I was surprised that there was an equal balance, with whites and Indians both having some good and some bad folk. In a typical series in this PC world, the Indians would’ve been the victims about 100% of the time.
True, but, for me at least, Henry Standing Bear was a little too virtuous and good a friend to Walt to be fully credible. Detective novelist Raymond Chandler, the inadequately credited godfather of TV detective shows, would reject such a character as not realistic and as contrary to the isolation of the detective that is an essential part of his heroism.