Farida Haque
1 min readJan 18, 2025

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I watched American Primeval mainly for the stunning views of American expanses stolen from indigenous Peoples.
It just made me angry.
Land grabbers made to look like not land grabbers.
The semi native who sacrifices himself for a prim white woman and her cute boy who turns into a little man taking on survival challenges. Of course he had to die,the white guy gone native. True love between a white waif gone native and a the lady who perpetually had a red nose and cascades of saline? Dream on. Verboten!
He sacrifices himself to get her to her vague husband figure. Yawn.
Remember Last of the Mohicans? Daniel-DayLewis was to die for!
Again, the titillating trope of defiant white woman gorgeous brown man. Mind you, whites are heroic whilst natives are faithful servers.

I love all the classical westerns you’ve critiqued. But my true love? What are irreverently called spaghetti westerns!
Good bad ugly my favorite!!!

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Farida Haque
Farida Haque

Written by Farida Haque

Multimedia artist, writer, poet. “I could not have painted myself happy without painting myself sad first…” faridahaque@gmail.com

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