Childhood Indians: television, film and sustaining the white (sub)conscience

1. Introduction

2. The white (sub)conscience: if it's invisible, then racism no longer exists

3. Holding the fort: early cinematic Indian images maintain the colonizer mentality of the national myth

4. The "good Indian" films: dependent Indians and great fathers

5. Serving the nation proudly: the allegorical Indian, Cold War, civil rights and the Vietnam War

6. Lord John Morgan and Lt. John Dunbar to the rescue: revisionist Hollywood and sustaining the white (sub)conscience

Epilogue. Revisiting Boonesborough, the quest for adventure, and misplaced thought.