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Presenting the Real Russell Means

Means condemns “Dances With Wolves” as “the most insidiously racist movie produced in Hollywood since John Wayne.” Exactly how and why?

Rightfully, we should be given some documentation for such a sweeping indictment of a film that took the viewpoint of American Indians, featured them in sympathetic roles and contained more dialogue in native tongue than anything I can remember in more than six decades of moviegoing.

DAVID R. MOSS

Los Angeles

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