Fat Albert and the Eurocentric Textbooks

Teletoon Retro just ran an old episode of Fat Albert in which the gang meet a native kid (from Arizona, so presumably Navajo?) but don't believe that he's "a real Indian" because he's bookish and generally un-stereotypical (although his dad does work in high-rise construction). Good, if somewhat heavy-handed lesson. However the cheery song at the end suggests that if you're not sure if something you hear is true or not, you should go to the local library and "Check It Out" in a book.

Call me cynical, but I couldn't help wondering just how much accurate and detailed information on Native American culture (or on folklore and history in general) the children's section of a 1970s public library would actually have been able to provide; although it might have led to Fat Albert and the kids getting an early lesson in trying to collate narratives and determine, when discrepancies occur, which sources are most likely to be reliable.

In the cartoon after that, Lex Luthor escaped from prison by using a hologram projector to temporarily make himself look like Lois Lane and vice versa. I didn't stay to find out how it ended.