Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis "Tahchee" Cypert, March 4, 1904 â€"
June 9, 1978) was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a
vaudeville performer. He claimed to be a descendant of the Old Settler
Cherokees.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). Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed the
copyright on it October 1972.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.Tahachee was married to poet and Hollywood
film extra Dorothy Lear Evelyn Teters Cypert "Nawana" Yarbrough, who
also went by "Princess Neowana." After their divorce married six more
times, he fathered ten children. He died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel,
California of a heart attack.
June 9, 1978) was an author, a stage actor, a film extra, and a
vaudeville performer. He claimed to be a descendant of the Old Settler
Cherokees.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). Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed the
copyright on it October 1972.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.Tahachee was married to poet and Hollywood
film extra Dorothy Lear Evelyn Teters Cypert "Nawana" Yarbrough, who
also went by "Princess Neowana." After their divorce married six more
times, he fathered ten children. He died June 9, 1978 in San Gabriel,
California of a heart attack.
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