In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914)

In the Land of the Head Hunters is a 1914 silent film fictionalizing the world of the Kwakwakawakw Kwakiutl peoples of the Queen Charlotte Strait region of the Central Coast of British Columbia Canada written and directed by Edward S Curtis and acted entirely by Kwakwakawakw natives It was the first featurelength film whose cast was composed entirely of Native North Americans the second eight years later was Robert Flahertys Nanook of the North