Chief Tahachee
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| Chief Tahachee | |
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| Born | March 4, 1904 James Mill, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | June 9, 1978 (aged 74) San Gabriel, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, San Dimas, California |
| Occupation | Actor, author |
Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert, March 4, 1904 – June 9, 1978) was an Old Settler Cherokee Indian who was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer.
Chief Tahachee wrote 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]
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