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In 1976, at our hometown Bicentennial celebration, a Native American in full chiefly regalia turned up. As he stood, arms raised in prayerful blessing, our paper's photographer got the picture that went on Page One.
His "American" name was Bob Simard and his "real" name is Littlefoot.
I later interviewed him and learned he was with Gen. McAuliff at Bastogne and stood next to him when he uttered the famous response ("Nuts!") to the German order to surrender.
He spoke a very obscure Native American sub-dialect of a Southwest Indian language and used it in the clear with another speaker for radio communication during the Battle of the Bulge, in the European Theater of Operations.
YCLIU in one of the July issues of The Hampton Union at Lane Memorial Library!
http://www.hampton.lib.nh.us
The story was picked up by a couple of our sister daily newspapers and the facts of it were never contradicted.


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Hollywood has not, in the past, been stellar in its policy of choosing from appropriate ethnic groups in casting of some roles.
there is an apocraphal story of the African messanger rushing in to deliver a message to the chief in Swahili, in one of the Tarzan advetures. It was not until the film was shown in Africa that it was discovered that the line he delivered was "I'm not being paid anywhere near enough to play in this godawful film" or words to that effect.

Rod




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