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Jun 28, 2017 · Leonard George remembers the first time he heard his father, Chief Dan George, deliver his moving and prophetic speech on Indigenous rights, "A Lament for Confederation." It was 1967 and the acclaimed actor and former Tsleil-Waututh chief was set to speak at Canada's centennial celebration in Vancouver.
Sep 28, 1981 · VANCOUVER -- Chief Dan George, internationally-acclaimed actor and eloquent defender of Indian rights, was buried on his beloved Burrard Indian reserve Monday after a funeral mass at Vancouver's ...
Jun 12, 2017 · To mark Canada’s 150th birthday, we are counting down to Canada Day with profiles of 150 noteworthy British Columbians. On July 1, 1967, Chief Dan George was invited to speak at a giant ...
Chief Dan George is an instantly recognizable national figure to practically all Canadians over the age of forty. Born as Geswanouth Slahoot in 1899 on the Burrard Native Reserve near Vancouver, British Columbia, this famous Native Canadian was an actual Native chief, an Academy Award nominated actor, an orator, a raconteur, a spiritual leader ...
Biography. Native American character actor who made his mark in features late in life with several memorable performances. Chief Dan George first came to prominence with his Oscar-nominated supporting role as the philosophical tribesman who adopts Dustin Hoffman in Arthur Penn's offbeat, time-spanning saga "Little Big Man" (1970).
Chief Dan George. Chief Dan (Teswahno) George was an actor born on Burrard Indian Reserve No. 3, British Columbia, in 1899. To most Canadians he is the first well-known Indigenous artist. Until he was 60 he had done a series of jobs and was the chief of the Squamish Band of Burrard Inlet, BC. In 1959 he began to act, usually as the “wise old ...
Little Big Man is a 1970 American revisionist Western film [2] directed by Arthur Penn, adapted by Calder Willingham from Thomas Berger 's 1964 novel of the same title. It stars Dustin Hoffman, Chief Dan George, Faye Dunaway, Martin Balsam, Jeff Corey and Richard Mulligan. The film follows the life of a white man who was raised by members of ...
