What was this old western—with an interlude with an old (white) woman who living with Indians?

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I wonder if someone could help me ID a western that I’m half-remembering…color, 50s or 60s (I think), and not “The Searchers.” I think Quanah Parker might be a character, or at least mentioned, but I’m not sure.

A couple of cowboys are stopping by an Indian settlement for some reason (I have no idea which nation, or even the region), and happen to meet with an old white lady who was living with them. She’d either been captured, rescued, or run off the join them when she was younger—she’d apparently made a life there, and had a family, and said she didn’t want to “go back.” Possibly because it might upset relatives who’d already mourned her for dead, or would be disturbed that she’d “gone native,” and she didn’t feel any reason to leave, anyway. She seemed pleasant and perfectly happy enough.

Anyway, that’s all I can remember, unfortunately. Does thing ring a bell to anyone?

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I don’t remember a scene like that, but in Little Big Man, Jack Crabb’s sister, Olga, was taken by the Indians the same time he was; she grew up as one of them and fit right in and didn’t want or need rescuing when he saw her as an adult.

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Olga was Jack/Little Big Man’s Swedish wife who was abducted. IIRC, years later she is the nagging wife of his rival and doesn’t recognize him.

I think Jack and his sister were captured as kids but she got away and he was raised as one of them.

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“The Searchers” was loosely based upon the abduction by Indians of Cynthia Ann Parker, Quanah Parker’s mom.

Also, the character of “Stands With Fist” played by Mary McDonnell in “Dances With Wolves” was based upon her.

Cynthia Ann Parker was fully assimilated into the culture of her captors and after she was “freed” and repatriated back into white culture, she was never happy.

Her son, Quanah Parker became a legendary Comanche chief before and during the final years of that era. Quanah and his mother, Cynthia Ann Parker are buried beside each other in Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

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I wouldn’t be surprised if it were She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. It’s the type of detail that film would have had.

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Two Rode Together has a scene like that. The two cowboys in the title are going to try to ransom a number of people that the Comanches have captured over the years. They find that many of the captives don’t want to return. It is strongly hinted that the old woman’s white husband was abusive, and that her Comanche husband treated her better.

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Checking the scene online, it looks like Two Rode Together was the movie I was thinking of—though the old woman seems a tad crazier than I thought I remembered. :smack:

Thanks for the help, all! A niggling question finally laid to rest.