Dustin Hoffman starred as a white man who is adopted by Sioux Indians in
the Arthur Penn film Little Big Man.  The 1971 production was one of the
few films to treat Indians as fully developed characters and Indian
society as a complex hierarchy.  The story, told from the point of view
of Jack Crabbe (Hoffman), a 130-year-old survivor of Custer's last stand,
attempted to break some of the stereotypes common in Hollywood westerns. 
The massacre of an entire tribe by vicious soldiers at Washita River,
Texas, is graphically depicted in the film, and Custer is portrayed as a
borderline psychotic who ignores warnings about the strength and numbers
of the Indians waiting for him at Little Bighorn.