Chief Tahachee

{{short description|American actor, author}}

{{More citations needed|date=December 2007}}

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|birth_date={{birth date|1904|3|4}}

|birth_place=James Mill, Arkansas, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1978|6|9|1904|3|4}}

|death_place=San Gabriel, California, U.S.

|resting_place=Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Covina Hills, Covina, California

|occupation=Actor, author

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Chief Tahachee (born Jeff Davis "Tahchee" Cypert, March 4, 1904 – June 9, 1978) was a writer, a stage actor, a film extra, and a vaudeville performer. He claimed to be a descendant of the Old Settler Cherokees.

Chief Tahachee wrote four books: Poems of Dreams (1942), Drifting Sands (1950), An American Indian Climb Toward Truth & Wisdom (1955), and The Rough and Rowdy Ways of an American Indian Cowboy (1957).[http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/cy.htm Cy - New General Catalog of Old Books & Authors] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151201034921/http://www.authorandbookinfo.com/ngcoba/cy.htm |date=December 1, 2015 }} Poems of Dreams was his most popular and he renewed the copyright on it October 1972.[http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/us-copyright-office/us-copyright-renewals-1972-july---december-8-6/page-4-us-copyright-renewals-1972-july---december-8-6.shtml Read the ebook U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1972 July - December by US Copyright Office] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710165817/http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/us-copyright-office/us-copyright-renewals-1972-july---december-8-6/page-4-us-copyright-renewals-1972-july---december-8-6.shtml |date=July 10, 2011 }}

Chief Tahachee was an actor, stuntman and film extra in many Hollywood films produced from the 1920s to the 1960s, including westerns, film noir, drama, and historical sagas. His first film appearance was in a silent film, The Last of the Mohicans, in 1920 at the age of 16.{{Citation needed|date=December 2007}}

Tahachee was married to poet and Hollywood film extra Dorothy Lear Evelyn Teters Cypert "Nawana" Yarbrough, who also went by "Princess Neowana." After their divorce married six more times, he fathered ten children. He died June 9, 1978, in San Gabriel, California of a heart attack.[http://www.hollywoodupclose.com/celebrity-Chief%20Tahachee?cat=tv_celebrities Chief Tahachee News, Chief Tahachee Videos, and Chief Tahachee Photos]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}