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Michael Horse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ He made his film debut playing Tonto in the disastrous "The Legend of the Lone Ranger" (1981). The film was boycotted by fans of the TV series especially because the producers denied Clayton Moore the right to wear the familiar black mask! fan fury = failed filmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leg...he_Lone_Ranger Klinton Spilsbury, who played the title role, never acted again.
Sacheen Littlefeather - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ~ She was much-maligned for her Oscar moment, with people claiming that she was anything but Native American! I've been to powwows where people with only a small percentage of ancestry had plaques noting that they were Native Americans! Yet, this lady is endlessly put down. *sigh*
Our ancestry is mainly Irish, but we have quite a bit of Illini mixed in; so, my family always has been conscious of Native American/Indian actors and other achievers, including Maria Tallchief, the United States' first major prima ballerina. Maria Tallchief - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
EDIT: There are times when some of us touch history, and it happened to me. While saving to go back and finish college, I was working as a waitress in a truckstop. One day, a couple sat at my counter, and I could tell that they were Indians (a term many of them use instead of what later became popular with the public: Native American). When I had the opportunity, I stood and spoke with them, explaining that people couldn't tell from my auburn hair and fair skin that I am part Illini; they agreed that many people unfairly judged and that they actually knew some "pure-blood" who had reddish hair and grey eyes. (Mine are very dark brown, near black.) They introduced themselves as Frank and Morningsky Clearwater and said that they were on their way to a protest out West, something very familiar in the Sixties and Seventies. I wished them luck and enjoyed my meeting with them. Sometime after, I picked up a newspaper to take home and saw a familiar face: Frank Clearwater had been killed at the Wounded Knee protest. It was so startling, and I began crying, remembering what nice people they appeared to be.
From Wikipedia: Among the many Indian supporters who joined the protest were Frank Clearwater and his pregnant wife, who were Cherokee from North Carolina. He was hit in the head on April 17, 1973, while he slept, less than 24 hours after arrival, and he died on April 25.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_incident
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Maria Ouspenskaya ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Ouspenskaya ~ She's unforgettable as the elderly Gypsy woman who tells Larry Talbot (Lon Chaney, Jr.), "Even a man who is pure in heart and says his prayers by night may become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms and the autumn moon is bright." in "The Wolf Man" (1941).
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