The Vanishing American (1925)

Cast

Complete credited cast:
	Richard Dix	...	Nophaie
	Lois Wilson	...	Marion Warner
	Noah Beery	...	Booker
	Malcolm McGregor	...	Earl Ramsdale
	Nocki	...	Indian Boy
	Shannon Day	...	Gekin Yashi
	Charles Crockett	...	Amos Halliday
	Bert Woodruff	...	Bart Wilson
	Bernard Siegel	...	Do Etin
	Guy Oliver	...	Kit Carson
	Joe Ryan	...	Jay Lord
	Charles Stevens	...	Shoie
	Bruce Gordon	...	Rhur
	Richard Howard	...	Glendon
	John Webb Dillon	...	Naylor

Storyline

History, as portrayed in this film, has been a succession of conquests of stronger races over weaker ones. As played out on the stage of Monument Valley, long ago, tribes of Indians defeated the ancient cliff dwellers; then came the Europeans to conquer the Indians. Now, in the early 20th Century, a tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent, Booker. He and his men steal the best Indian horses for their own profit. Nophaie, a tribal leader, complains to Booker's higher-ups, but he is unable to gain fair treatment from the whites. When World War I breaks out, an Army captain comes west in search of the horses that Booker was supposed to have bought from the Indians for a fair price. Marian Warner, the teacher at the Indian School, has befriended Nophaie, teaching him to read; she convinces him that the Great War is a fight for a more just world, and that... Written by George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>  

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