Dark Cloud (September 20, 1855 â€" September 17, 1918) was a First
Nations silent film actor, born Elijah Tahamont. He was a chief of the
Abenaki, a First Nations band government belonging to the Eastern
Algonquian peoples of northeastern North America.Tahamont's father,
also named Elijah Tahamont, had studied at Moor's Charity School and
Dartmouth College, where Native American education had been funded by
a gift of £12,000 in 1767 from a Native American, Presbyterian Rev.
Samson Occom. Moor's School had been established for "civilizing the
wild, wandering Tribes of Indians in North America, and ... for
promoting religion, virtue, and literature among people of all
denominations."Tahamont became known first as a popular lecturer, and
as a model for artist Frederic Remington, the most successful Western
illustrator in the "Golden Age" of illustration at the end of the 19th
century and the beginning of the 20th century. Remington wrote and
illustrated a novel, John Ermine of Yellowstone.
Nations silent film actor, born Elijah Tahamont. He was a chief of the
Abenaki, a First Nations band government belonging to the Eastern
Algonquian peoples of northeastern North America.Tahamont's father,
also named Elijah Tahamont, had studied at Moor's Charity School and
Dartmouth College, where Native American education had been funded by
a gift of £12,000 in 1767 from a Native American, Presbyterian Rev.
Samson Occom. Moor's School had been established for "civilizing the
wild, wandering Tribes of Indians in North America, and ... for
promoting religion, virtue, and literature among people of all
denominations."Tahamont became known first as a popular lecturer, and
as a model for artist Frederic Remington, the most successful Western
illustrator in the "Golden Age" of illustration at the end of the 19th
century and the beginning of the 20th century. Remington wrote and
illustrated a novel, John Ermine of Yellowstone.
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