'I remember feeling so inspired and proud to see this huge movie make such a cultural impact for Indigenous people’s portrayal in Hollywood at that time and era. It was a win.'
There is a Native film from 1989 about a road trip called “Powwow Highway” starring Gary Farmer and A Martinez. It’s a wonderful film that I enjoyed, and I highly recommend it to people who haven’t seen it. However, it wasn’t so much the movie that had a huge impact on me as it was a single performance that moved me. This performance has stayed with me to this day. I look at it when I need some inspiration and guidance for my work.
Shortly after in 1990, when “Dances with Wolves” came out, I saw Graham Greene again. He was playing Kicking Bird, a role in which he was rightfully Oscar-nominated for Best Supporting Actor. Greene’s portrayal as Kicking Bird was for me one of intuition, patience, curiosity, and a quiet leadership that came through his eyes when he spoke his lines in Lakota Sioux to Kevin Costner’s Lt. Dunbar.
Unfortunately, I don’t remember what Native Youth Conference it was, as I had attended a number of them in my youth. But this particular conference was having a private screening of the film “Thunderheart” for the youth who attended, and the movie wasn’t going to be released for another week, I believe. So, we all felt pretty special to watch the film before it was to be released out into the world.
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