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Wes Studi is a native American Cherokee actor and Vietnam veteran. Aside from the movies, he is an activist for both Native Americans and wounded combat veterans.
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He was born on December 17, 1947, in Nofire Hollow, a mountainous area of Oklahoma, United States. Studi began his acting career in the late 1980s and gained recognition for his versatile and profound performances.
One of Studi's most famous roles is as Magua in the film "The Last of the Mohicans," where he portrayed a character full of strength and complexity. He is also known for his roles in films such as "Dances with Wolves" (1990), "Heat" (1995), "Avatar" (2009), and "Hostiles" (2017).
Throughout his career, Wes Studi has been honored with numerous awards, including the National Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cinema in 2019. Beyond acting, he is also a social and cultural activist for Native American communities, advocating for the preservation and respect of Cherokee and other Indigenous cultures.
Studi has been involved in educational and advisory activities, contributing to the introduction and teaching of Indigenous culture and history in schools, communities, and non-profit organizations. He has supported various artistic and cultural projects of Native American communities, from sponsoring cultural events to assisting young Indigenous artists in their careers.
Wes Studi's roles not only depict strong characters but also serve as symbols of the strength and reverence of Native Americans. In "Dances with Wolves" (1990), he portrayed a Sioux leader named Chief Ten Bears.
His contributions have helped promote understanding and respect for the cultural and historical heritage of Native Americans in American society.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONH WAYNE
Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, was born in Winterset, Iowa, but grew up in Southern California. After losing his football scholarship to the University of Southern California due to a bodysurfing accident, he began working for the Fox Film Corporation.
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He appeared mostly in small parts, but his first leading role came in Raoul Walsh's Western The Big Trail (1930), an early widescreen film epic that was a box-office failure. He played leading roles in numerous B movies during the 1930s, most of them also Westerns, without becoming a major name. John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made Wayne a mainstream star, and he starred in 142 motion pictures altogether. According to biographer Ronald Davis, "John Wayne personified for millions the nation's frontier heritage."
Wayne's other roles in Westerns included a cattleman driving his herd on the Chisholm Trail in Red River (1948), a Civil War veteran whose niece is abducted by a tribe of Comanches in The Searchers (1956), a troubled rancher competing with a lawyer (James Stewart) for a woman's hand in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and a cantankerous one-eyed marshal in True Grit (1969), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor. Wayne is also remembered for his roles in The Quiet Man (1952) with Maureen O'Hara, Rio Bravo (1959) with Dean Martin, and The Longest Day (1962). In his final screen performance, he starred as an aging gunfighter battling cancer in The Shootist (1976). Wayne made his last public appearance at the Academy Awards ceremony on April 9, 1979, and died of stomach cancer two months later. In 1980, he was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor of the United States
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Crow Chief PLENTY COUPS, 1880. He reportedly had 50-100 feathers on his coups stick. Counting coups, touching an enemy, was 1 of 4 requirements for becoming a chief.

The pompadour, with animal grease holding the hair in position, was common among Crow males of the era. Clay dust added the lighter color you see in his hair.

The Crow (officially Apsáalooke, and often spelled as Absaroka in early literature) had numbered about 10,000. The 1837 Great Plains smallpox epidemic reduced their population to about 2,000.

At age 11 in 1859, while fasting with other boys, Plenty Coups had visions that were interpreted by elders to mean that the buffalo herds would disappear and that Whites would dominate the land. The Crow allied with the Army against their much larger enemies, the Sioux and Cheyenne. After Plenty Coups’ death in 1932, the Crow council voted unanimously against choosing another Chief of Chiefs. The council leader said: "No living man can fill Plenty Coups’ place.”

The photo was by C.M. Bell in 1880 when Plenty Coups, age 32, was part of a Crow delegation visiting Washington, D.C. I used Photoshop to improve a blurry, low-res scan that I found online. -Gary Coffrin