I just looked at my post on The Searchers and realized it doesn't really make much sense! I excerpted it from a paper I have been writing about the role of the Indian in the classic Hollywood westerns. The thesis is basically that one aspect of the the Indian's function in the western is that of history. The Indian, as a personification of history, represents an impediment to Utopia, which must be outside history. I think that should be enough to make sense of it. I will probably post the entire paper when it is finished.