Born August 15, 1926· Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA
† Died September 5, 1997
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Born on the Pine Ridge Reservation to Oglala Lakota parents, he attended the Holy Rosary Indian Mission school, served in the Pacific theater with the U.S. Navy during World II, and later worked as a bull-rider and bareback rider on the rodeo circuit. After a role in the 1955 film Chief Crazy Horse, Audie Murphy urged him to pursue acting, making him one of the first Native performers to play Nati…
