I Hated Tonto (Still Do)

Alexie describes Indian films and states that he loves all of them, even the bad ones. Throughout the reading, he pants the picture that Indians are played by non-Indians, and it's okay. He states that Indians became so numb to the possibility of dissent and accepted their own lowered expectations because that is all that was seen in the films. But he realized and became embarrassed as he became older over the stereotypes that were displayed in movies, especially "Powwow Highway." He also realizes that he wanted to be the stereotypical Indian but was nothing like what was being portrayed and that's why he hated Tonto because he was a real Indian playing an Indian.

This reading was a little hard to understand until the end when Alexie ties everything together.