Question nine

John Wayne is one of the most well-known Western film actors. In these Western's, Wayne acts in very violent ways, but film critic Jesse Wente says that these actions "seem excused". The reason that Wente says this about Wayne is because Wayne portrays more accurately how Native Americans were treated in the West. Wayne shows no mercy as he kills natives with no apparent reason. Wayne was portrayed as an unstoppable American that embodied the true American ways. His movies did not depict Native Americans as the evil killers, but showed the ruthlessness that Americans showed Native Americans on their own land. Native Americans often tried making peace with these new people coming to their land. They treated everyone as humans. While "Americans" intruded and took land that has long been that of the Native Americans. Americans did not look at natives as humans, but only as people who were not the same.