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Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (born Sylvester Clark Long; December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932) was an African-American journalist, writer and film actor who, for a time, became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Native American causes.
Adopted by the Kainai (Blood) as Buffalo Child in 1922, he began a freelance writing career as Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In 1928 he published his fictitious "auto-biography," Long Lance, which won acclaim as a Blackfoot reminiscence of growing up in the last days of freedom on the plains.
In the early and mid 1920s, now calling himself Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, the talented writer penned articles, based on personal investigations, about aboriginal people in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
21. März 2012 · Famous Indian Writer dies by his own Hand: “Chief” Buffalo Child Long Lance, full blood Cherokee Indian, and former football star, war veteran, aviator, author and newspaperman, committed...
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1986 55 min. Was he a black man, a white man, or an Indigenous leader? This documentary looks at legendary and fascinating impostor Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. In the early 1900s, he garnered international acclaim as a soldier, journalist, writer, photographer, bon vivant and movie star.
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1 Dec. 1890–20 Mar. 1932. Buffalo Child Long Lance, author and actor, was one of the best-known people of from the North American Indian tribes of the late 1920s. In 1928, he vividly described his boyhood among his tribe, the Blackfoot tribe of the Western Plains, in his autobiography, Long Lance.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance (born Sylvester Clark Long; December 1, 1890 – March 20, 1932) was an African-American journalist, writer and film actor who, for a time, became internationally prominent as a spokesman for Native American causes.
