RIP Dawn Little Sky

 

Native American actress died in Rapid City, South Dakota on October 24^th. She was 95. Born on April 17, 1930, in Fort Yates, North Dakota, Dawn lived on the Standing Rock Reservation as a youngster, then attended Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas. While in college she met rodeo performer and future stuntman and actor Eddie Little Sky (Eddie Little) [1926-1997], while on the rodeo trail. They ended up in California, where she worked as an actress at Frontierland in Disneyland and as an artist for Walt Disney Studios, where she colored cels for animation projects. She appeared, along with Eddie on several TV westerns including ‘Gunsmoke’,‘Rawhide’, Have Gun-Will Travel’ and ‘Daniel Boone’. Film appearances included “Duel at Daiblo” “Cimarron” and “The Appel Dumpling Gang”. Dawn appeared in two Eueo-westerns: “Billy Two Hats” (1973) as Copeland’s squaw and as Annie in 2016’s “Neither Wolf Nor Dog”. She is survived by three children and many grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.