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Show INDIANS SEEK ROLE IN FILMS More than 1,000 Navajos rode for many miles to apply for Jobs In "Fort Apache," when word ot around that John Ford was rriak- ing this picture in pH I iireoipie Monument Valley, Utah. InHpir'd by Corner's reekl'-MH last stand, this pii tun: called for hundreds of Aparhe Indians to battle U. H. cavalrymen. Although the N'avajos, America's Amer-ica's biggeat Indian tribe, have appeared ap-peared in many pictures, usually made, up to represent Apaches, they have no opportunity to h-e these pictures. Their isolation, some 200 mlli-s from the railroad at Flagstaff, Ariz., is ho great that they remain the least influenced by the culture of the white man. Less than one in five speaks English. Director Ford had trouble with the Indians, when he wanted to use doubles for them In some of the more dangerous stunts. This they refused, as an affront. They explained that Navajos have been practicing Just such stunts since the first movie company went on their reservation some 25 years ago. |