Liberal Propaganda or the White Man Triumphant?

This is not your typical white-male, western hero. He's married to an Indian woman and has a Native American son, (both of whom are killed by white men), is betrayed by white men (his friends) and rescued more often than not by Native American strangers. In the hardest moments of his journey, especially when at the point of death, the wisdom of Native American philosophy pulls him through, most commonly in the form of sayings from his dead wife and the teachings of an Indian friend he picks up along the way.

There is a dream of his in which he finds himself with his Native son in a Christian church that looks like a WWII bomb fell on it. Other than that, he doesn't seem to have collected anything useful from his white-Christian heritage except fur pelts and a lot of heart-ache. He never utters a prayer (to my recollection), reads the Good Book or makes the sign of the cross. The only thing he and his comrades seem to be interested in is capitalism. The only time their Christian roots do surface is in the face of death - but never in the case of the hero.

The film industry's thought process is that in order to draw the crowd, they must cast well-known, white male actors for all the leading parts. However, for the sake of political correctness (and liberal bias), they attempt to compensate for this by throwing in a bunch of Native American extras and giving them the moral high ground, letting them spout off some great words of wisdom now and then, but not giving them the chance to be anything more complex. In the end, imo, both cultures get insulted.