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Also? Why is he called ‘The Lone Ranger’ if Tonto is always at his side?

August 19, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

DM via Ed Driscoll:

“By casting the cruelest, most aggressive tribe of Indians as mere saps and victims of oppression, Johnny Depp’s Lone Ranger perpetuates the patronising and ignorant cartoon of the ‘noble savage,’” the London Daily Mail notes today, adding that “For reasons best know to themselves, the film-makers have changed Tonto’s tribe to Comanche — in the original TV version, he was a member of the comparatively peace-loving Potowatomi tribe.”

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