I remember it was "protested" at the time because it did NOT show First Peoples as exactly angels.
There is a horrifying scene where one of the tribesman carefully selects a clam shell sharp enough to cut off a man's fingers.
I’ve always thought the outcry against US atrocities against Indians to be interesting.
The two most commonly brought up are Sand Creek and Wounded Knee. Here US troops killed some women and children, probably to some extent intentionally.
But nobody ever talks any more about how killing ALL the captives, including women and children, often after days of torture, was the normal and routine practice for most tribes.
IOW, in two cases, American troops followed the routine practice of those they were fighting, except that of course nobody was taken captive and leisurely tortured to death. This is horrible and an utter indictment of American society and history.
But the fact that Indian tribes, as a normal practice, did much worse somehow isn’t similarly an indictment of them or their society.