Offering both in-depth analyses of specific films and overviews of the industry's output, Hollywood's Indian provides insightful characterizations of the depiction of the Native Americans in film. This updated edition includes a new chapter on Smoke Signals, the groundbreaking independent film written by Sherman Alexie and directed by Chris Eyre. Taken as a whole the essays explore the many ways in which these portrayals have made an impact on our collective cultural life.

Peter C. Rollins, Regents Professor of English at Oklahoma State University, is editor of the journal Film & History and of numerous books, including Television Histories and Hollywood as Historian. John E. O'Connor, professor of history at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers University, Newark, is the founding editor of Film & History. Together they edited Hollywood's White House.