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Movies of the Pacific Northwest (U.S.)

By moviejourneys On August 7, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest
Apart from In the Land of the War Canoes (1914), and the closing scenes of Dead Man (1970), I could find no Hollywood movies with scenes of life among the Indians of today’s Oregon and Washington State.  See Indigenous Canada, for the 1914 film, and Revisionist Westerns for the one from 1970. The two films below, set [...]
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Movies of the Southwest

By moviejourneys On July 12, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest, Uncategorized
During several years of bookings at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque, I made visits to the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and modern Pueblo sites such as Chaco, Taos, Acoma, Kuaua and others. My goal was to acquire an outsider’s understanding of what tribes trace their roots to the ancient pueblos and which of [...]
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John Ford’s Classic Westerns

By moviejourneys On March 17, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest
A place of tarnished honor in this segment of MovieJourneys goes to the collaborations of director John Ford and American icon, John Wayne. Both men hit early career milestones in the signal year of 1939 with their black-and-white film, Stagecoach, and neither of them won an Academy Award for what is today a classic Western. [...]
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The Geronimo Movies

By moviejourneys On March 17, 2014 · Add Comment · In North America, Southwest & Northwest, Uncategorized
Traveling through the picturesque desolation of the Southwest United States, it’s easy to understand why Congress saw fit to push what was left of the Native American population into this region. Nobody else wanted it. The Apache people had the unenviable position as the last hold-outs against settlement on reservations. Their story is most often told [...]
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