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"...If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them, and what you do not know you will fear. What one fears one destroys."
Dan George |
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A gifted actor and chief of the Tsleil-waututh Nation in Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, Chief Dan George was born 'Geswanouth Slahoot', on July 24, 1899, in North Vancouver, British Columbia and died September 23, 1981, in Vancouver, British Columbia.He first came to prominence in a supporting role as the Indian who adopts Dustin Hoffman in Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970); for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He played a hilarious traveling companion of Clint Eastwood's in "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976) and also played the Old Sioux in the TV miniseries epic, "Centennial" (1978). After his death many wrote that Dan George would be missed. What an understatement. I still often pick up his little book, My Heart Soars.
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