Iron Eyes Cody
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Arts
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Acting, Actors, Films, Movies, Motion Pictures
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, American Indian History
Article abstract: Iron Eyes Cody was a film and television actor who was probably most familiar to Americans as the crying Indian looking at a polluted river in “Keep America Beautiful” television spots during the early 1970's.
With his omnipresent head feathers and braided wigs, Iron Eyes Cody was a living embodiment of popular images of the noble Indian. He claimed that his mother was a Cree from northern Canada and his father an Oklahoma Cherokee named Thomas Long Plume, a performer in circuses and wild west shows, but it is possible that he had no Native...
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