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Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[iff_and_xor]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen Reservation Dogs?

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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)

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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!

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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)]

Yeah, exactly!

Maybe I'm a big ol' hippie, but I think kids do need role models and to see people who look like them playing firefighters or CEOs or whatever.

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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

Re: Native American are really under represented in TV

[(Anonymous)]

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.