellow Ribbon was adapted from two short stories by James Warner Bellah that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post: “The Big Hunt” (1947) and “The War Party” (1948).
In college, I quickly realized that Billy Jack (see the review in chapter 9) had a lot more to do with troubled urban white kids than American Indians. So when I first saw The Searchers as a college student, I did so without the benefit of a historical context that included the processes of Manifest Destiny and the confiscation of Native lands. As a result, the movie I saw was one in which the lead character had some troubling issues with “the mixing of the races”—the very social problem that had dominated my youth.
