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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.
Feb 7, 2006 · Buffalo Child Long Lance, writer, actor, impostor (born Sylvester Long at Winston-Salem, North Carolina on 1 December 1890; died in Arcadia, California on 20 March 1932). Of mixed Indigenous and white (and possibly black) ancestry, he was able to escape the segregated southern US because he looked "Indian."
Mar 21, 2012 · This colorful character served in the First World War, settled in Calgary and worked for the Calgary Herald under the byline Buffalo Child Long Lance. In 1922, James H. Woods became the...
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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.
Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was neither Blackfoot nor Blood from the Plains of Montana and Alberta, but rather a man of mixed heritage: European, Indigenous, and African American, who was born and raised in the factory town of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
This essay situates Chief Buffalo Child’s Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief (1928) within the cultural context of its production, the anti-Black racial climate of the Canadian Prairies in the early part of the twentieth century, in order to analyze the textual repression of its author’s Blackness.
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.
