ABSTRACT This article examines Geronimo: An American Legen d (1993) as an understudied 1990s revisionist Western. It argues that the film marks a critical moment in Hollywood's evolving portrayal of the “Indian Wars.” It demonstrates how the film reveals the structural violence of U.S. expansion through a historically grounded depiction of Apache resistance and how the film foregrounds the racialized logic of the settler‐colonial system through its depiction of Apache scouts' liminal political position. However, it also contends that the film's reliance on a predominantly white perspective ultimately exposes the structural limits of Hollywood revisionism in representing Native agency and historical experience.
Yining Zhou (Mon,) studied this question.