Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film Star

Starring Red Wing!: The Incredible Career of Lilian M. St. Cyr, the First Native American Film StarThe epic biography Starring Red Wing! brings the exciting career, dedicated activism, and noteworthy legacy of Ho Chunk actress Lilian Margaret St. Cyr vividly to life. Known to film audiences as "Princess Red Wing," St. Cyr emerged as the most popular Native American actress in the pre Hollywood and early studio system era in the United States. Today St. Cyr is known for her portrayal of Naturich in Cecile B. DeMille's The Squaw Man (1914); although

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nearly two hundred works of art

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the population group that is most likely to be shot by police