# Early media sympathetic to Native Americans

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-media-sympathetic-to-native-americans/840884>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 27, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-media-sympathetic-to-native-americans/840884 "2019-09-27T02:06:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-media-sympathetic-to-native-americans/840884/21 "2019-09-30T18:48:52Z")

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For a history of Native American depictions in movies, I recommend the 2009 documentary _**[Reel Injun](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1484114/)**_.

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2019, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/early-media-sympathetic-to-native-americans/840884/22 "2019-09-30T20:13:54Z")

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As a kid, the first exposure I got to Native Americans and Hispanics was on kid westerns like Roy Rodgers and Lone Ranger. Minorities were almost always treated sympathetically, as poor-but-honest people being threatened by evil bankers, cattle rustlers, etc. Many years later I decided those stories were allegories for the Civil Rights struggles of the 1950s, that prime time TV dramas weren’t allowed to touch.

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