Fish Hawk (1980)

An Osage Indian living in the Ozarks loses his entire family to smallpox and subsequently turns to drink. When he is later befriended by a young boy the Indian manages to struggle back to a life of dignity and sobriety.System Requirements:Running Time 94 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: G UPC: 018713516350 Manufacturer No: 05-51635 Product Description

Fish hawk

Fish hawk is a wonderful movie about an Indian who goes back his people after sobering up. Will Sampson is the only actor who could give this role true feeling. It is the first movie to cast an Indian to be the central character and main star. Worth having in your home DVD movie library. December 9, 2007

Great Movie

I Liked this movie but it had to many stero types. Me as a Native Indian it really bugged me. There are some Native Indians who are drunks but not alot. I liked it but not the stero types. January 19, 2005

very good family film

my husband and i both thought the movie to be very heart warming. it was an exceptional down to earth type real life portrayal of some of the way things were in that era. we do not feel it degraded the native americans in any way quite the opposite in our opinion. June 20, 2003

Fish Hawk

As a Native American, I was very displeased with the sterotyped negative image presented by the character Fish Hawk. Once again, the portrayal of a Native American as "a drunken Indian" is set forth in the yet another film. The usual portrayal of Native Americans in film is that of being blood-thirsty, savage, or ignorant. Films also portray Native Americans as being noble savages, vanishing, or one-with-earth individuals. This film was no exception! Hawk Fish was raised by white people according to the narrative in the film yet at the film's end, he walks off into the setting sun fully dressed in his Indian regalia. The film was offensive. October 29, 2001

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