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A Romance of the Western Hills
UNITED STATES · 1910

A Romance of the Western Hills

D.W. Griffith
racial prejudice forbidden romance cultural displacement adoption unrequited love
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Synopsis

A young Indian girl is adopted by a white couple who treat her almost as their daughter, educating her and showering on her every attention. She is happy and falls in love with the couple's nephew, but she finds the young man with his fiancée, a young lady of his own race. Back to her own people she goes, and her former lover attacks the boy in revenge. When the white boy's fiancée learns of his d

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