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, Covina Hills, Covina, California |
| Occupation(s) | 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 was an actor, stuntman and film extra in many Hollywood 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 to Cherokee poet and Hollywood film extra Dorothy Lear Evelyn Teters Cypert "Nawana" Yarbrough also known as "Princess Neowana" and after their divorce married six more times, he fathered ten children, and died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack.[3]
References
- ^ Cy - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors Archived December 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Read the ebook U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 July - December by US Copyright Office Archived July 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Chief Tahachee News, Chief Tahachee Videos, and Chief Tahachee Photos[permanent dead link]
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