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How historically accurate is the movie 'The Revenant'

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====Cultural accuracy====
The motion picture’s director and the cast were determined worked hard to ensure that portray the Native American tribes were people in the movie accurately portrayed. It hired a number of Native Americans as consultants , particularly those from the Pawnee and Arikara tribes. This effort ensured that the customs and the practices of the Native Americans in the movie are largely accurate. They are even able to speak in the The movie in had actors who spoke the Arikara and Pawnee language. The way of life of the frontiersmen is also very accurate. Iñárritu’s movie really captures the dress, guns, boats , and other features of the people who lived in the West in the 1820s.  One of the most controversial features of The Revenant was the portrayal of French-Canadian trappers. In the movie, a band of French hunters is was shown as raping a Native American woman and also killing an innocent man. While many French-Canadians did commit atrocities in the West, in general they often had good positive relations with themNative Americans. They were more likely to trade with the Native Americans than English speakers and typically did not seek try to take seize the land of the Arikara and other tribes. Indeed, the French-speaking trappers were considered to be much more tolerant of Native American culture and practices than English-speaking settlers, hunters and trappers.<ref>Hine, p. 213</ref>
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