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Native American Celebrities, Games & Other Web Resources<\/h1>\n

Native American Online Resources<\/h2>\n

Credit Above 2 Photos: Melbourne Spurr<\/a>, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Designed by Charles R. Chickering, based on a photograph furnished to the Post Office Department by the Washington Star.<\/a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/h3>\n<\/div>

Native American Celebrities, Games & Other Web Resources<\/h1>\n

Native American Online Resources<\/h2>\n

Credit Above 2 Photos: Melbourne Spurr<\/a>, and Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Designed by Charles R. Chickering, based on a photograph furnished to the Post Office Department by the Washington Star.<\/a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/h3>\n<\/div>

Crazy Crow Trading Post offers this list of Native American Celebrities, Games & Other Web Resources related links to help you in your search for information about American Indian tribes, associations, history and related information. Inclusion in this list does not represent an endorsement by Crazy Crow, although we do try to be selective – and reserve the right to do so.<\/p>\n<\/div>

Games from the Aboriginal People of North America<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Around the world people have passed on games as part of their culture. Both children and adults played games in all Aboriginal nations, and because most relied on symbols, these games could be played among different nations who didn’t speak the same language. Many of these games were played for entertainment, but they usually had a religious meaning or were used as learning tools. Each game is presented in a format that includes its origin & history, rules, photos\/diagrams, etc. Games presented represent a very varied tribal representation.<\/p>\n

Native American Celebreties<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

American Indian actors, singers and other celebrities. For fans and professionals. Casting, photos, bios, movies, TV, info.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Dewey Beard or Was\u00fa M\u00e1za | Minneconjou Lakota | Little Big Horn & Wounded Knee<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Dewey Beard or Was\u00fa M\u00e1za (“Iron Hail”, 1858\u20131955) was a Minneconjou Lakota who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn as a teenager.[1] After Custer’s defeat, Wasu Maza followed Sitting Bull into exile in Canada and then back to South Dakota where he lived on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. [2]<\/p>\n

Iron Hail joined the Ghost Dance movement and was in Spotted Elk’s band along with his parents, siblings, wife and child. He and his family left the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation on December 23, 1890 with Spotted Elk and approximately 300 other Miniconjou and 38 Hunkpapa Lakota on a winter trek to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to avoid the perceived trouble which was anticipated in the wake of Sitting Bull’s murder at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He and his family at the Wounded Knee Massacre, where he was shot three times, and some of his family, including his mother, father, wife and infant child were killed. His experiences were recounted in an in depth interview with Eli S. Ricker (Union Civil War veteran well known for his progressive views on Native Americans) for a book Ricker planned to write.[11] Ricker conducted more than fifty interviews with various Native Americans, as well as scouts and settlers, recording various eyewitness accounts on events during the Indian Wars in the west, such as the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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He recorded this information for a book he planned on writing to be entitled “The Final Conflict between the Red Men and the Palefaces.” Ricker recorded more than 1,500 pages on ruled tablets which came to be known as the “Ricker Tablets”.[4] He never got around to writing his book but the information he gathered, many first hand accounts of historical events, is considered an invaluable historical resource for documenting the history of the American West. These tablets are now in the archives of the Nebraska State Historical Society.[5][6]\n

Dewey Beard changed his name from Iron Hail when he converted to Roman Catholicism. He was a member of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show for 15 years and was featured in Buffalo Bill’s 1914 silent picture The Indian Wars Refought. In the early 1940s Beard and his wife Alice were raising horses on their land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In 1942 the Department of War annexed 341,725 acres (138,291 ha) of the reservation for use as an aerial gunnery and bombing range. Beard’s family was among the 125 Lakota families uprooted from their homes. They were compensated by the government for their land in installments which were too low to enable them to afford more property, and as a result they both moved into a poor section of Rapid City.<\/p>\n

When he died in 1955 at the age of ninety six, Dewey Beard was the last known Lakota survivor of the Battle of the Little Big Horn, and the last known Lakota survivor of the Wounded Knee Massacre<\/strong>.[12]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Will Rogers | Cherokee Nation Citizen<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 \u2013 August 15, 1935) was an American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorous social commentator. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory (now part of Oklahoma), and is known as “Oklahoma’s Favorite Son”.[1] As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 “talkies”), and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns.[2] By the mid-1930s, Rogers was hugely popular in the United States for his leading political wit and was the highest paid of Hollywood film stars. He died in 1935 with aviator Wiley Post when their small airplane crashed in northern Alaska.[3]<\/p>\n

Rogers was born on his parents’ Dog Iron Ranch in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, near present-day Oologah, Oklahoma, now in Rogers County, named in honor of his father, Clem Vann Rogers. The house in which he was born had been built in 1875 and was known as the “White House on the Verdigris River”.[4] His parents, Clement Vann Rogers (1839\u20131911) and Mary America Schrimsher (1838\u20131890), were both of mixed race and Cherokee ancestry, and identified as Cherokee.[5] Rogers quipped that his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower, but they “met the boat”.[6] His mother was one quarter-Cherokee and born into the Paint Clan.[7]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Rogers made 48 silent movies, but with the arrival of sound in 1929, he became a top star in that medium. Overall, he appeared in 21 feature films. He was directed three times by John Ford, who was his favorie director.[8] With his voice becoming increasingly familiar to audiences, Rogers essentially played himself in each film, without film makeup, managing to ad-lib and sometimes work in his familiar commentaries on politics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Wes Studi | Cherokee Nation | Actor<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Wesley Studi (Cherokee: born December 17, 1947) is a Native American (Cherokee Nation) actor and film producer. He has garnered critical acclaim and awards throughout his career, particularly for his portrayal of Native Americans in film.[15][16] He has appeared in Academy Award-winning films, such as Dances with Wolves (1990) and The Last of the Mohicans (1992), and in the Academy Award-nominated films Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) and The New World (2005). He is also known for portraying Sagat in Street Fighter (1994). In 2019, he received an Academy Honorary Award,[17] becoming the first Native American and the second Indigenous person from North America to be honored by the Academy (the first was Buffy Sainte-Marie). In December 2020, The New York Times ranked him #19 in its list of the “25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (So Far),” noting “Wes Studi has one of the screen\u2019s most arresting faces \u2014 jutting and creased and anchored with the kind of penetrating eyes that insist you match their gaze.<\/p>\n

Studi was born in a Cherokee family in Nofire Hollow, Oklahoma, a rural area in Cherokee County named after his mother’s family.[19] He is the son of Maggie Studie, a housekeeper, and Andy Studie, a ranch hand. Until he attended elementary school, he spoke only Cherokee at home.[20] He attended Chilocco Indian Agricultural School for high school and graduated in 1964; his vocational major was in dry cleaning.[8]<\/p>\n<\/div>

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After his studies, Studi taught the Cherokee language and syllabary and helped establish a Cherokee-language newspaper. He went into ranching. Studi serves as honorary chair of the national endowment campaign of the Indigenous Language Institute in Santa Fe.[19]\n

At the age of 17, Studi enlisted in the Oklahoma National Guard and had his basic combat training and advanced individual training at Fort Polk, Louisiana.[18] Studi volunteered for active service and went to Vietnam with A Company of the 3rd Battalion 39th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division,[22] where he served for 12 months.[18] After his discharge, Studi became politically involved in Native American activism. He participated in the Wounded Knee Incident at Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973.[20] Studi stated in an interview that he first began acting while attending Tulsa Community College, after returning from his service in Vietnam. He had a role in the play The Royal Hunt of the Sun for the American Indian Theater Company.[23]<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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