I got to meet Iron Eyes back in the early 90s at an art show I did yearly in San Dimas California.. The first year he attended the show as a guest.. I was asked to give him a tour of the show.. He was so real to me.. and I'd grown up watching his, I believe, once a week appearance on the Mickey Mouse Club, with history and traditions of the Native Americans.. My main subject matter in my art, which is bronze statues of Western Characters, impressed him.. One year that he attended with that awful wig with the Eagle Feather on his right braid.. I was coming back to my seat after winning a medal for my art.. I passed him at his table and he took my arm and said.. I videoed you Dave.. I loved that man. After he passed and it was learned he was actually Sicilian.. It didn't make me think less of him. He loved the 1st People's history and traditions so much, he literally became one of them. He so honored them and their ways that he'd never ever insult their ways.. He glorified them. God please bless his dear soul.
When I was 5 years-old, my family visited Mount Rushmore, and my twin and I had our picture taken with him. I remember it like it was yesterday. Such a quiet and sweet man. 💜💜💜💜
Wow! We all still talk about the famous indian in the canoe. I didn’t know. Thank you 🙏 I am Native and hold no bad ill towards this man who did so much good. He enlightened many.
Iron Eyes Cody did bring focus on the plight of pollution of our planet and on the Natives of this country. For that he earned his fame . May he rest in peace and his family always be blessed.
Absolutely not. This ad was sponsored by companies that generated non reusable non recyclable for profit, subtlety shifting the responsibility of environmental pollution from the producers of these products to the consumer. Please don’t take my word for it-there are enough other YT clips and channels as well as the internet who are better versed in this than I.
I met his son, "Tree Cody," when I volunteered at a museum. I think he said he was 6' 7". Very nice gentleman. He is a musician, plays the Indian flute. I had several of his tapes that I gave to a friend. His wife is definitely Native American.
Met him along with my entire grade school in 1975 or 76 when he did a tour in our area. Quite surprising to me now, as our school was VERY small (less than 200 total students), and it was the only public school in the county (small, rural Indiana). He was very kind and answered all the questions. I was very impressed as he seemed to really care about being there.
Wow. Thank you CC you did him well. No malice toward him. I have seen most of those old B&W movies on the big screen with my dad, back in the day. Just to remind those of us who forget. Movie actors tend to step out of character when not in front of the camera. I cannot see or did I know of any stupid stuff he ever did while staying in character. With that said. He did well to live his life the way he did. Unlike some who also stay in character and just screw up all the time and bring other's down with them. RIP Iron Eyes Cody. And thanks this was worth you staying up late. :)
He wanted to be an American Indian so bad that he lived and died as an American Indian. You already know all the good things he did. So, to me he was an American Indian.
He has a lot of history with people over the many yrs. My girlfriends mother used to dance with him at Pow-Wows in CA., she was a traditional tribal story teller and liked him a lot.
He probably did more for the environment & people's awareness of it than anyone else at that time or up to today. I wish so many others were that concerned. We don't need to shut down our industry or economy to make a big transition, just do it right & not pollute.
I met him at the 1984 Memphis Film Festival. I asked him if I could see that teardrop. It was my way of saying: 'I agree with you. People start pollution... people can stop it'.
I remember that commercial from when I was a little kid. Made a lasting impact. "I did not inherit the Earth from my fathers, I am borrowing it from my children"
@@CoolClassics The place where I would recycle aluminum cans had this saying framed and hanging on their wall. It was claimed to be an old American Indian proverb.
He was a beautiful soul,who embodied his ancestors...he was one of the best ,definitely impacted my life for the good...I was born in 67 and remember growing up and watching the commercial and crying everytime it popped up..
I was visiting a casino on Native American land in Northern Michigan. The surrounding woodlands was full of every kind of trash you could imagine. I immediately remembered that very commercial and thought, "how ironic".
It just proves that you can't judge a person by their looks. The flesh means nothing. My son was more Indian than Iron Eyes. He was half Chippewa. He had red hair and freckles. They would never cast him as Indian. I miss him
I agree & have a friend whose son is half Shawnee but took the looks of his mother. He has freckles and fully braided red hair down to his belt with a very cool meaningful name, Tecumseh, I know what you mean.
I dated a half Cherokee half German fella. His bone structure was broad and sharp, and didn't grow much body hair, but his coloring was described as 'bleached snow'. Sunscreen only delayed the inevitable. Whenever he got burned, he would start singing that nutty Peter Pan song. His humor was totally wicked -to my delight, not so much my parents. Sorry about your son. He must be a great kid.
I remember the TV commercial as well I was a child then about the age of 9 or 10 and I remember seeing him and maybe one or two movies but I never knew he made so many and the part about him being Italian is another mind blower I was totally convinced he was an Indian anyway thank you for this information this is all new to me each time I watch one of these videos
Really don't care what race he was, he was a good person and did a lot of good. The rest of the negativity is by real haters that cause more hate than solve much. HE was Italian, and a hell of a good American/Indian!
Well said - as one of Sicilian and Cherokee decent , I find this very fulfilling - and , as a Cherokee medicine man and personal mentor once told me , "being Indian is not a matter of blood , but a matter of Spirit "
I had a chance to see him give a talk at a local Boy Scout Camp back in about 1990. Unfortunately I couldn't attend due to a prior commitment that I regretted going to afterwards. In a way, being Native American is a state of mind. Iron Eyes was Native American in every way but genetics. I myself found out through a geneological study, that I have a tiny amount of Cherokee blood. This helped explain to me my love of nature and environmental studies. Thank you for this posting. I'm now subscribed.
Thank you for all this research and presentation. We need a new hero for this new generation. Who should we get that would be respected and help people stop trashing our world? Someone young. They do not respect us old people.
I would love to see a new version of this commercial and movement, but only if it would be as impactful as this one was. I do not have a clue who would be the prefect person for the job. I am kind of thinking it would need to be a regular person that just resonates with the public :)
Throughout history many people have "Adopted" a lifestyle or culture that in reality was not their own.. Iron eyes Cody did just that. Many who knew him said that he held a profound love for all things Native American.. There was no crime in what he did and it certainly helped the plight of Native Americans... No harm...No foul...
I remember getting teary eyed as a kid when I watched the commercial! But I'm not surprised that he wasn't a real Native American Indian, I always thought he didn't really look it, but I don't see what he did as any kind of insult or bad in anyway, he garnered a lot of respect towards Native Americans! Both my parents had Cherokee, in fact my great grandfather on my mothers side was a full blooded Cherokee, my fathers mother too were too, but we had less info on her parents! But both my grandmothers had a deep tanned skin!
His commercial was and still is my favorite. Whenever I look up on a mountain I hope to see him on his horse. I was born in 1972 and remember his commercials very vividly. Thanks again. And to me he will always be the last Indian of America.
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones No , not at all. Your name, "the ugly truth" reminded me of a wise statement from Star Trek and I thought that I would share it with you. And besides, I never argue on a Thursday. Respectfully your subscriber.
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones That's so sweet, it really is. We exist in relation to others. I named myself Super Ficial because I'm a genius with the mind of an idiot.
I went and looked. You are correct! I collected nickels back in the 80's and never even thought they based the design off of a real person. Seems the internet is good for some things and horrible for others. 🤣
@@CoolClassics Here is an interesting fact. If you Google image black couples, you'll get 100% black couples. If you Google image white couples, you'll get maybe 40% white couples (mostly mixed couples). The internet has racial issues.
When an Indian is born the Father goes outside and names his child after the first thing he sees.... Did his Father see two moons?????? Cause we have two moons but one only comes around every so often. Penny for your thoughts And a nickels worth of truth
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones Here'a dime. ººHere is a very simple experiment... Cast the shadow of a ball (Earth) onto another ball (Moon). You do not get the crescents that we see during a lunar eclipse, the Earth is not a globe. Crescents are caused by the Moon phasing or dipping in and out of the Thrum (The Waters). Nature forbids a void. Space is fake, space is water held back by the Raqia aka firmament. Take a plate/dish and submerge three quarters of it into water at a slight angle, the remaining quarter would be the first quarter Moon. We know that they are lying to us about everything. Earth is flat and we are the center of Creation.
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones ººEach new generation is being dumbed down and this is where we are at today. This is the crap that they taught us and are now teaching our children. Look at any diagram of the solar eclipse that you can find. They all have the same four lies. Lie #1…In reality the Sun does not appear five to ten times bigger than the Moon, they appear as the same size. Lie #2…In reality light rays always travel at a 90º angle, they do not travel from top down and from bottom up. Lie #3…In reality light rays always runs parallel, they do not converge or diverge. Lie #4…In reality there is only one source of light, not two. (Which explains why the oversized Sun) They are trying to hide Creation from us. Look on the internet. You will not find any illustrates of what we actually see, Where the Sun & Moon fit each other. You will only find illustrates of what they want us to believe. (What's so hard about drawing two circles that are the same size) ? ººWhen the Sun goes down you can see that there is darkness to the right of the Sun and there is darkness to the left side of the Sun. That means two things, the Sun is local and it’s small. ºWe can see that there is moonlight shinning on local clouds only and it is because of our perception that we can see that there is no moonlight on nonlocal Clouds. That is, it’s not that we can’t see the moonlight it is we can see the darkness. This means that the Moon is also locale and small. ººCrepuscular rays (Sun beams through clouds) offers evidence that the Sun is localized and much smaller than they tell us. Just listen to the way that sounds, “They tell us ” It always comes down to that, it's always a matter of trust. We never really know for our selves, do we ?
He was in a comedy called, Spirit of 76. He seemed to always be in character. I have fond memories of his PSA's. Too bad politicians have no idea what goodwill is today. If he seen what everyone has done after he died, it would give him a heart attack. Now we have people that really don't care. Bring his public service announcements back!
He's Italian! Holy wow! I never would have guessed! I always loved him and the way he portrayed -an Indian- a Native American. I remember that commercial very well. It always made me sad to see his tear fall.
Sicilian not Italian.And he denied it his whole life.Claiming to be of Native American Heritage,denying your own heritage,just to get acting gigs.He was a LIAR And A Piece Of SHIT.
He was a very nice man. I worked with him on "Spirit of '76" where he played a take on his iconic role in the TV commercial. He told me the tear was visine.
Thank you. I feel how you respectfully brought the truth to light. 🥂🍾 Interesting. I’m 61, I remembered the commercial , from 1968...🤔, I thought. The “ big Indian “ as I thought of him , had a positive influence on me also. LOL his wife took his “secret” to the bank. It’s all good. America has less litter because of Mr. Cody.
Aw, I don’t care who he was or wasn’t, I always took him as Native American. I remember that commercial as a kid. It made me sad to see him cry as people littered and threw trash at his feet.😢
I'm not sure if you will read this or not...but how about the cast of The Jeffersons. Lots of interesting characters on that show : ) I've watched all your vids and am on the second run : ) Thanks for all your time compiling these videos...it's nice to watch something other than horrible news.
That explains my confusion. I met him once in kingsville texas. I was amazed at how white he was, I mean (just got out of prison) white. He also had blue eyes, I don't know if he was born with blue eyes, or if they they turned blue with age because he was pretty old when I met him. This was around 1981-83. I remember thinking he didn't look like an Indian in person. By the way Mr. Haney from Green Acres was also at the fund raising event. He and Iron eyes were sitting together.
@@CoolClassics Having watched the Mr. Ed shows when they originally aired, I can state that you don't sound like Rocky Lane (voice of Mr. Ed) to me. Not knowing you, I can't say whether you eat as much as Mr. Ed or not. lol Enjoyed above video of Iron Eyes.
When I was very little about 3/4 of my friends were either Cree or Blackfoot Indian. But I had no idea they were Indian! I knew what Indians looked like, we had a TV. I knew Indians looked like, what I would now call Italians & Jews with face paint, feathers in buckskins. When I over heard my dad tell my mom - " I didn't know Sammy was Indian", I was astounded to the bone.
5:18 Iron Eyes made several public appearances with my mom, Western entertainer Carolina Cotton. This one was at Tiny Town kiddie amusement park in Compton, CA around 1952. She enjoyed working with him.
Poor Hilaria Baldwin was practically crucified when she was exposed as not being from Spain nor having one DNA drop of Spanish blood but no one bats an eye at Iron Eyes Cody pretending to be Native American. Both Hilaria and Iron Eyes hurt no one with their pretense and both are/were good people.
I was a child when that iconic littering commercial aired. It made me so aware of littering that to this day I keep the trash picked up on my road. Today it's sad to think that because of political correct terms like " cultural appropriation" his great commercial would not be allowed.
Any critical viewers should understand that being Indian is a way of life and not necessarily a thing of blood . Iron eyes , had a native American heart .
It seems that I knew he wasn't Native American long before the 1990s, but maybe memory is playing tricks on me. I remember well the anti-litter commercials he performed in.
A number of years ago I mentioned this very fact on some social media network, that Iron Eyes Cody was indeed of Italian decent and not native American. I got some very indignant emails just for pointing out this fact . It was never my intention, I explained further, to attack his moral character, only to state the truth . To the best of my knowledge Iron Eyes never portrayed, or presented the American Indian in any way disrespectful. But his portrayal, however was disingenuous, never admitting til his dying day the truth of his origin. Maybe in his heart and spirit he truly was Indian, he carried the role with impeccable detail and taste , but this falsehood he carried on made him also a lot of money a point that many who liked him fail to realize. (I liked him as well)
i met him, when i biked frum Mesa,Az. to LA, for pow wow at Compten college. 1982. Mom introduced near entrance of field we camped in. he like Grey Owl are as much native in spirit matters ore than blood in this case. i thot tribes adopted him or not recall rebuff. nor really think in much of any who. im 1/16 Lakota frum Red Cloud side. but Half is native , my gud half inside...
I use to cry every single time that commercial came on. We didn’t have remote controls & you didn’t want to get up & change the channel because then, one of your siblings would steal your gr8 spot on the couch! 😂
They need to show those exact public announcement messages now. Desert Hot Springs Ca. had a Iron Eyes Cody Day he attended. Complete with a parade, marching bands and all. I never knew he was a fake native American. That's Great!!!
My sister and I were told growing up all our lives we were part native American and when I got older I had a DNA test done. And found out I'm not native American at all. I was sad to find out I wasn't. But it helped shape my values. Thanks mom. 👍
Don't give up on you oral history, document it as best you can. As I understand it, there are technical issues with tracking Native American DNA, especially once it's been diluted over a few generations. Hold that heritage in your heart even if modern science can't yet prove it.
Who's to say that some native Americans didn't originally come from Sicily and other Southern European places. They have found out a lot of interesting things from modern DNA research.
I know this sounds really bad but I was alittle kid and this use to play in the middle of the night. He scared me and I couldn’t sleep. This was the 90s ! So it played for a long time
It was greenwashing. In 1953, Vermont’s state legislature had a brain wave: beer companies start pollution, legislation can stop it. They passed a statute banning the sale of beer and ale in one-way bottles. It wasn’t a deposit law - it declared that beer could only be sold in returnable, reusable bottles. Anchor-Hocking, a glass manufacturer, immediately filed suit, calling the law unconstitutional. The Vermont Supreme Court disagreed in May 1954, and the law took effect. That October, Keep America Beautiful was born, declaring its intention to “break Americans of the habit of tossing litter into streets and out of car windows.” The New York Times noted that the group’s leaders included “executives of concerns manufacturing beer, beer cans, bottles, soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes and other products.” These disciples of disposability, led by William C. Stolk, president of the American Can Company, set about changing the terms in the conversation about litter. The packaging industry justifies disposables as a response to consumer demand: buyers wanted convenience; packagers simply provided it. But that’s not exactly true. Consumers had to be trained to be wasteful. Part of this re-education involved forestalling any debate over the wisdom of creating disposables in the first place, replacing it with an emphasis on “proper” disposal. Keep America Beautiful led this refocusing on the symptoms rather than the system. The trouble was not their industry’s promulgation of throwaway stuff; the trouble was those oafs who threw it away.
I knew he was Italian. I didnt know about his wife and kids. And playing the part of being an Indian in real life. Kinda weird. But that's Hollywood for yeah.
To be honest I’m not impressed with the “stolen honor” of claiming to be Native American or anything else you’re not. But his last statement kinda got me.
I got to meet Iron Eyes back in the early 90s at an art show I did yearly in San Dimas California.. The first year he attended the show as a guest.. I was asked to give him a tour of the show.. He was so real to me.. and I'd grown up watching his, I believe, once a week appearance on the Mickey Mouse Club, with history and traditions of the Native Americans.. My main subject matter in my art, which is bronze statues of Western Characters, impressed him.. One year that he attended with that awful wig with the Eagle Feather on his right braid.. I was coming back to my seat after winning a medal for my art.. I passed him at his table and he took my arm and said.. I videoed you Dave.. I loved that man.
After he passed and it was learned he was actually Sicilian.. It didn't make me think less of him. He loved the 1st People's history and traditions so much, he literally became one of them. He so honored them and their ways that he'd never ever insult their ways.. He glorified them.
God please bless his dear soul.
When I was 5 years-old, my family visited Mount Rushmore, and my twin and I had our picture taken with him. I remember it like it was yesterday. Such a quiet and sweet man. 💜💜💜💜
Such a nice and touching story 🙂 Those good memories is something we need to hold on to, during these tough times.
Wow! We all still talk about the famous indian in the canoe. I didn’t know. Thank you 🙏 I am Native and hold no bad ill towards this man who did so much good. He enlightened many.
I agree with all the ad needs to be aired again, along with school house rock.
Conjunction junction, what’s your function? Rock on bro!
They really should run those commercials today it was such a classic commercial probably a lot of commercials from back then could be run today
Iron Eyes Cody did bring focus on the plight of pollution of our planet and on the Natives of this country. For that he earned his fame . May he rest in peace and his family always be blessed.
Government needs to air that public service announcenent again Now.
Especially to the big corporations that contribute much pollution.
Absolutely not. This ad was sponsored by companies that generated non reusable non recyclable for profit, subtlety shifting the responsibility of environmental pollution from the producers of these products to the consumer. Please don’t take my word for it-there are enough other YT clips and channels as well as the internet who are better versed in this than I.
I met his son, "Tree Cody," when I volunteered at a museum. I think he said he was 6' 7". Very nice gentleman. He is a musician, plays the Indian flute. I had several of his tapes that I gave to a friend. His wife is definitely Native American.
Met him along with my entire grade school in 1975 or 76 when he did a tour in our area. Quite surprising to me now, as our school was VERY small (less than 200 total students), and it was the only public school in the county (small, rural Indiana). He was very kind and answered all the questions. I was very impressed as he seemed to really care about being there.
Wow. Thank you CC you did him well. No malice toward him. I have seen most of those old B&W movies on the big screen with my dad, back in the day. Just to remind those of us who forget. Movie actors tend to step out of character when not in front of the camera. I cannot see or did I know of any stupid stuff he ever did while staying in character. With that said. He did well to live his life the way he did. Unlike some who also stay in character and just screw up all the time and bring other's down with them. RIP Iron Eyes Cody. And thanks this was worth you staying up late. :)
He wanted to be an American Indian so bad that he lived and died as an American Indian. You already know all the good things he did. So, to me he was an American Indian.
But he wasn't
Sure I remember that commercial, made an impression on me
Another great one, thanks.
He has a lot of history with people over the many yrs. My girlfriends mother used to dance with him at Pow-Wows in CA., she was a traditional tribal story teller and liked him a lot.
I am hearing so many good stories about him from these comments :)
He probably did more for the environment & people's awareness of it than anyone else at that time or up to today.
I wish so many others were that concerned.
We don't need to shut down our industry or economy to make a big transition, just do it right & not pollute.
Clever ad campeign
I met him at the 1984 Memphis Film Festival. I asked him if I could see that teardrop. It was my way of saying: 'I agree with you. People start pollution... people can stop it'.
I remember that commercial from when I was a little kid. Made a lasting impact.
"I did not inherit the Earth from my fathers, I am borrowing it from my children"
That is a great quote!
@@CoolClassics The place where I would recycle aluminum cans had this saying framed and hanging on their wall. It was claimed to be an old American Indian proverb.
"michael weir" Only if your children are male and can become fathers themselves.
He was a beautiful soul,who embodied his ancestors...he was one of the best ,definitely impacted my life for the good...I was born in 67 and remember growing up and watching the commercial and crying everytime it popped up..
The crying Indian is from Italy! He always enjoyed playing the part of a native American.
I remember that commercial. He is the reason I stopped littering. True story.
I was visiting a casino on Native American land in Northern Michigan. The surrounding woodlands was full of every kind of trash you could imagine.
I immediately remembered that very commercial and thought, "how ironic".
Me too !!!💕
@@Nightgig It's the same here in Arizona. Very ironic.
@@Nightgig 😀
It just proves that you can't judge a person by their looks. The flesh means nothing. My son was more Indian than Iron Eyes. He was half Chippewa. He had red hair and freckles. They would never cast him as Indian.
I miss him
I agree & have a friend whose son is half Shawnee but took the looks of his mother. He has freckles and fully braided red hair down to his belt with a very cool meaningful name, Tecumseh, I know what you mean.
@@josephstorm6093 I'm sorry for your loss
I dated a half Cherokee half German fella. His bone structure was broad and sharp, and didn't grow much body hair, but his coloring was described as 'bleached snow'. Sunscreen only delayed the inevitable. Whenever he got burned, he would start singing that nutty Peter Pan song. His humor was totally wicked -to my delight, not so much my parents. Sorry about your son. He must be a great kid.
Wow, all this time, I thought he was native American, now only to find out, he wasn't. Mind...blown.
Thanks for stayin up late to post!
I remember the TV commercial as well I was a child then about the age of 9 or 10 and I remember seeing him and maybe one or two movies but I never knew he made so many and the part about him being Italian is another mind blower I was totally convinced he was an Indian anyway thank you for this information this is all new to me each time I watch one of these videos
I always loved him, thank you
Very good video
That “Native American Indian “ ,Iron Eyes Cody , was an ITALIAN ACTOR !!
Really don't care what race he was, he was a good person and did a lot of good. The rest of the negativity is by real haters that cause more hate than solve much. HE was Italian, and a hell of a good American/Indian!
Amen!
He lied for years. I wonder why. I'm not a hater. I just think it's bizarre.
Well said - as one of Sicilian and Cherokee decent , I find this very fulfilling - and , as a Cherokee medicine man and personal mentor once told me , "being Indian is not a matter of blood , but a matter of Spirit "
'wait a minute; that's 4/20' 😁😁...but seriously I totally remember this commercial as a kid & it has always stuck with me. Nice video! Thanx ! 🙂
I had a chance to see him give a talk at a local Boy Scout Camp back in about 1990. Unfortunately I couldn't attend due to a prior commitment that I regretted going to afterwards.
In a way, being Native American is a state of mind. Iron Eyes was Native American in every way but genetics.
I myself found out through a geneological study, that I have a tiny amount of Cherokee blood. This helped explain to me my love of nature and environmental studies.
Thank you for this posting. I'm now subscribed.
Thank you for all this research and presentation. We need a new hero for this new generation. Who should we get that would be respected and help people stop trashing our world? Someone young. They do not respect us old people.
I would love to see a new version of this commercial and movement, but only if it would be as impactful as this one was. I do not have a clue who would be the prefect person for the job. I am kind of thinking it would need to be a regular person that just resonates with the public :)
Throughout history many people have "Adopted" a lifestyle or culture that in reality was not their own.. Iron eyes Cody did just that. Many who knew him said that he held a profound love for all things Native American.. There was no crime in what he did and it certainly helped the plight of Native Americans... No harm...No foul...
Isn't the left complaining about "cultural appropriation"?
Another great video! Thanks for doing this research. Fascinating
Very nice presentation. thank you
An actor acts, Mr Iron eyes coty was an actor.
I was born in 85 and I remember seeing this commercial in the early 90s soo it ran for decades!
I remember getting teary eyed as a kid when I watched the commercial! But I'm not surprised that he wasn't a real Native American Indian, I always thought he didn't really look it, but I don't see what he did as any kind of insult or bad in anyway, he garnered a lot of respect towards Native Americans!
Both my parents had Cherokee, in fact my great grandfather on my mothers side was a full blooded Cherokee, my fathers mother too were too, but we had less info on her parents! But both my grandmothers had a deep tanned skin!
His commercial was and still is my favorite. Whenever I look up on a mountain I hope to see him on his horse. I was born in 1972 and remember his commercials very vividly. Thanks again. And to me he will always be the last Indian of America.
Is there is truth, no beauty ? From Star Trek's, For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky.
@@super_ficial I'm sorry are we arguing?
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones No , not at all. Your name, "the ugly truth" reminded me of a wise statement from Star Trek and I thought that I would share it with you. And besides, I never argue on a Thursday. Respectfully your subscriber.
@@super_ficial my girlfriends name is
" A lovely lie " so I made mine what it is
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones That's so sweet, it really is. We exist in relation to others.
I named myself Super Ficial because I'm a genius with the mind of an idiot.
I did not know he was in Movies.Thank You
The Indian's name on the buffalo head nickel is Two Moons. He was one of the chiefs at Little Big Horn and went on to become a diplomat.
I went and looked. You are correct!
I collected nickels back in the 80's and never even thought they based the design off of a real person. Seems the internet is good for some things and horrible for others. 🤣
@@CoolClassics Here is an interesting fact. If you Google image black couples, you'll get 100% black couples. If you Google image white couples, you'll get maybe 40% white couples (mostly mixed couples). The internet has racial issues.
When an Indian is born the Father goes outside and names his child after the first thing he sees.... Did his Father see two moons?????? Cause we have two moons but one only comes around every so often.
Penny for your thoughts
And a nickels worth of truth
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones Here'a dime.
ººHere is a very simple experiment...
Cast the shadow of a ball (Earth) onto another ball (Moon). You do not get the crescents that we see during a lunar eclipse, the Earth is not a globe.
Crescents are caused by the Moon phasing or dipping in and out of the Thrum (The Waters). Nature forbids a void. Space is fake, space is water held back by the Raqia aka firmament. Take a plate/dish and submerge three quarters of it into water at a slight angle, the remaining quarter would be the first quarter Moon. We know that they are lying to us about everything.
Earth is flat and we are the center of Creation.
@@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones ººEach new generation is being dumbed down and this is where we are at today.
This is the crap that they taught us and are now teaching our children.
Look at any diagram of the solar eclipse that you can find. They all have the same four lies.
Lie #1…In reality the Sun does not appear five to ten times bigger than the Moon, they appear as the same size.
Lie #2…In reality light rays always travel at a 90º angle, they do not travel from top down and from bottom up.
Lie #3…In reality light rays always runs parallel, they do not converge or diverge.
Lie #4…In reality there is only one source of light, not two. (Which explains why the oversized Sun)
They are trying to hide Creation from us.
Look on the internet. You will not find any illustrates of what we actually see, Where the Sun & Moon fit each other. You will only find illustrates of what they want us to believe. (What's so hard about drawing two circles that are the same size) ?
ººWhen the Sun goes down you can see that there is darkness to the right of the Sun and there is darkness to the left side of the Sun. That means two things, the Sun is local and it’s small.
ºWe can see that there is moonlight shinning on local clouds only and it is because of our perception that we can see that there is no moonlight on nonlocal Clouds. That is, it’s not that we can’t see the moonlight it is we can see the darkness. This means that the Moon is also locale and small.
ººCrepuscular rays (Sun beams through clouds) offers evidence that the Sun is localized and much smaller than they tell us. Just listen to the way that sounds, “They tell us ” It always comes down to that, it's always a matter of trust. We never really know for our selves, do we ?
Was crying because all the pollution and litter ,man was leaving of the beauiful land
He was in a comedy called, Spirit of 76.
He seemed to always be in character. I have fond memories of his PSA's. Too bad politicians have no idea what goodwill is today. If he seen what everyone has done after he died, it would give him a heart attack. Now we have people that really don't care.
Bring his public service announcements back!
I enjoy your in depth biography into the lives of the folks that you report on. You always seem to bring out the truth and the best in them.
I appreciate that
He's Italian! Holy wow! I never would have guessed! I always loved him and the way he portrayed -an Indian- a Native American. I remember that commercial very well. It always made me sad to see his tear fall.
I am an American Indian .cherokee and apache.
Wow! I remember that commercial as a child! I always thought he was a Native American. If he wasn't, he played it well!
I knew in the 70's he was Italian--In arizona I met several people played being Indian in everyday normal life
May be they are truly Indian.
How did you know? Your response didn't give it away for me.
@@paulforester6996 was married to a navajo who was connected to a lot of famous people
Sicilian not Italian.And he denied it his whole life.Claiming to be of Native American Heritage,denying your own heritage,just to get acting gigs.He was a LIAR And A Piece Of SHIT.
I miss the old days of 3 maybe 4 tv channels where folks had real conversations. 😀
A friend of mine invited me to his Aunt and uncle house in Burbank Ca. Cool dude.
loved 60's /70's psa's
He was a very nice man. I worked with him on "Spirit of '76" where he played a take on his iconic role in the TV commercial. He told me the tear was visine.
Today he'd have been canceled.
Yup
Binge watching your videos
Thank you. I feel how you respectfully brought the truth to light. 🥂🍾 Interesting. I’m 61, I remembered the commercial , from 1968...🤔, I thought. The “ big Indian “ as I thought of him , had a positive influence on me also. LOL his wife took his “secret” to the bank. It’s all good. America has less litter because of Mr. Cody.
Yes I remember that commercial.
Aw, I don’t care who he was or wasn’t, I always took him as Native American. I remember that commercial as a kid. It made me sad to see him cry as people littered and threw trash at his feet.😢
Ernest Goes to Camp is the one I recognized him from
I'm not sure if you will read this or not...but how about the cast of The Jeffersons. Lots of interesting characters on that show : ) I've watched all your vids and am on the second run : ) Thanks for all your time compiling these videos...it's nice to watch something other than horrible news.
I loved that commercial. Had no idea he wasn't an Indian. They need to start showing that again. People are much worse now throwing trash around.
Because he wasn't an Indian at al, he was an Italian actor
That explains my confusion.
I met him once in kingsville texas. I was amazed at how white he was, I mean (just got out of prison) white. He also had blue eyes, I don't know if he was born with blue eyes, or if they they turned blue with age because he was pretty old when I met him. This was around 1981-83. I remember thinking he didn't look like an Indian in person.
By the way Mr. Haney from Green Acres was also at the fund raising event. He and Iron eyes were sitting together.
@@oscarantoniomoreno5247 , was Mr Haney the actor that looked like Ted Cancun Cruz ?
@@jtoo6060 that's the one. 😆
You sound a lot like: “Mr. E.” 😄❤️
Link me to this Mr. E please
Hoping it is not Mr. Ed the horse 😅
@@CoolClassics Having watched the Mr. Ed shows when they originally aired, I can state that you don't sound like Rocky Lane (voice of Mr. Ed) to me. Not knowing you, I can't say whether you eat as much as Mr. Ed or not. lol Enjoyed above video of Iron Eyes.
When I was very little about 3/4 of my friends were either Cree or Blackfoot Indian. But I had no idea they were Indian! I knew what Indians looked like, we had a TV. I knew Indians looked like, what I would now call Italians & Jews with face paint, feathers in buckskins. When I over heard my dad tell my mom - " I didn't know Sammy was Indian", I was astounded to the bone.
I’m 60, and I never knew this
5:18 Iron Eyes made several public appearances with my mom, Western entertainer Carolina Cotton. This one was at Tiny Town kiddie amusement park in Compton, CA around 1952. She enjoyed working with him.
SAL MINEO another native American Italian - Cheyenne Autumn.
Nat Wood & Yule Brenner Russian NatAms.
Littering was always evil to me, since I was a kid.....When his commercial came out...I thought RIGHT ON!
People have been re-inventing themselves from time immemorial. You are what you think, and believe, you are.
You are what God made you to be. You can pretend to be whatever you want, but God knows, and you cannot fool God.
I think I'm Princess Leia :) I think I am, I think I am, I think I am.............
Found a niche and filled it. I'm not condoning lying, but what is Hollywood but one big lie?
Poor Hilaria Baldwin was practically crucified when she was exposed as not being from Spain nor having one DNA drop of Spanish blood but no one bats an eye at Iron Eyes Cody pretending to be Native American. Both Hilaria and Iron Eyes hurt no one with their pretense and both are/were good people.
I was a child when that iconic littering commercial aired. It made me so aware of littering that to this day I keep the trash picked up on my road. Today it's sad to think that because of political correct terms like " cultural appropriation" his great commercial would not be allowed.
More videos please!
Any critical viewers should understand that being Indian is a way of life and not necessarily a thing of blood . Iron eyes , had a native American heart .
Wow! How fascinating!
Probably crying because he wasn't native American at all, but made his living as one. He was actually Italian born Espera Oscar de Corti.
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It seems that I knew he wasn't Native American long before the 1990s, but maybe memory is playing tricks on me. I remember well the anti-litter commercials he performed in.
His sister is Elizabeth Warren but she only rides Mr. Ed in the mountains.
Does anyone remember "Give a Hoot, Don't Polute"!
Yes!
Because his makeup artist just sprayed fake tears in his eye for the photo opportunity, video.
A number of years ago I mentioned this very fact on some social media network, that Iron Eyes Cody was indeed of Italian decent and not native American. I got some very indignant emails just for pointing out this fact . It was never my intention, I explained further, to attack his moral character, only to state the truth . To the best of my knowledge Iron Eyes never portrayed, or presented the American Indian in any way disrespectful. But his portrayal, however was disingenuous, never admitting til his dying day the truth of his origin. Maybe in his heart and spirit he truly was Indian, he carried the role with impeccable detail and taste , but this falsehood he carried on made him also a lot of money a point that many who liked him fail to realize. (I liked him as well)
Makes you wonder if he was proud of his Italian heritage.
i met him, when i biked frum Mesa,Az. to LA, for pow wow at Compten college. 1982. Mom introduced near entrance of field we camped in. he like Grey Owl are as much native in spirit matters ore than blood in this case. i thot tribes adopted him or not recall rebuff. nor really think in much of any who. im 1/16 Lakota frum Red Cloud side. but Half is native , my gud half inside...
I use to cry every single time that commercial came on. We didn’t have remote controls & you didn’t want to get up & change the channel because then, one of your siblings would steal your gr8 spot on the couch! 😂
Good actor. Italian guy playing an Indian. His brother did the same.
He came to my school when I was a kid
Italian - American in flesh, but Native American in heart. The prayer mentioned is from a translated Lakota Sioux prayer from 1887.
They need to be playing that ad on TV now!!!
I stopped leaving trash and litter any place after that commercial
They need to show those exact public announcement messages now. Desert Hot Springs Ca. had a Iron Eyes Cody Day he attended. Complete with a parade, marching bands and all. I never knew he was a fake native American. That's Great!!!
The crying Italian 🇮🇹😆
My sister and I were told growing up all our lives we were part native American and when I got older I had a DNA test done. And found out I'm not native American at all. I was sad to find out I wasn't. But it helped shape my values. Thanks mom. 👍
James get another DNA test because they can.t get true reading on American native.
Don't give up on you oral history, document it as best you can. As I understand it, there are technical issues with tracking Native American DNA, especially once it's been diluted over a few generations. Hold that heritage in your heart even if modern science can't yet prove it.
Who's to say that some native Americans didn't originally come from Sicily and other Southern European places. They have found out a lot of interesting things from modern DNA research.
Keep America Beautiful. We might get it back😜.
I know this sounds really bad but I was alittle kid and this use to play in the middle of the night. He scared me and I couldn’t sleep. This was the 90s ! So it played for a long time
It really is frustrating to see people outright later it drives me nuts
You kinda sound like Mr E 😉😁
It was greenwashing.
In 1953, Vermont’s state legislature had a brain wave: beer companies start pollution, legislation can stop it. They passed a statute banning the sale of beer and ale in one-way bottles. It wasn’t a deposit law - it declared that beer could only be sold in returnable, reusable bottles. Anchor-Hocking, a glass manufacturer, immediately filed suit, calling the law unconstitutional. The Vermont Supreme Court disagreed in May 1954, and the law took effect. That October, Keep America Beautiful was born, declaring its intention to “break Americans of the habit of tossing litter into streets and out of car windows.” The New York Times noted that the group’s leaders included “executives of concerns manufacturing beer, beer cans, bottles, soft drinks, chewing gum, candy, cigarettes and other products.” These disciples of disposability, led by William C. Stolk, president of the American Can Company, set about changing the terms in the conversation about litter.
The packaging industry justifies disposables as a response to consumer demand: buyers wanted convenience; packagers simply provided it. But that’s not exactly true. Consumers had to be trained to be wasteful. Part of this re-education involved forestalling any debate over the wisdom of creating disposables in the first place, replacing it with an emphasis on “proper” disposal. Keep America Beautiful led this refocusing on the symptoms rather than the system. The trouble was not their industry’s promulgation of throwaway stuff; the trouble was those oafs who threw it away.
I knew he was Italian. I didnt know about his wife and kids. And playing the part of being an Indian in real life. Kinda weird. But that's Hollywood for yeah.
Another childhood belief that turned out to be completely untrue.
Today's cancel culture klan would be riding the cultural appropriation train and have a field day with this guy.
Who knew? Interesting!
The Crying Dago.
you didn't mention the real reasons for the tears 😢
The actor is not native at all and has tears because his paycheck was no big enough. This was stage by plastics companies.
To be honest I’m not impressed with the “stolen honor” of claiming to be Native American or anything else you’re not. But his last statement kinda got me.