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Why is that? I can't remember the last time I saw an actor who looks like a stereotypical native american. It's always black people, latina, white and asian ladies. I have a shallow reason as in I like their looks, especially guys with long hair. And I mean they lived there first but then while people came then they brought black people, then asian people immigrated during the Opium war, and it's like Native American people are extinct.

If you’re really asking non-rhetorically, one part of it is that they’re quite a small proportion of the US population relative to the groups you mentioned. I think around 1-3%, depending on how you count.

(There was a horrifically effective genocide carried out that drastically reduced their population.)

And they haven’t had as much of a general push for casual representation beyond removing the stereotypes that were so blatant for so long.

But I think things are changing and there are more fleshed-out native characters in films and TV these days than decades past.

Edited 2025-09-16 00:44 (UTC)

Have you seen Reservation Dogs?

I really liked the adaptations I've seen of Tony Hillerman's books, and I've seen Reservation Dogs recommended... but yeah, I've seen more good Native rep in film than on TV (and even that is woefully little)

iff gave a good explanation, but I would like to add that...a lot of Native Americans simply don't look the way you're expecting them to look, because there has been a lot of ethnic mixing for a lot of time. Even on 'Reservation Dogs,' there are characters who you might assume are Latino, Asian, or even white if the show wasn't telling you, "these are Native Americans."

Also, my husband is part Ojibwe (and I don't mean in the "my great great grandmother was 1/16th Cherokee, or so I've been told" way; my father-in-law is a card-carrying member of the tribe), and I doubt you would think it if you saw him. He looks like a European with a tan, because he took more of his looks from my mother-in-law.

Yeah, I have a friend who is a quarter Cherokee and an active member of her tribe... and she's blond and blue-eyed because she takes after her mother's side of the family, which is northern European.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahn_McClarnon

He's had roles in Longmire, Fargo and Dark Winds, which is based off the Tony Hillerman books about the Navajo Nation police. I recommend it if you're interested in seeing a cast that features predominantly Native American actors, though many have mixed heritage, including McClarnon.

You’re not going to see a “stereotypical Native American” in anything made these days. Depictions of Native Americans are more realistic now.

Reservation Dogs and parts of the early seasons of Yellowstone are great if you’re interested in understanding modern life for Native Americans who come from reservations.

RIP Canadian native actor Graham Greene. He just passed away this month.

https://deadline.com/2025/09/graham-greene-dead-dances-with-wolves-wind-river-1236502962/

I enjoy shows like Longmire and Dark Winds with Native American characters.

Did you see Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon? She's great.

I agree, though. I'm not Native American but grew up in the Southwest and I'm not sure why representation is so poor in terms of casting indigenous actors as teachers and insurance agents and just being around. In school my favorite math teacher and my vice principal were native dudes.

But I also think it's weird how few hispanic actors pop up in California-set shows, too. They're a large minority!

I was just about to post this, thank you. Graham Greene was an international treasure, and apparently has a movie in the can coming out next year.

It seems to me that from Northern Exposure to Reservation Dogs, the most notable native rep has been in shows focused on their story, but we don't need them to be stereotypes (cough cough X-Files) so much as part of the world. As with any other, well, population, we both need to tell their stories and see their faces naturally in a cast without calling attention to it, the way advertisers have just straight up made families needing laundry detergent black, asian, mixed, etc without fanfare.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-16 04:11 (UTC) - Expand

The reason there are not as many Native Americans on TV is that Sicilians don't need the work no more.

I would guess because there just aren't a lot of Native American actors and the ones that are actors don't always look stereotypically Native American (the little blond boy, Gage, in Pet Sematary (1989) is part Chickasaw) or necessarily play Native American roles. Adam Beach has played a lot, but he's actually First Nations. Moses Brings Plenty was on Yellowstone, Dallas Goldtooth is in the upcoming The Last Frontier series, Zahn McClarnon was in Reservation Dogs and is in Dark Winds, Martin Sensmeier was in Yellowstone and is in the upcoming The Terminal List and he's also a model, and Eddie and Michael Spears have been in a lot of different things.

What are your favorite seasons of your favorite shows?

What are your least favorite seasons of the same shows?

Season 5 of Supernatural.

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philstar22 - 2025-09-16 00:59 (UTC) - Expand

Season 2 of The Wire is best. Season 5 is the worst.

Season 4 of the Only Murders in the Building is my favorite. Season 3 is my least favorite.

Buffy: Series 2-3 for favorites, 7 for worst
Supernatural: 4 is favorite, 6 and 7 are worst
Avatar: THe Last Airbender: 2, no least favorite
Doctor Who: series 4 and 5 of New Who, with 9 a close 3rd, series 2 is probably least favorite
Babylon 5: Series 3, series 5 is least favorite (though still like a lot)
Deep Space 9: Series 5, series 7 is least favorite (though still like)
Voyager: Series 5, series 2 is least favorite

Edited 2025-09-16 01:39 (UTC)

My favorite season of Cobra Kai was Season 3; my least favorite season of Cobra Kai was Season 4.

Season 2 of Hannibal. Will in his slut era is just *chef's kiss*

I wish they had gotten to do the planned seasons 3 and 4, because smooshing them together into one season didn't work well for me, but they did the best with what they had.

The first three seasons of Futurama are pure gold to me. I love it all as a whole and while there are some standout episodes, later seasons just never quite hit the same for me.

I liked S4 and 5 of Supernatural, and S8. The later seasons were...not good.

Seasons 4,5,6 of The X-Files. I'm not really into the non-Mulder years.

Seasons 2,4,5 of BtVS

Season 1 and 2 of Torchwood. 3 and 4 are shit.

White Lotus, I like them all for different reasons.

For all your venting needs, trivial or serious!

I have a mild case of heartburn. It by itself is not terrible, but this is the fourth night I've had it. :(

I was mildly venting about my work to my mother. I don't like my work, especially having like fuckall benefits and I want to change it and I am doing steps towards it. My mother - "oh, there are less and less opportunities nowadays, it is so hard to find a job" FUCK SHUT UP BITCH YOU ARE ALWAYS DOING IT. IT'S NOT BEING "REALISTIC" IT'S YOU MAKING MY ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION FUCKING WORSE EVERY FUCKING TIME.
It's always "woman can't find a job past 30", "everyone around is (conservative bigot) you can't do anything about it" etc etc. This shit have been going on all my life and thanks to that I am anxiety ridden loser with no ambitions.

Re: Venting thread.

(Anonymous) - 2025-09-16 20:51 (UTC) - Expand

Car, why'd you have to go and act up when my husband's car is going into the shop?

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