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Who knew? Crying Indian is not Native American

Create: Tue, 05/02/2017 - 18:30
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Who knew? The crying Indian in the early 1970s ant-littering PSA commercial on TV was not Native American after all. This, according to Today I Found Out, the informative YouTube channel. 

Simon Whistler, the narrator of the YouTube channel introduces the late Oscar “Iron Eyes” Cody as "The Crying Indian who wasn't."

Cody portrayed Native Americans in more than 200 films and countless television shows over his 64-year career. But his greatest role perhaps was that of the Native American Indian who sheds a ear when trash is thrown at his feet by those in a passing car near a riverbank after he's gotten out of a canoe.

Cody was actually the son of two Italian immigrants to the US.