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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.
- Journalism, autobiography
- Long Lance
- American
- Journalist, writer
7. Feb. 2006 · 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.
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...
- Calgaryherald
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.
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.
- 55 Sek.
From 1923 on he presented himself as a Blood. His autobiography, Long Lance, describing himself as a Plains Indian, was published in 1928. In 1929 he starred in the film Silent Enemy. He was found dead with a bullet in his head in California in 1932. For further information see Long Lance : The True Story of an Imposter / Donald B. Smith ...
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.
