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Dark Cloud (1855—1918) was a Native Canadian silent film actor, born Elijah Tahamont.〔(Allan Ellenberger, "Chief Dark Cloud, aka Elijah Tahamont", Hollywood Forever Cemetery (June 14, 2008) )〕 He was a chief of the Abenaki, a First Nations band government belonging to the Algonquin people of northeastern North America.〔Alexander F. Chamberlain, "Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact of the White Man and the Indian." ''The Journal of American Folklore,'' Vol. 16, No. 61 (Apr. - Jun., 1903), pp. 128-129〕 Tahamont's father, also named Elijah Tahamont, had studied at Moor's Charity School and Dartmouth College, where Native American education had been funded by a gift of £12,000 in 1767 from a Native American, Presbyterian Rev. Samson Occom.〔''(Tahamont and Wionitamente )'', Ne-Do-Ba, Androscoggin Valley Community Network〕 Moor's School had been established for "civilizing the wild, wandering Tribes of Indians in North America, and ... for promoting religion, virtue, and literature among people of all denominations."〔( Transcription of Recommendations, ''Dartmouth Library Bulletin,'' (November, 1990) )〕 Tahamont became known first as a popular lecturer, and as a model for artist Frederic Remington, the most successful Western illustrator in the “Golden Age” of illustration at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. Remington wrote and illustrated a novel, ''John Ermine of Yellowstone.'' ==Acting career== Dark Cloud began working for American Mutoscope and Biograph in New York in 1910, making his first screen appearances in the era of "eastern Westerns" under the direction of D. W. Griffith and with cinematography by Billy Bitzer. Unlike the later Westerns, featuring dramatic conflicts and indolent Natives, these early films showed Native Americans with respect: in serene, nearly still-life profile against a wide landscape, as though in calm reflection on their lives before the treaties were broken.〔Scott Simmon, ''The Invention of the Western Film: A Cultural History of the Genre's First Half-century,'' Cambridge University Press (2003), p. 17. ISBN 0-521-55581-7〕 ''The Song of the Wildwood Flute,'' with Mary Pickford and Mack Sennett, was filmed near Fishkill, New York. Dark Cloud's first movie, ''The Broken Doll,'' was made in 1910 in Coytesville, near Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Griffith also filmed ''Call of the Wild.'' Dark Cloud appeared in many Westerns and other films during the 1910s. He moved with Griffith's company to the West Coast in 1912, eventually appearing in at least 34 silent movies in a brief film career of only 8 years, cut short by the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918.〔( "Dark Cloud" filmography on IMDb )〕 He was sometimes billed as Chief Dark Cloud or as William Dark Cloud.〔 After Remington's death, Dark Cloud collaborated on making a 1917 Francis Ford movie, based on ''John Ermine of Yellowstone,'' in which "John Darkcloud" appeared as Fire Bear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dark Cloud (actor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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