CBR hosts a roundtable about the portrayal of Native Americans in comic books, with Jason Aaron, David Mack, Jeff Mariotte, Jay Odjick, Robert Schmidt, Michael Sheyahshe, Timothy Truman and Mark Waid:

In terms of heroic fiction, I think, sadly, everything we know about Native Americans was defined by Tonto… And that’s really sort of unfortunate and it’s a very narrow definition. And I think that as Native Americans started to really find their own voice in pop culture in the ’70s and ’80s, shamanism and mysticism became a little more prominent in the nation’s culture, and that helped comics writers and adventure writers find new and interesting things to do with Native American characters. But there’s still probably a long way to go.

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