Chief Tahachee

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Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert, 4 March 1904 in James Mill, Arkansas) was an American-born Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer.

Chief Tahachee
Born March 4, 1904(1904-03-04)
James Mill, Arkansas Died June 9, 1978(aged 74)
San Gabriel, CaliforniaOccupation Stage, film actor, author

Chief Tahachee authored four books: Poems of Dreams (1942), Drifting Sands (1950), An American Indian Climb Toward Truth & Wisdom (1955), and The Rough and Rowdy Ways of an American Indian Cowboy (1957).[1] Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed the copyright on it October 1972.[2]

Chief Tahachee appeared as a film extra in several films produced from the 1920s to the 1960s, including westerns, film noir, drama, and historical sagas. His first film appearance was in a silent film, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1920 at the age of 16.[citation needed]

He was married seven times, fathered ten children, and died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack.[3] He is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in San Dimas, California.

References

External links

Chief Tahachee at the Internet Movie Database
Chief Tahachee at TV.com

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