'The Daughter of Dawn’s' Vanished World

It was an evening sometime around the end of the spring of 2018. I was sifting through some of Netflix’s more obscure corners of programming in the hope of finding something I hadn’t seen, and preferably to zone out to. It had been a long day. A title that caught my attention was The Daughter of Dawn, a feature-length silent drama from 1920, once lost and rediscovered in 2005, with a new restoration completed in 2012. It had been shot in western Oklahoma and boasted an all–Native American cast, many of them from my own Kiowa Tribe.