no-ill-wind:

I have been dying all season for them to give Zahn McClarnon his due. “Kiksuya,” Episode 8, offered that up better than I could have dreamed of. This was Akecheta’s episode. It’s a bit late in the season. He should have been featured more prominently earlier on. But I’m so glad he is in for the end of the ride. Kiksuya is a season best, perhaps one of the best episodes of the series so far, proving that McClarnon was an amazing addition to the show and that pursuing the stories of the Native Americans in the park is well worth the show’s time, despite the fraught history of Native American portrayals in the Western genre and in American media in general. The show needs to accept that it is commenting on the cliches of Western media (double entendre) and move forward without fear because the show needs more Akecheta.