Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western -- Native Recognition: Indigenous Cinema and the Western -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Before‑and‑After: Vanishing and Visibility in Native American Images -- Part I: Indigenous Presence in the Silent Western -- Chapter 1: Reframing the Western Imaginary: James Young Deer, Lillian St. Cyr, and the "Squaw Man" Indian Dramas -- Chapter 2: "Strictly American Cinemas": Social Protest in The Vanishing American, Redskin, and Ramona -- Part II: Documenting Midcentury Images -- Chapter 3: "As If I Were Lost and Finally Found": Repatriation and Visual Continuity in Imagining Indians and The Return of Navajo Boy -- Part III: Independent Native Features -- Chapter 4: Imagining the Reservation in House Made of Dawn and Billy Jack -- Chapter 5: "Indians Watching Indians on TV": Native Spectatorship and the Politics of Recognition in Skins and Smoke Signals -- Coda: Persistent Vision -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.