Montford Johnson is one of Oklahoma's many Indigenous heroes – a famed cattleman who lived in the Indian Territory and shaped the frontier into a real success story…that is until some well-meaning white people flipped it into the 46th state in 1907 and pretty much stole our land right in front of us.
But that’s water under the bridge, right?
Either way, the film story of Johnson has been recently told in the biopic Monford: The Chickasaw Rancher, directed by Nathan Frankowski and Chickasaw Nation Productions – a pair of collaborators who worked on another great biopic, Te Ata.