Regarding Johnny Depp’s Portrayal of Tonto

Everyone in Indian country is in an uproar about Johnny Depp playing Tonto in the upcoming flick, The Lone Ranger, but for the wrong reasons

Pixar to Make Day of the Dead Movie

The Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, laden with indigenous tradition, will star in a movie made by Pixar, the animation studio has announced.

Tontomania—Who Are We’z Anyways?

Do you think Wes Studi would make a good Tonto? He made a good Apache. Hell, as Magua he made a good Huron/Mohawk, I never was clear what tribe he was supposed to be from, but he sure was bad ass and ugly. Even while he and Russell Means were busy killing other Indians he charged our imaginations about ourselves. Was that the right message? Not one peep from the Indian movie image police. Indianicide? Indianicide wants me, lord I can’t go back there. Well, anyway.