While ostensibly a tall tale about 121-year-old Jack Crabb, (1970) remains one of the most culturally significant films for how it single-handedly demolished the "heroic" myth of the American West. The "Flower Power" Indian
Released during the height of the Vietnam War, the film is widely viewed as a protest piece. Little Big Man
Rather than a martyr, General Custer is portrayed as a vainglorious, "raving lunatic," a shocking reversal of the historical narrative at the time. The Technical Feat While ostensibly a tall tale about 121-year-old Jack
Chief Dan George, who played Old Lodge Skins, became the first Indigenous North American actor to receive an Academy Award nomination. who played Old Lodge Skins