THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN (1920)
The Daughter Of Dawn is an 80-minute, six-reel silent 1920 film starring an all-Native American cast with about 300 Kiowas and Comanches involved, many in their 60s and 70s. Shot in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma in July 1920. The film was believed to be lost forever, not having been screened since October 1920 at the College Theater in Los Angeles. White Parker and Wanada Parker played the two main roles in the film. They are the son and daughter of the great Comanche leader Quanah Parker, the last of the free Plains Quahadi Comanche warriors.
THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN (1920)
IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS (1914)
Written and directed by American photographer and ethnologist, Edward S. Curtis, In the Land of the Head Hunters (also known as, In the Land of the War Canoes), is the first feature-length film with a cast comprised entirely of Native Americans. The film is a fictionalized version of the life of the Kwakwaka’wakw people in Queen Charlotte Strait, BC. It is the first feature-length film made in British Columbia and remains the oldest surviving feature film made in Canada.
IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS (1914)
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