I thought I had seen all if the Rifleman episodes at least once, but never saw The Indian episode until today. While Michael Ansara gives the Indian Marshall character some dignity and courage, the issues with this episode is that both Lucas and Mark show their racist sides, from Mark's shock that the Indian is a US Marshall and that if Harvard was good enough for the Marshall, it's good enough for him, to Lucas' "Marshall-splaining" to the Marshall what all is lawful and that the Marshall should call in some needed support (e.g. Like Matt Dillon) to deal with the unruly townsfolk who can't handle the fact that they drank with an Indian Marshall and that he plans to take a white man into custody. In the end, Lucas sort of saves the day (sorry, Micah) by using reverse psychology on his neighbors, but this is not one of the series better episodes.
Review of The Indian
