This 2017 film, written and directed by Taylor Sheridan, is trying to be a respectful crime drama set on a Native American reservation. We discuss Sheridan's mission and choices, as well as the criticism and praise it received for its depiction.

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• Wind River
• Skinwalkers
• Stephen Graham Jones
• Longmire

Additional Resources:

• Wind River Is an Overwritten Mystery-Thriller With a Crazily Powerful Ending
• The Moody, Mixed Messages of Wind River
• The Truth Behind This Year's Most Shocking Film, Wind River
• 'Wind River': Taylor Sheridan on Why He Needed to Make This Modern Western
• Taylor Sheridan: 'The big joke on reservations is the white guy that shows up and says: "My grandma is Cherokee"'
• What’s So Hard About Casting Indian Actors in Indian Roles?
• Movie Review: Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Wind River’ is Gripping, Realistic and Beautifully-Crafted
• Three Billboards, Wind River and Hollywood's Representation Problem
• Why do white writers keep making films about Indian Country?
• Sundance: Weinstein Company to No Longer Distribute Jeremy Renner's 'Wind River'
• Weinstein Name Stripped From ‘Wind River’; Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Financiers To Pay For Oscar Campaign
• Taylor Sheridan Got the Weinstein Company Scrubbed From Wind River With an Ultimatum
• Brutal Crimes Grip an Indian Reservation