Medicine River

"Does it seem as if the film is made for a Native or general audience?"
"What vision of Native American woman does the film portray?"

This film does, in fact, seem as if it is made for Native Americans. The plot of the film itself was easy enough to understand, but the jokes were kind of difficult to follow. After some time I understood the joke that was being made, but since it took some time to understand it, it really lost it's humor and it's purpose. Otherwise I think this film was fairly easy to understand.
This film also did a decent job of displaying how modern-day Indian woman are. They portrayed Louise as a very strong, independent woman. She wanted to have a baby and when she got pregnant and didn't have the father, she was more determined than ever to try to raise the child on her own. I feel that most Native American women are this way: very strong and very independent. They feel as if they can do anythign on their own.
Louise was very similar to Alberta in Green Grass Running Water in this way. Alberta wanted a child of her own very badly, but did not want to have to have a husband to do so. She even went through with dating two men at the same time and wondering which one would help her be a mother without demanding to be the father because she wanted to raise the baby on her own. Which was bascially the same as Louise in Medicine River.