Nipo T. Strongheart Net Worth

Nipo T. Strongheart Net Worth is
$13 Million

Nipo T. Strongheart Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Nipo T. Strongheart (born May 15, 1891, in White Swan, Washington; died December 31, 1966, in Hollywood, California) was a Yakama Nation Native American lecturer-performer and technical advisor to Hollywood films. After some childhood experiences as a performer and some time in military service, he began a life-long action across several careers advocating for Native American concerns and sharing Native American culture. While he had spoken several times about issues of religions early in his life, he made a decision to join the Bahá'í Faith late in his life.While born of a Yakama Nation mother, Chi-Nach-Lut Schu-Wah-Elks, his estrangement from reservation life began by her leaving it and marrying a white man, though she soon died. His exposure to native culture was from infancy in the hands of a relative of his mother, at two Indian schools, and with his father while performing for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and its successors. But almost all his life was led "off-reservation". Speaking at once to his distance and closeness to his Indian heritage is that later in life his membership in the nation was not accepted and he pursued the matter until he was officially adopted as a Yakama Nation member. He served in the US military and he was wounded. After his careers and death, his will included donating materials and money for the Yakama Nation to build a facility. This was the seed of the Yakama Cultural Center which included his wishes for a library and museum with materials and artifacts he had gathered in his travels. They established a permanent exhibit on Strongheart in 2014. Scholars began to mention him in reviews of military service of Native Americans in 1997 and the problems of Native Americans in the Hollywood film industry in 2006.His public career started with a job with the YMCA "War Work Council" to tour military camps across New England, at which he presented on Native American culture and spoke earnestly about military service. His talks encouraged hundreds to volunteer for service. After a brief move to the Yakama Indian Reservation, he left and made a prominent reputation in the Lyceum and Chautauqua circuits of fairs where he was known for presentations on Native American culture and often spoke against the reservation lifestyle enforced by government policy. He was important in the development of the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 signed by President Calvin Coolidge, which he thought would help end reservations and empower Indian culture.He had already had occasional contact with the new phenomenon of the film industry in his childhood when he began to focus his career on that field as the audiences of Lyceum and Chautauqua events dwindled. He was involved in a number of projects in silent film (most especially Braveheart) and the developing talkies (several examples but most especially Pony Soldier) but also helped develop or found various organizations centering on Native Americans including the Los Angeles Indian Ce 

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