
From 'Reservation Dogs' to 'Rutherford Falls,' Native people are having a moment on TV
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Considering the landscape of onscreen Native representation before this year, the two series are downright revolutionary. The showrunners address what it means to tell authentic, funny stories onscreen and how this is just the beginning.
It turns out, however, that the man in the beads and feathers is not the kind of brave or formidable Native hero long romanticized in Hollywood. The unknown warrior instead departed this earth in a most anticlimactic fashion -- his horse tripped over a gopher hole and squashed him dead before the battle even started. "The spirit world is cold," he tells Bear. "My nipples are always hard."More Related News