Funny side note- the guy playing the indian in those ads was actually Italian!
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Thanks, you beat me to it.
“Iron Eyes” Cody.
Iron Eyes Cody. Born Espera Oscar de Corti, Iron Eyes Cody built a career off portraying Native characters in Hollywood Westerns and also presented himself as Native in his real life.
My grandmother and her brother were half Sioux Indian. When I first met my wife, I told her about my Uncle Gibert's wedding picture. He got married on a horse wearing a full headdress with his bride standing next to him in a buckskin squaw outfit. She thought that I was joking and would not believe me. When we were visiting my parents, she was looking through a photo album with my mom. They came across the wedding pictures and my wife to be, had completely forgotten that I had already told her about them.
She had long very dark hair. I told her we still had the headdress and my parents still had a bunch of horses. I told her if we got married that it was a family tradition and that we would have to find a buckskin dress for her. She didn't like the idea.