Directed by Gene Frankel, the cast included Stacy Keach as Buffalo Bill, Manu Tupou as Sitting Bull, Tom Aldredge, Kevin Conway, Charles Durning, Raul Julia, and Sam Waterston.
[1] In 1976, Robert Altman wrote and directed a screen adaptation titled Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson.
The cast included Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy, Geraldine Chaplin, Denver Pyle, and Harvey Keitel.
It is destined, certainly, for an illustrious career...where it will enhance the reputation of American playwriting...Indians reached its...fulfillment not in the events on the stage...but out in the auditorium where we were forced to re-examine some of our value judgments through a crack in our beloved national epic of the Old Wild West.
"[12] John Lahr of The Village Voice wrote: "Indians deals with the most incendiary truth: myth being created to justify a lost dream.