Funny thing about racist depictions of ethnic groups.
My mother, born the day the Hindenburg blew up, thought Indians were brave and honorable thanks to those racist images on movies and kids serials. She knew they could be fierce warriors and brutal, but also trustworthy. To her it was an honor to be an Indian.
Then they tell us all this representation is just mean-spirited racism, but that wasnt what she got out of it.
These days so many paranoid liberal people dont want any representation at all. Look at the Aunt Jemima, etc. some black folk are afraid theyll lose any depiction at all and basically be non-entities, unworthy of representing anything good.
The Indian in Kougan’s Bluff was quite a rotter.