Stand Watie - Representation in Culture

Representation in Culture

  • Stand Watie is featured occasionally in Rifles for Watie, a novel by Harold Keith. It portrays the experiences of a young Union soldier from Kansas, who meets Watie and his people in Tahlequah.
  • He was featured as a character in the film The Great Sioux Uprising (1953), played by Glenn Strange.
  • The song "Coyotes," recorded by Don Edwards, is a longtime cowboy's lament about losses from the Old West: Comanches, outlaws, longhorns, Geronimo, the red wolf, and Stand Watie.

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