We all know about "Black History Month" and "Hispanic Heritage Month." Now, Starz Encore Group LLC's Westerns is looking to raise the profile of National American Indian Heritage Month -- November.
The network announced Tuesday that it will salute Jay Silverheels with The Lone Ranger series and some movies included in its daylong "Six-Gun Salute" marathon of programming scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Nov. 30.
Besides five episodes of The Lone Ranger, starring Clayton Moore, Westerns will offer such Silverheels movie credits as Brave Warrior, The Pathfinder, Last of the Comanches and The Nebraskan.
Silverheels -- a onetime boxer and lacrosse player before becoming a movie stuntman -- was born on a Canadian reservation to a Mohawk chief, the Westerns announcement pointed out.
