1912 Moving Pictures: Few of the moving pictures have real Indians, white men with their faces painted and with feather head dresses on impersonating them in many of the moving pictures.
Note: the term "blanket Indian" at this point in history started to change. The implication was that they were still "wild" or "primitive" . Indians in the Movies At Pawnee Bill's Ranch They Are Taking Part in Dramas With Pale Faces 1912, Dec 17 The Wichita Beacon Oklahoma City, Dec 17 - Several "blanket" Indians will act for the moving pictures that are now being taken by one of the largest moving picture concerns of New York. The pictures are being taken in Pawnee County at the home of Major Gordon Lillie, who is best known as Pawnee Bill. With the company are Miss Florence Lawrence, widely known as an actress for the moving pictures, and Arthur Johnson of New York, whose face is also familiar to thousands who have seen him on the canvas. The company is camping on Major Lillie's ranch and the Indians of that vicinity are being trained to act in the scenes of which moving p