I fancy there was huge amounts of hype, when it hit the screens there wouldn't be much gripe (accepting the somewhat dodgy acting), but you'll cast a modern eye, over the plot and ask just why, those filmmakers didn't break, stereotypes. As the folk who had preceded have a case, to evict pillaging raiders from their place, to recover what was stripped, from long held ancestral grip, living freely undeterred, in their own place. Suffice to say the prejudice leaves a bad taste, so don't let Elvis halt retreat just make haste, some of the language is just wrong, like the minstrels without song, it's just history that's been defaced, debased.
Review of Flaming Star
