text: In 1950, Rosebud Yellow Robe, a Native American folklorist, educator, and author, was hired by 20th Century Fox to undertake a national tour to promote the film. Yellow Robe explained that there were no such things as Native American princesses, and that the myth started when Pocahontas went to England and the English named her "Lady Rebecca". Yellow Robe voiced complaints about the portrayals of Indians on radio, screen, and television to "a new generation of children learning the old stereotypes about whooping, warring Indians, as if there weren't anything else interesting about us".
  The Apache Wedding Prayer
  The Apache Wedding Prayer was written for this film.
  Awards and honors
  Best Supporting Actor (nomination) — Jeff Chandler
  Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay (nomination) — Albert Maltz (front: Michael Blankfort) from the novel Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold
  Academy Award for Best Cinematography, color (nomination) — Ernest Palmer
  The film is recognized by American Film Institute in the 2008 list, AFI's 10 Top 10: Nominated Western Film
  Adaptations to other media
  Broken Arrow was dramatized as an hour-long Lux Radio Theatre radio play on January 22, 1951, starring Burt Lancaster (replacing an ill James Stewart) and Debra Paget. It was also presented as a half-hour broadcast of Screen Directors Playhouse on September 7, 1951, with James Stewart and Jeff Chandler in their original film roles. The film and novel also provided the basis for a television series of the same name that ran from 1956 through 1958, starring Michael Ansara as Cochise and John Lupton as Jeffords.
  Cultural references
  The movie's world premiere was held at the Roxy Theatre in New York City.
  After watching the film, Colombian cyclist Martín Emilio Rodríguez adopted the nickname "Cochise" from the character of the film he liked the most.