Brave Eagle - Keith Larsen starred as Brave Eagle, a young Cheyenne chief who faced the challenges of daily life with neighboring tribes and White men in the Southwest of the 19th century on the western adventure BRAVE EAGLE/CBS/1955-56. His fellow Indians included Keena Nomkeena, a full-blooded Indian boy of Hopi and Klamath descent, as Keena, Brave Eagle’s adopted son; Kim Winona, a full-blooded Sioux, portraying Morning Star, a tribal maiden and Brave Eagle's love interest; and Bert Wheeler as Smokey Joe, the sage half-breed Scout. Produced by Roy Rogers’ Frontier Productions, the series was filmed on Roy Rogers’ 130-acre ranch in Chatsworth, California and the Corriganville Ranch in Simi Valley. The 30-minute BRAVE EAGLE series was the first TV series to feature an American Indian as a lead character. TRIVIA NOTE: The real name of the actor who played Brave Eagle's son, Keena is Anthony Earl Numkena, a resident of Phoenix, Arizona. According to a email sent to TV ACRES: "The change came about as a result of Mr. Michael North, the executive producer (who) changed the name to Keena to fit the part in the series.  He also felt the name Numkena (a Hopi name) looked too oriental and changed it to Nomkena. In the later episodes it was changed to Numkena. The name Keena remained."