Eddie Little Sky Net Worth

✎ About Eddie Little Sky

Who is it?: Actor, Miscellaneous Crew

Birth Place: Pine Ridge, South Dakota, United States

Died On: September 5, 1997(1997-09-05) (aged 71)\nPennington, South Dakota, USA

Birth Sign: Virgo

Occupation: Actor

Years active: 1957–1979

Spouse(s): Dawn Gates (19??-19??); 5 children

Eddie Little Sky Net Worth

Eddie Little Sky was born on August 15, 1926 in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, United States, is Actor, Miscellaneous Crew. Oglala Lakota, born Edsel Wallace Little Sky on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota. Eddie served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific theatre during World War II. Tall (at 6 ft, 2") and muscular, he was subsequently employed as an oil field wildcatter and then toured the rodeo circuit with Casey Tibbs' American Wild West Show & Rodeo as a bull and bareback bronco rider. He entered films as a stuntman in the early 50s. By the middle of the decade, Eddie was playing Native American chiefs and braves and eventually amassed a portfolio of more than 60 film credits and numerous TV episodes -- often as a featured player rather than a mere extra. Among his better known roles was that of Black Eagle in A Man Called Horse (1970). Eddie and his wife Dawn Little Sky moved to Los Angeles in 1959, but they never regarded this as their true 'home'. "Phasing out the Hollywood era", as Dawn called it, they returned to South Dakota in 1975 whereupon Eddie worked as director of the Oglala Lakota Tribal Parks and Recreation Authority. Both Eddie and Dawn were also well known for their accomplishments as exponents of traditional dance, having toured both Europe and Japan and performed before royalty.
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1955

Following his work on the 1955 film Chief Crazy Horse, Audie Murphy encouraged Little Sky to become a professional actor; thus Little Sky, along with Jay Silverheels and Chief Dan George became one of the first Native Americans to play Native American roles in films. Hollywood normally used white actors wearing black wigs and dark make-up to play the parts of Native Americans. His first television role was on the series The Iron Trail,

1970

Upon his retirement from the film industry in the late 1970s, he worked as Director of the Oglala Lakota Tribal Parks and Recreation Authority. He married Dawn Gates, who became an Actress known as Dawn Little Sky; the couple had five children.

1997

Eddie Little Sky died on September 5, 1997, aged 71 in Pennington County, South Dakota from lung cancer. He was interred at the Little's Flat Family cemetery in Oglala, South Dakota.

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