I Heard the Owl Call My Name

1973

English

7.2

♡ 1

50%

Daryl Duke Director

Dean Jagger as Bishop

George Clutesi as George P. Hudson

Paul Stanley as Jim Wallace

Tom Courtenay as Mark Brian

A young priest is sent to an indigenous village in B.C. Canada, there he learns of faith and humanity, as he watches their culture being torn to shreds.

The Young Chief Winnetou

2022

German

4.7

♡ 3

Mike Marzuk Director

Kjell Brutscheidt as Foley

Mehmet Kurtulus as Intschu-tschuna

Anatole Taubman as Todd Crow

Milo Haaf as Tom Silver

Winnetou's tribe is in dire straits. There is a threat of famine as the all-important buffalo herds are now failing. As the headman's son, young Winnetou wants to prove to his father Intschu-chuna how brave he is and how great a warrior he can be, because he thinks his son still has a lot to learn. To save his tribe, he goes on a dangerous adventure.

Comanche Station

1960

English

7.0

♡ 9

100%

Budd Boetticher Director

Claude Akins as Ben Lane

Richard Rust as Dobie

Randolph Scott as Jefferson Cody

Nancy Gates as Nancy Lowe

A white man trades with the Comanche for the release of a female stranger and the pair cross paths with three outlaws who have their eyes on the handsome reward for bringing her home and Comanche on the warpath.

Flaming Frontier

1965

German

5.8

♡ 2

Alfred Vohrer Director

Vladimir Medar as Ben O'Brian

Larry Pennell as General Jack O'Neal

Heinz Engelmann as Old Surehand

Terence Hill as Toby

Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert

Trail of the Falcon

5.8

Gottfried Kolditz Director

Winfried Glatzeder as

Barbara Brylska as Catherine Emmerson

Michael Gwisdek as (uncredited)

Gojko Mitic as Weitspähender Falke

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the Lakota people. Gold diggers, profiteers and adventurers flock to the region. Among them is the hard-hearted land speculator Bludgeon, who tries to expel the Lakota using brutal methods. Lakota warriors retaliate, and soon the gold diggers' town becomes a battlefield.

Rocks at Whiskey Trench

7.4

native american reservation

woman director

Alanis Obomsawin Director

Guy Nadon as King Louis XIV

Alanis Obomsawin as Narrated by

The fourth film in Alanis Obomsawin's landmark series on the Oka crisis uses a single, shameful incident as a lens through which to examine the region's long history of prejudice and injustice against the Mohawk population.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

1964

English

6.1

♡ 5

50%

Adventure

based on novel or book

James B. Clark Director

George Kennedy as Aleut Captain

Carlos Romero as Chowig

Larry Domasin as Ramo

Martin Garralaga as The Priest

Based on the beloved book by Scott O'Dell, this family movie tells the adventures of a young Native American girl. After her father is killed by a malevolent white trapper, Karana joins her community as they leave their island home in the Pacific to live on the mainland. Upon her departure, Karana realizes that her brother has been left behind. She immediately swims back to be with him and the two remain on the abandoned island. Though Karana is able to domesticate a wolf, her brother is not so fortunate with the animals and is killed by a pack of wild dogs. She is left to survive against the odds.

On the Ice

2011

English

6.3

♡ 1

67%

Andrew Okpeaha MacLean Director

Gage Saxton as DJ

Jerica Aamodt as Ellie

Johnnie Kunaq Brower as Nathaniel

Richard Enlow IV as Trace

In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong.

Shalako

1968

English

5.6

♡ 16

50%

Edward Dmytryk Director

Valerie French as Elena Clarke

Alexander Knox as Henry Clarke

Honor Blackman as Lady Daggett

Sean Connery as Shalako

Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.

Black Robe

1991

English

7.1

♡ 10

92%

jesuits (society of jesus)

Bruce Beresford Director

Sandrine Holt as Annuka

Tantoo Cardinal as Chomina's Wife

Lawrence Bayne as Neehatin

Billy Two Rivers as Ougebmat

Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.

The Warrior Tradition

6.7

Lawrence R. Hott Director

Steve Rushingwind as (credit only)

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands?

Geronimo!

1939

English

6.0

♡ 10

Paul Sloane Director

Pierre Watkin as Colonel White

Addison Richards as Frederick Allison

Gene Lockhart as Gillespie

William Haade as McNeil

The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.

The Daughter of Dawn

1920

English

5.8

♡ 1

40%

Norbert A. Myles Director

Jack Sankeydoty as Black Wolf

Hunting Horse as Chief Chain-to - Kiowa Chief

Esther LeBarre as Daughter of Dawn

White Parker as White Eagle

The Daughter of Dawn is a silent Western, and one of the few films of the silent era to have an entirely Native American cast. It tells the story of a Kiowa woman and her lover, his feats of bravery, and their trials at the hands of a jealous rival and Comanche warriors. Completed in 1920, it was only shown a few times before being considered lost. Five reels of the movie were found in 2005, and restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2012.

The Oil Prince

1965

German

5.8

♡ 5

Alfred Vohrer Director

Gerd Frickhöffer as Kovacz

Macha Méril as Lizzy

Terence Hill as Richard Forsythe

Harald Leipnitz as The Oilprince

'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.

The Last of the Mohicans

1992

English

7.6

♡ 116

88%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Drama

History

interracial relationship

Michael Mann Director

Jodhi May as Alice Munro

Jared Harris as British Lieutenant

Pete Postlethwaite as Capt. Beams

Benton Jennings as Scottish Officer

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.

Te Ata

2016

English

7.3

♡ 7

65%

Nathan Frankowski Director

Brigid Brannagh as Bertie Thompson

Mackenzie Astin as Clyde Fisher

Cindy Pickett as Miss Davis

Q'orianka Kilcher as Te Ata

The extraordinary life of Chickasaw Nation citizen Mary Thompson Fisher is given a heartfelt tribute in this moving look at a culture in transition, and the way one woman used her voice to keep Native traditions and stories alive. Raised in Indian Territory, Fisher left home to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, only to find that her true calling was at home all along. From Chautauquas to Broadway and even the White House, Fisher traveled the world performing Native American songs and stories for heads of state, American presidents, and European royalty. Featuring Chickasaw citizens both in front of and be-hind the camera, this touching portrait starring Q’orianka Kilcher (“The New World”) and Graham Greene honors a woman whose own story was the most inspiring one she never told. -TCFF database

Powwow Highway

1989

English

7.2

♡ 8

100%

Jonathan Wacks Director

Rodney A. Grant as Brave on Horse

Sam Vlahos as Chief Joseph

Gary Farmer as Philbert Bono

Amanda Wyss as Rabbit Layton

Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe. On the way, they begin to reconnect to their spiritual heritage.

The Outlaw Josey Wales

1976

English

7.8

♡ 98

91%

Clint Eastwood Director

Clint Eastwood as Josey Wales

Joyce Jameson as Rose

William O'Connell as Sim Carstairs

Bill McKinney as Terrill

After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.

Lakota Nation vs. United States

2022

English

7.8

100%

native american reservation

Jesse Short Bull Director

Bill Horn Cloud as (archive footage)

Edward Lazarus as Self - Author, Black Hills / White Justice

Craig Howe as Self - Oglala Lakota

Alex Romero-Frederick as Self - Oglala Lakota

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.