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Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the "Good Indian" (2013) is a book by Michael Ray FitzGerald, PhD, about American Indian characters on U.S. television.[1]
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| Author | Michael Ray FitzGerald |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Publication date | 2013 |
FitzGerald argues that the most notable (i.e., long-running) characters, such as Tonto (The Lone Ranger), Cochise (Broken Arrow), Mingo (Daniel Boone), and Cordell Walker (Walker, Texas Ranger) have been those who enforced Euro-American norms. The book examines the traditional role of stereotypes and their functions in the rhetoric of colonialism, offering a critical analysis of images of the "Good Indian"—minority figures who enforce the dominant group's norms. All of these, FitzGerald argues, are variations of Defoe's Carib character Friday from his 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe.
See also
edit- Inventing the Indian (2014)
References
edit- ↑ Charles, Jim (September 2017). "Native Americans in the Movies: Portrayals from Silent Films to the Present , Michael Hilger. Rowman and Littlefield, 2016". The Journal of American Culture. 40 (3): 288–290. doi:10.1111/jacc.12754. Retrieved June 27, 2026.