Chief Tahachee

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Chief Tahachee
Born	(1904-03-04)March 4, 1904 James Mill, Arkansas, U.S.
Died	June 9, 1978(1978-06-09) (aged 74) San Gabriel, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, San Dimas, California
Occupation	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 appeared as a film extra in several 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 seven times, fathered ten children, and died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack.^[3]

References

External links

Chief Tahachee at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
Name	Tahachee, Chief
Alternative names
Short description	Actor, author
Date of birth	March 4, 1904
Place of birth	James Mill, Arkansas, U.S.
Date of death	June 9, 1978
Place of death	San Gabriel, California, U.S.

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