I am still having trouble about my thesis for this paper. I know I want to somehow incorporate The Searchers and How to Play an Indian in my paper, but I do not know how to make a thesis for it. I have a few ideas, but none seem good enough. The following quotations are the ones that have stuck with me from How to Play an Indian. I really hope I will be able to find some way to connect these two works soon. Hopefully, I will have a better direction for the paper tomorrow after my conference with Dr. Griffiths.

13. As you lack stirrups, manage somehow to entangle your feet in the reins, so that, when you are shot, you are dragged after your mount.

- The Indians in The Searchers do this when shot.

I think these quotations are stereotypical of Indians:

16. In preparing to attack an isolated farm, send only one man to spy on it at night. Approaching a lighted window, he must observe at length a white woman inside, until she has become aware of the Indian face pressed against the pane. Await the woman’s cry and the exit of the men before attempting to escape.

22. In the case of a sortie on the part of the whites, never steal the weapons of the slain enemy, only his watch. Wait in wonderment, listen to its tick, until another enemy arrives.

- In The Searchers, enemies take one another’s scalp instead of a watch.

25. In the event that the Indian village is attacked rush from the tents in total confusion. Run around every which way, trying to collect weapons previously left in places of difficult access.

- I do not remember if the Indians did this in The Searchers, but I think it is stereotypical. Even though it is stereotypical, when I imagine a movie about cowboys and Indians, this image seems very typical.