'The Revenant' and the Dark History of Scalping
'The Revenant' and the Dark History of Scalping Sure, everyone scalped. But there were those who were compensated for the bloody act and those who have to carry the stereotypical legacy. Twentieth Century Fox Through a Native Lens is a column from film critic and citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Shea Vassar, who will dive into the nuance of cinema’s best and worst cases of Indigenous representation. This entry looks at the truth about scalping and how that’s depicted in The Revenant. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant(2015) is a brutal look at survival in the 19th...
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