I don't understand people calling this film "white savior narrative".

Stigler.....I don't want to get into a bunch of flaming posts, OK? I hear what you are saying and think that some folks over-react to an implication that is not intended.

That being said, I do recall a short part from the movie "Reel Injun" (available from Netflix direct streaming). This film is about how movies have driven the perception of Native Americans around the world. In this film, the late Native American activist and film actor Russell Means comments on the movie "Dances with Wolves" and refers to the character Dunbar (played by Kevin Costner) as "Lawrence of the Plains" (a reference to T.E. Lawrence portrayed by the late Peter O'Toole in David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia").
I understood Mean's reference to mean that the Dunbar character was shown to teach the Sioux how to fight the Pawnee (when Dunbar says "shoot the gun" to the actor Jimmy Herman). I think Means takes offense because the Sioux had fought the Pawnee and other tribes for decades....the Sioux were war-like and quite successful. So, the film's implication that Dunbar was teaching the Sioux to fight was insulting to Means. My personal interpretation was that Dunbar was showing the Sioux how to shoot modern guns, not how to fight.
I'm not certain how this necessarily relates to the "white savior narrative" you refer to, but your post made me recall the film connection related above. I hope this is of some use to you.

Stigler - I agree with you - the 'white saviour' concept never entered my mind watching this movie -

to the contrary it portrayed one white person taking time to observe, listen,think, & learn instead of the usual cliche´movie full of white
people killing 'savages'.

Unfortunately, a lot of modern day people so despise white people that even a white person in a novel movie trying to do good is also mocked and played-off as trying to be a 'saviour'.

It seems white people really can't win;

'Whites' are a race of people bent on ruling the world and taking all for themselves, and when helping, supporting, and giving back, they are (mocked as) trying to act like saviours.

And this is not just regarding movies, but this dual-contrary mindset about 'white' people has been repeated throughout (recent) history and is on-going in the real world . . .

All ironic when you try to define what actually is a'white' person.

Apparently, after the turn oof the twentieth century, if you were born and raised in America, you are white and your country is the real menacing savage of the world, and any good that might come from whites is for selfish agenda.

It's just sjw or Western culture that thinks any Western film with a Caucasian assimilating in another culture makes them a traitor so they think of any way to slur it imo. Both liberals and conservatives don't like that idea, it's weird.

This film doesn't quite fit the "White Savoir" narrative, not as much as "Avatar" does.

But it's still kind of annoying if you think about it too much, because it's a film where the people who aren't white just seem to exist to help the white guy find himself. Which is an improvement on the old trope of the same people just existing to be shot, but still. It was made by the sort of people who'd never dream of making a film about an actual Sioux person, so they had to make a film about how a certain white guy finds self-actualization by bothering the tribe.

People are just mad Goodfellas didn't win Best Picture that year.

They are political freaks, they hate our country, they are racist against white people.
F*** them.

Because all white people are evil racists who committed genocide.