Its also why the Western genre was forcefully killed off and basically nothing is ever made in the genre, except for "subversions" and "deconstructions" about it ending and talking about how evil the white outlaws were.
Because the Wild West, for whatever true reality it was, was filled to the brim with examples that showed that Indians, and Mexicans, were brutal subhuman savages worse than any White man could ever hope to be. The moment they had the upperhand or could fight back, they would massacre and destroy everything they saw.
The fact that scalping as a concept exists, and is something they regularly did to people alive, disproves any "peaceful" notion of them.
As one example, a movie called Hostiles is one of those deconstruction Westerns. It starts out showing the brutality of the Indians, and from then on, it's a never ending parade of "Indians good and oppressed" and "White man bad". It wasn't even subtle. Every single White character, other than Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike (the two main characters), range from bad to comically evil. It was made by people who hate Westerns, hate the West, and hate White people.
I was so thoroughly disgusted I've never entertained another newer Western made by Hollywood.
Its also why the Western genre was forcefully killed off and basically nothing is ever made in the genre, except for "subversions" and "deconstructions" about it ending and talking about how evil the white outlaws were.
Because the Wild West, for whatever true reality it was, was filled to the brim with examples that showed that Indians, and Mexicans, were brutal subhuman savages worse than any White man could ever hope to be. The moment they had the upperhand or could fight back, they would massacre and destroy everything they saw.
The fact that scalping as a concept exists, and is something they regularly did to people alive, disproves any "peaceful" notion of them.
As one example, a movie called Hostiles is one of those deconstruction Westerns. It starts out showing the brutality of the Indians, and from then on, it's a never ending parade of "Indians good and oppressed" and "White man bad". It wasn't even subtle. Every single White character, other than Christian Bale and Rosamund Pike (the two main characters), range from bad to comically evil. It was made by people who hate Westerns, hate the West, and hate White people.
I was so thoroughly disgusted I've never entertained another newer Western made by Hollywood.
Seen Bone Tomahawk?
No, and I don't want to. I've already heard about that scene. I've seen enough gore crap posted on 4chan.