Offers a new interpretation of the centurylong relationship between the Western film genre and Native American filmmaking.In Native Recognition Joanna Hearne persuasively argues for the central role of Indigenous imagemaking in the history of American cinema. Across the twentieth and into the twentyfirst centuries Indigenous peoples have been involved in cinema as performers directors writers consultants crews and audiences yet both the specificity and range of this Native participation have often been obscured by the onscreen largerthanlife images of Indians in the Western. Not only have Indigenous images mattered to the Western but Westerns have also mattered to Indigenous filmmakers as they subvert mass culture images of supposedly ampampquotvanishingampampquot Indians repurposing the commodity forms of Hollywood films to envision Native intergenerational continuity.