''Native Americans on Network TV: Stereotypes, Myths, and the "Good Indian"'' (2013) is a book by Michael Ray FitzGerald, about American Indian characters on U.S. television.
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
*''
Inventing the Indian'' (2014)
References
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Books about television
Books about media bias
Indigenous peoples in the United States
Works about Native Americans
Native Americans in popular culture
History of civil rights in the United States
Social history of the United States
American non-fiction books
2013 non-fiction books
Rowman & Littlefield books