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Did these movies enhance or hinder the advancement of Native Americans?-they advanced somewhat especially when the idea was brouhgt out in public especially through this movie and the trial of billy jack of how native americans were treated at the time and anyone that had different ideas that people were scare of. ex: the hippy generation and their idea of caring instead of fighting and hurting.
Were they an accurate depiction of Native Americans at the time (traditions, i.e. treatment by law enforcement, etc.)? -about traditions it varies with different native culture groups in the US and Canada every tribe or group do things differently and they all have different names for each group ex: cree, snow shoe, sioux etc... at the time yes law enforcement treated people they thought were too different very badly. In the US it slowed down some since then but in Canada it was the same story as how the Native Americans were treated in the 50's, 60's and 70's. ex: welfare, poverty, can't live in the city, can't get hired etc....
As a source of entertainment, how would they be accepted by movie- goers today? -guess it would depend on your point of view, many kids/teens now woudln't understand the billy jack movies.
lets see what else i can add-billy jack aka tom laughlin is the pioneer in independent film making. this is where it all started. in the movies he's part native but in reality he's white in reality his wife Delores Taylor aka Jean is part Native, German and Scottish. He got back from vietnam and was appalled by how the Natives and other people were treated just because they did different things or thought differently. He originally wanted to tell the story of billy jack first but he couldn't get financial banking. He wrote billy jack in the 50's when he married Delores Taylor. so he wrote born losers first and got Jane Russel for the movie, there is a good story based on how he got her and how she ended up working for free that he has told. after that came billy jack and their daughter Teresa Laughlin aka TC aka Carol in the movie was put in the movie. she was also in born losers for one scene as a spectator. after billy jack was made then came the trial of billy jack, it goes more in depth of what happened when billy was in jail, the reservations getting massacred and a very shocking climax near the end of the movie on what happens to the residents of the freedom school. after that was billy jack goes to washington not the best billy jack movie too political for me but it tells a good story. has suzanne somers, lucie arnaz, eg marshall, john lawler in it.
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