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White boy and Native American boy


Vague details: I seen this film in my US History class. Don’t know exactly what it was about but I remember the white boy’s Mother and father traveling with their baby, and it ends up dying. Also the Native boy and White body didn’t get along at first.

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Hello cuddlebunny,
do you remember where the movie was set, e.g. in Southern America? If that was the case, maybe this is the one you are looking for:
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991, dir. Hector Babenco), starring Niilo Kivirinta -unfortionately this seems to have been his only appearance- playing the white boy; his parents were working as missionaries, as far as I recall; and in the movie it took "Billy Quarrier" a time to get along with the Native (Amazonas indio) boys - another coincidence would be that "Billy" eventually dies (from fever, I think).
Kind regards
Andreas (123all4me)

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