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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2002

American Indians are "gaining wider acceptance in Hollywood," The Christian Science Monitor reports, citing recent film developments.

That's mostly because Natives are doing it for themselves. The most successful have been 1998's "Smoke Signals" and this year's critical hit "The Fast Runner."

Telling Indian stories is not easy, says Syracuse University film professor David Coryell. He served as a judge to help find TV scripts but said most weren't any good. The one he liked "had nothing to do with native American themes," he told The Monitor.

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Native American dreams (The Christian Science Monitor 11/22)