Native Americans on Network TV by FitzGerald Michael Ray;

Author:FitzGerald, Michael Ray;
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Background of the Series

Daniel Boone was developed by Twentieth Century-Fox Pictures in association with Arcola Pictures (Aaron Rosenberg and Marty Melcher, Doris Day’s husband), with actor Fess Parker through his production company, Fespar Enterprises. Parker had previously starred as Davy Crockett in three episodes of Walt Disney’s ABC-TV anthology series along with two feature-film versions.[11] Crockett, too, was an Indianized white man who had captured the country’s imagination via television.

The series’ initial episode, “Ken-Tuck-E,” aired on September 24, 1964. The TV Boone lives very simply and speaks like an uneducated “hillbilly” (being from Texas himself, Parker had a convincing southern accent). A connection is made here between hillbillies—generally of Ulster-Scots descent—and Indians, especially Cherokees: both rely on their wits rather than “book learning” (however, Boone’s friend and companion, Cherokee chief Mingo, has an Oxford education); both are enemies of the English. This, however, is historically inaccurate: the Cherokees resented the Scots-Irish and their incursions and sided with the British, who had promised to curb advances by settlers.[12] The role of the Scots-Irish in conquering the continent was recognized by none other than Theodore Roosevelt—Scots-Irish himself on his mother’s side—who wrote a four-volume history of the winning of the West. Roosevelt remarked that if it weren’t for the ferocity of these Ulster-Scots—who formed the core of the so-called pioneer movement—the United States would not exist in its current form:

That these Irish Presbyterians were a bold and hardy race is proved by their at once pushing past the settled regions of America and plunging into the wilderness as the leaders of the white advance. . . . They were the first and the last set of immigrants to do this; all others have merely followed in [their] wake.[13]

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