Seixas, Peter. “Popular Film and Young People’s Understanding of the History of Native-White Relations.” (2007)

Peter Seixas revisits his previous work on the relationship between high school students’ understanding of Native-White relations and feature film. Seixas sets out to explore whether students make the same assumptions about films as they do about textbooks, i.e., that they are uncontested authoritative presentations of the past. Using the films Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Searchers (1956) he investigates the critical judgments students make about these films, exploring whether and when they question the accuracy of the films and on what grounds they question the films.