This paper discusses
revisionist Westerns Kevin Costner's "Dances with Wolves" (1990), a film sensitivity to cultural differences
and to the importance of Native American culture and Thunderheart (Michael Apted, 1992), which enters a more modern Indian community. The author points out that Costner still made major errors in depicting the history and culture of the Lakota Sioux tribe portrayed in the film. The paper continues that "Thunderheart" tried hard to elevate the Native American but a stereotype emerged in this film that the Native American is in some way a mystic more in touch with
supernatural and spiritual forces than the non-Native population would be.