Know why the Lone Ranger eventually shot Tonto? He found out that Kemo Sabe means chickens_hit.
Uhhh...................No Bliss. I know you're being facetious. All of us long time Lone Ranger fans know that's not what
Kemosabe means. Here's what I found on
Wikipedia. This is their interpretation of the meaning of the word,
as the show's original writer,
Fran Striker meant it to be, which is "
Trusty Scout"
In the old
Lone Ranger TV series, the Ranger's faithful Indian friend and partner Tonto, played by
First Nations actor
Jay Silverheels for the entire run of the series, was asked in many scenes what "Kemosabe" meant. His reply was invariably, "
It mean Trusty Scout!" The made-for-TV movie
Enter the Lone Ranger (1949) combined the plots of the first three episodes of the
Lone Ranger TV series: "Enter the Lone Ranger", "The Lone Ranger Fights On", and "The Lone Ranger Triumphs" into a complete story related to the origins of the Lone Ranger and his fight for justice for all regardless of sex, race, or creed.
In both, Tonto finds the forever nameless younger brother of a famous
Texas Ranger "Capt. Reid" barely alive. A medallion around the young man's neck helps Tonto identify him as the same boy who'd saved the Indian after a renegade attack wiped out his own family some years earlier. Tonto had declared the young man, played by
Clayton Moore, worthy of brotherhood and, after a "traditional" blood-sharing ceremony gave him the Indian name "Kemosabe" or "
Trusty Scout".
