Remember those old spaghetti westerns with cheesy lines, gunfights on the trails, saloon brawls and ‘Indians’ on the run? An ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Nina McConigley was never one to play cowboys and Indians while growing up, despite living and breathing the Western culture. “I was the wrong kind of Indian ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. The traditional western format has long featured the “Cowboys vs. Indians” archetype.

It might be hard to imagine nowadays, but there once was a time when Westerns were as popular as superhero movies. In fact, Westerns were the dominant genre throughout the first half of the 20th ...