Broken Arrow is a 1950 American revisionist Western film directed by Delmer Daves and starring James Stewart, Jeff Chandler, and Debra Paget.

The townsfolk try to lynch Jeffords as a traitor for working with their enemies before he is saved by General Oliver Otis Howard who recruits him to negotiate a wider peace treaty with Cochise.

General Howard arrives with some of the townsfolk and informs Jeffords and Cochise that the men who survived the ambush and fled have been captured and will be executed for their crime.

Jeffords rides off with the belief that "the death of Sonseeahray had put a seal upon the peace, and from that day on wherever I went, in the cities, among the Apaches and in the mountains, I always remembered, my wife was with me".

The film was based on the 558-page novel Blood Brother (1947) by Elliott Arnold, which told the story of the peace agreement between the Apache leader Cochise and the U.S. Army, 1855–1874.

The story of Cochise actually occurred in what is now the Dragoon Mountains in the Douglas Ranger District of the Coronado National Forest in southeastern Arizona.

Although many Western films of the pre-World War II period portrayed the Indigenous peoples of the Americas as hostile to the mostly White American settlers, others showed them in a positive light.

Some scholars have said that the film appealed to an ideal of tolerance and racial equality that would influence later Westerns and indicate Hollywood's response to the evolving role of Native Americans in the society of the United States.

[9] In 1950, Rosebud Yellow Robe, a Native American folklorist, educator, and author, was hired by 20th Century Fox to undertake a national tour to promote the film.

Yellow Robe explained that there were no such things as Native American princesses, and that the myth started when Pocahontas went to England and the English named her "Lady Rebecca".

[16] It was also presented as a half-hour broadcast of Screen Directors Playhouse on September 7, 1951, with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler in their original film roles.

[17] The film and novel also provided the basis for a television series of the same name that ran from 1956 through 1958, starring Michael Ansara as Cochise and John Lupton as Jeffords.