Writing, Tonto & The Wise-Cracking Minority Sidekick Who Is the First to Die

What images do you recall from childhood?By Cynthia Leitich Smith
for Cynsations

When I think of the quintessential American Indian sidekick in mainstream media, the name that first springs to mind is "Tonto."

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When I was a kid in the 1970s and '80s, there were only three national telev...