The scene showing the aftermath of the massacre and the funeral scene of The Searchers was referenced by Sam Peckinpah in Major Dundee , released in 1965 .
`` Sam Peckinpah referenced the aftermath of the massacre and the funeral scene in Major Dundeeand , according to a 1974 review by Jay Cocks , Peckinpah 's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia contains dialogue with `` '' direct tributes to such classics as John Huston 's The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and John Ford 's The Searchers . ''
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