Running Zack

Summary[]

Zack fails his family heritage presentation. Unless he can make it up, he is off the track team. His teacher Miss Wentworth arranges a tutor for Zack named Chief Henry, who happens to be a Native American. Zack soon learns about his own Native American heritage, but does not feel like going to the upcoming track rally when tragedy strikes.

Plot[]

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Cast[]

Quotes[]

Zack Morris: "Me Zack Morris, me smoke-um peace pipe."

Kelly Kapowski: "Zack... I don't think that's funny."

Zack Morris: "So what's it like on the reservations anyways?"

Chief Henry: "Not great."

Zack Morris: "Not great?"

Chief Henry: "Nope."

Zack Morris: "Well, why not?"

Chief Henry: "Well, you know, we've got all kinds of problems, like, like the drugs, and the alcohol, and the gambling... crime..."

Zack Morris: "..."

Chief Henry: "I moved here to get away from that. I mean they're my people, but you can't call that living. Not great."

Zack Morris: "Well, uh, how do we fix that, and stuff?"

Chief Henry: "Well we definitely need more social programs, but from, from what I experienced it's also a problem within."

Zack Morris: "Right, uh..."

Chief Henry: "It's not always easy to get along with your, uh, neighbors I guess I'd say. I don't think being 'apart' from America with our own, uh, systems is that great for us. Not something easy to fix."

Zack Morris: "..."

Chief Henry: "It's more of a cultural problem, I'd say at this point. We're just slow to change in, uh, that regard."

Zack Morris: "... I don't think that, uh, I don't think that I can write that in my, uh, report."

Chief Henry: "No, no."

Notes and Trivia[]

• Unfortunately, this would turn out to be Dehl Berti's final television appearance before his untimely death one year after this episode aired.

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