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The Daughter of Dawn is a 1920 American silent Western film. It is 83 minutes long and is one of few silent films made, along with In the Land of the Head Hunters and Before the White Man Came (1920), with an entirely Native American cast.
The Daughter of Dawn is a silent Western, and one of the few films of the silent era to have an entirely Native American cast. It tells the story of a Kiowa ...
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The opening scene of the 1920 silent film, "Daughter of Dawn," by Norbert Myles. The film was rediscovered and restored by the Oklahoma State Historical Society, Dr. Bob Blackburn,...
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- Library of Congress Selects The Daughter of Dawn For National Film Registry
After screening only a handful of times when it was made in 1920, The Daughter of Dawndisappeared without a trace. For almost ninety years it was considered lost—until it was rediscoveredby the Oklahoma Historical Society. Now beautifully restored and with a new orchestral score, thefilm is an astonishing revelation. The beautifully filmed drama fe...
The Daughter of Dawnis an eighty minute, six-reel silent film shot in May, June, and July of 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma. The film includes a significant tipi given by Cheyenne Chief Nikko-se-vast to the Kiowa Chief Dohausen. The tipi in the movie was renewed in 1916 with images painted by Haungooah or Silverhorn and Stephen...
In the film, the Daughter of Dawn is played by Esther LeBarre. Her character is the daughter of the Chief of the Kiowas, played by Hunting Horse. The two young men who are romantically interested in her are White Eagle, played by White Parker, and Black Wolf, played by Jack Sankadota. Dawn loves White, but the Chief says that Wolf has many ponies s...
On December 18, 2013, the Oklahoma Historical Society announced the Library of Congress in Washington, DC selected The Daughter of Dawn as one of the films inducted to its 2013 National Film Registry, a collection of cinematic treasures that represent important cultural, artistic and historic achievements in filmmaking. Find out more.
Nov 16, 2022 · The Daughter of Dawn is a fairly straightforward tale of forbidden love typical of the silent era, but what made the film so unique was that it was a work of overt narrative fiction starring an all-Indigenous cast of non-actors, free of outsiders performing in redface.
Starring Esther LeBarre, White Parker, Wanada Parker. Shot in 1920 in the Wichita Mountains of southwest Oklahoma with a cast entirely made up of members of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, THE DAUGHTER OF DAWN screened publicly only twice before disappearing without a trace for nearly a century.
