My favorite Indian has always been Iron Eyes Cody. Then I ran across this site that was supposed to have his burial site. Of course they always buried Indians up on the wooden platforms, but I wasn't sure how he was going to be buried.
When I got to the web site, of course he was buried in a cemetery with a headstone, and I found out his real name was, "Espera de Corti," a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily. In some of his earliest acting credits Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. He would soon change his name and claim to be part Cherokee and part Cree.
In 1996, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported his Sicilian heritage, but Cody denied it at the time because he was "ashamed" of his Italian heritage. Cody and his wife Bertha adopted several children, all Native Americans.
So he was not an Indian at all. I wonder if he had all the Indians in the movies fooled too? I thought they had some kind of agreement with the Actor's Union or what ever you call it, that American Indians would play the part of the Indians. I might of dreamed that one up.
That burns my rear end up anyway.
Chuckie
When I got to the web site, of course he was buried in a cemetery with a headstone, and I found out his real name was, "Espera de Corti," a son of Antonio de Corti and his wife Francesca Salpietra, immigrants from Sicily. In some of his earliest acting credits Cody was listed as Tony de Corti. He would soon change his name and claim to be part Cherokee and part Cree.
In 1996, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported his Sicilian heritage, but Cody denied it at the time because he was "ashamed" of his Italian heritage. Cody and his wife Bertha adopted several children, all Native Americans.
So he was not an Indian at all. I wonder if he had all the Indians in the movies fooled too? I thought they had some kind of agreement with the Actor's Union or what ever you call it, that American Indians would play the part of the Indians. I might of dreamed that one up.
That burns my rear end up anyway.
Chuckie