From Geronimo to Avatar: Wes Studi's path to historic Oscar

Cherokee Uprising (1950) - Movie

Cherokee - Movie

Wes Studi Native American Heritage Month Biography Bundle

Oscar-winning Cherokee actor Wes Studi calls the Western genre U.S. “mythology" built around genocide. It “makes heroes out of absolute villains," he says. "Over the years, what’s happened is, I think people, and especially Indian people, and other minorities that have been affected by the way that the United States of America was built, we began to put pressure on the storytellers of the world, in that, 'Hey, what about us? Did you uh, did you ever stop to think that no, we didn’t disappear. Yo

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