Chief John Big Tree
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Chief John Big Tree was a Seneca actor who appeared in at least 60 films between 1915 and 1950. He was born in Buffalo, New York, and died in Onondaga Indian Reservation, New York. His interment was a
Big Tree in Fighting Caravans (1931)
U.S. Indian Head nickel, for which Big Tree claimed he was one of three models
James Earle Fraser's sculpture, End of the Trail, for which Big Tree claimed he was the model
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
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She Wore a Yellow Ribbon is a 1949 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne, with Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, and Harry Carey Jr in supporting roles. It is the secon
Chief John Big Tree
…1915 and 1950. Often uncredited, he had a noted speaking role in his second to last picture, the middle of John Ford's celebrated "Cavalry Trilogy", She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949). As Chief Pony That Walks he has an extended dialogue with his old friend, Cavalry captain Nathan Brittles (played by John Wayne), who seeks the…
Theatrical release poster
Joanne Dru as Olivia and John Wayne as Captain Nathan Brittles
The Post Headquarters building, where Captain Brittles is quartered in the film, is located at Goulding's Trading Post near Monument Valley.