Kevin Gover

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-5-18
  

  Two Museum Directors Say It’s Time to Tell the Unvarnished History of the U.S.

  History isn’t pretty and sometimes it is vastly different than what we’ve been taught, say Lonnie Bunch and Kevin Gover.

• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7-8-13
  

  Kevin Gover: Johnny Depp’s Tonto Isn’t Offensive, Just Weird

  Kevin Gover (Pawnee) is the director of the National Museum of the American Indian.I admit that I went to see “The Lone Ranger” expecting to be disappointed and quite likely offended by the portrayal of Indians in the movie. Both Disney and Johnny Depp, the star of the movie, had promised to remake Tonto, the iconic Indian from the television series of the 1950s. Mr. Depp’s Tonto, they said, would not be simply the “faithful Indian companion” to the title character. No, indeed. Mr. Depp’s Tonto, they said, would be the star of the movie, a character who would make Indians proud.