A stereotypical Native American village in the Wild West. Enter Fatty, who has been pushed off a moving train. Minnie saves this white man and is quite attracted to him. He reluctantly accepts her marriage proposal and then runs off. Minnie tries everything to win Fatty back. The film makes jokes at the expense of Minnie and her people, but at the same time she confidently asserts herself in this comedy with her desire and physical presence.

With Minnie Deveraux

Minnie Devereaux (c. 1868–1923), a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Nations, was probably the only Native woman working as a film comedienne in the silent era. She was very popular and performed in at least fifteen films between 1913 and 1923. In 1917, she told an interviewer: »White man’s history. They do not tell the truth.« She was widely forgotten by the 1930s.

Films with Minnie Deveraux
Suzanna 1923 | The Girl of the Golden West 1923 | The Paleface 1922 | A Ridin’ Romeo 1921 | By Right of Birth 1921 |
If Only Jim 1920 | Food for Scandal 1920 | Up in Mary’s Attic 1920 | Rose of the West 1919, A Daughter of the Wolf 1919 | Mickey 1918 | The Coward 1915 | The White Scar 1915 | Old Mammy’s Secret Code 1913 | Silent Heroes 1913