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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 779149" data-attributes="member: 2189">Saw the 2009&#039; film, &quot;The Only Good Indian&quot; last night which is about an native american boy taken from his parents to be educated in the white man&#039;s ways in an institution more like a prison than anything else. The movie is actually based on a true gov&#039;t policy used both by the US and Canada in the late 19th and into the 20th century. The young indian boy character escaped from the priso.....uh school and then was later captured by an indian detective played by Wes Studi who I&#039;m a big fan of his work. The movie is about Studi&#039;s character who wanted that big capture to help him become a Pinkerton agent yet is conflicted by his own heritage. He also was hunted and haunted by a white sheriff as the nemesis who was fighting his own demons of conflict. The sheriff and Studi&#039;s character also shared a history on opposite side of the infamous Sand Creek Massacre.&nbsp;The movie also reminded me of a book I got from the school library in the mid 60&#039;s entitled &quot;When the Legends Die&quot; by Hal Borland and also made into a movie starring Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 779149, member: 2189"] Saw the 2009' film, "The Only Good Indian" last night which is about an native american boy taken from his parents to be educated in the white man's ways in an institution more like a prison than anything else. The movie is actually based on a true gov't policy used both by the US and Canada in the late 19th and into the 20th century. The young indian boy character escaped from the priso.....uh school and then was later captured by an indian detective played by Wes Studi who I'm a big fan of his work. The movie is about Studi's character who wanted that big capture to help him become a Pinkerton agent yet is conflicted by his own heritage. He also was hunted and haunted by a white sheriff as the nemesis who was fighting his own demons of conflict. The sheriff and Studi's character also shared a history on opposite side of the infamous Sand Creek Massacre. The movie also reminded me of a book I got from the school library in the mid 60's entitled "When the Legends Die" by Hal Borland and also made into a movie starring Richard Widmark and Frederic Forrest. [/QUOTE]

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