Person · Actor · Active 1915–1950
Chief John Big Tree
1877–1967, Michigan
American actor, born in Michigan. Appeared in Devil's Doorway (1950) and Winners of the Wilderness (1927).
Big Tree claimed to be one of three Native American chiefs whose profiles were composited to make the portrait featured on the obverse of the United States' Indian Head nickel, designed by sculptor James Earle Fraser.
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