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Kung Fu: The Cenotaph: Part II (1974)
Lakota Language Spoken By NED ROMERO as "Lame Dog"
My focus is upon history of Native Americans, past & present, and media portrayals. In the past many Non-Native actors were painted up to portray actual Natives, with the thick halting "speak-um" English. The famous Iron Eyes Cody was actually an Italian-American (nee: Espera Oscar di Corti) Though fond of Native American culture, he was still a fraud.
In this 1974 episode of KUNG FU, I found it interesting to listen to LAKOTA Language spoken by NED ROMERO as "Lame Dog". Ned is a descendant of the Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana.
The prior year 1973, Marlon Brando sent an Apache actress Sacheen Littlefeather to the 45th Oscars to decline his Oscar for The Godfather. Sacheen read a speech instead about the plight of Native Americans. In 1973, the 71-day Occupation of Wounded Knee began in the Oglala LAKOTA reservation Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The U.S. Govt responded with force, gunfire was traded back and forth, and media brought the scenes to the Nation and World.
Which producers & writers of KUNG FU wanted the LAKOTA dialogue by Ned? I applaud.