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SEPTEMBER 18, 2000

"Last week in this column I made reference to the 'Faithful Indian Companion' of The Lone Ranger as a slow, dumb, inarticulate yes man...Response to that column has been thicker than the silver bullets on The Lone Ranger’s belt...Many of my non-Indian friends and peers think Tonto was the best thing since sliced fry-bread, while my Native cohorts and colleagues are thinking I let him off too easy..."

Get the Story:
Well, Whatever: Insensitivity, not Tonto, was target of column (The Billings Gazette 9/16)

More John Potter:
John Potter: I'm not your Tonto (9/11)
John Potter: Jail (9/5)
John Potter: The Dreamer (8/28)
John Potter: Buffalo corn (8/22)
John Potter: Turkey leg (8/17)
John Potter: Kansas still rocks (8/15)
John Potter: Eating (8/14)
John Potter bares all (8/2)
John Potter: The G-Spot (07/31)
John Potter: Shakespeare (7/24)
John Potter: Lions, bears, weddings, oh my (7/17)
John Potter: Hope for Crows (07/10)
John Potter: Alaska, odors, women (07/03)
John Potter: The Black Hills (06/26)
John Potter: Morals (06/19)
John Potter: Butts (06/12)
John Potter: Well, Whatever (06/05)

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