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- Smith was a poet in residence at Williams College from 1959 to 1967 and taught at Columbia University from 1973 until 1975. He served as the Professor Emeritus of English literature at Hollins University. He was the first Native American named to the position of Poet Laureate in the United States.
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William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s television ...
Jul 11, 2021 · William Smith, Action Star Known for His Onscreen Brawls, Dies at 88. In addition to his Hollywood legacy, the Missouri native was also a bodybuilder, a champion discus thrower and a...
Nov 17, 2023 · In 1883, a man by the name of William Frederick Cody, who also went by the nickname “Buffalo Bill,” created “Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.”The show, which included up to 1,200 performers and showcased staged historical battles between soldiers and/or cowboys and Indians, featured actual Native American performers like Geronimo, Sitting Bull, Will Rogers (yes, he was Cherokee), and ...
Smith drew upon his Native American heritage—he was part Choctaw—for The Cherokee Lottery: A Sequence of Poems (2000).
Smith was a poet in residence at Williams College from 1959 to 1967 and taught at Columbia University from 1973 until 1975. He served as the Professor Emeritus of English literature at Hollins University. He was the first Native American named to the position of Poet Laureate in the United States.
William Smith's document criticizing the Pennsylvania colonial assembly for refusing to help the British protect the colonies from the French and their allied Native American forces will later become typical of accusations that the colonists weren't pulling their weight financially in the British Empire.
William Smith’s father was one of several inhabitants of Donegal whose primary occupation involved trade with native inhabitants of Pennsylvania. James Smith and his fellow traders crossed the Susquehanna River and blazed trails over the Blue Ridge and Allegany Mountains to trade with Native American Villages along the Ohio River.
