As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture ... and Native American tribes had lost it, leaving the world of the West forever changed.

“They refused to listen,” the girls, 10 and 11 years old ... history with Native American costumes and whoops. Critics say the depictions have no place in a modern West.

Most westerns are set in the ‘Old ... native to the US; the first tumbleweed only arrived in South Dakota around 1873, most likely in a shipment of flaxseed from Russia, and reached the far west ...

White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.

In Zacarías’ take, Fletcher’s reluctant negotiator Winona Stephens (Stephanie Lauren Delgado) is Native American, calling attention to indigenous people as part of the Old West narrative.

While the answer might seem obvious — Native Americans are having more babies than everyone else — their population spike "probably was not the result of good old-fashioned procreation ...