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Still settler colonial Hollywood: Yining Zhou, ‘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, 2026

13May26

Abstract: This 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.


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