Chief Tahachee

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, Covina Hills, Covina, 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 was an actor, stuntman and film extra in many Hollywood 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.

He was married to Cherokee poet and Hollywood film extra Dorothy Lear Evelyn Teters Cypert "Nawana" Yarbrough also known as "Princess Neowana" and after their divorce married six more times, he fathered ten children, and died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack.[3]

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