I mean, I think it can be safely said that Scalped shows a great deal of sympathy for the plight of Native Americans, but for the most part the characters are divided up into those who succumb to the paralysing poisons of poverty, ignorance and despair and those who drift or charge or are pushed into a brutal and violent life of crime. There are a few sad relics of radical sixties idealism around, and it's their failures which drive the plot, so all in all it's a relentlessly grim and squalid story, with only occasional glimpses of humanity. I'm not sure I'd be thrilled if someone came into my community and told this kind of story about it, but who knows? Perhaps the anger at the results of injustice and neglect and racial prejudice is the important thing to take away from Scalped, aside from the crazy violent story.