someone commented that they'd had to puncture their family myth of being part Cherokee by pointing out "of course we look like the Indians in the movies -- we're Scottish, and so were the bit players."

I believe it was at my great-grandfather's funeral in 1964 that my mother overheard a New York relative wanting to know the identity of my mother's family (who were, by the way, the immediately bereaved) and on hearing that they were the Glixmans from Oklahoma nodded sagely: "Yes, of course, they look like Indians."