Comments on: Native or Not? The True Stories behind 5 “American Indian” Actors

By: botanycreek

botanycreek — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:50:00 +0000

Actually, Tonto called the Lone Ranger “Que no sabe” which loosely translates “He who knows nothing” in Spanish.

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By: Bobo

Bobo — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:26:00 +0000

>> Actually Peter Maivia didn’t claim to be Indian. He and his character were Samoan.

Ok…I’ll take your word on that one. He was the only one of that group that I never saw live. We didn’t get the “WWWF” as it was then known (Yes, 3 W’s) until around 1981, and by then I don’t think he was wrestling anymore.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:29:00 +0000

Actually Peter Maivia didn’t claim to be Indian. He and his character were Samoan.

By: alison

alison — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:51:00 +0000

dooflotchie – totally! emergency was my favorite show as a kid cuz my dad was a fireman and paramedic.

i worked at a bookstore in hollywood and randolph mantooth came in and i was totally starstruck! i couldn’t even talk to him!

btw johnny depp is also part cherokee so it is appropriate he’s playing tonto.

By: Bobo

Bobo — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:01:00 +0000

I’ll bet you could devote a whole column to wrestlers who claimed to be either Indian or Russian, they were just popular gimmicks. Probably few if any actually were.

Indians: Jay Youngblood, Jack and Jerry Brisco, Wahoo Mcdaniel, High Chief Peter Maivia and many others.

Russians: Nikolai Volkoff, Boris Zukhoff, Ivan Koloff, Chris Markoff and many others

By: Nerak

Nerak — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:01:50 +0000

Funny. That reminds me of a Far Side comic where an aged Lone Ranger is looking in a Native American Dictionary and is disturbed to find out that “Kemosabe” is “an Apache expression for a horse’s rear end.”

By: Tyrone Tootoosis

Tyrone Tootoosis — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:55:03 +0000

“Preserve!”
LOL….
Hilarious double edged meaning wouldn`t you say?
BTW, Kemosabe means ” to be peeping/sneaking a look” in my language as in Keemootahpi….this is in reference to the eye mask worn by the Lone Ranger.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:38:41 +0000

BassMan, Kemo sabe means white shirt

By: dooflotchie

dooflotchie — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:25:26 +0000

OMG, Randolph Mantooth! I remember watching him on Emergency! when I was a kid and I had such a crush on him. I don’t care if he’s half Martian, he’s wicked hawt!

By: john

john — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:26:47 +0000

anybody remember the professional wrestler Totanka, not sure if he was native american or not