What were the main reasons for Native people being so widely represented in the movies? Some say that cinema was created to film First Nations people; on what basis can we support such a statement?

America was the birthplace of major studio cinema. Aboriginal peoples have always been in the American imagination. Indians were seen as savage, noble, or stoic in character. Americans had a great appetite for westerns ant the mythos, though stereotyped, to be in the films that they consumed.