Margaret "Maggie Soaring Dove, Dark Eyes" Tahamont

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Margaret "Maggie Soaring Dove, Dark Eyes" Tahamont (Camp)

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Birthplace: Warren County, New York, United States
Death: April 07, 1935 (80)
Humboldt County, California, United States
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Wife of Elijah "Chief Dark Cloud" Tahamont
Mother of Bessie "Bright Eyes" Tahamont and Beulah Parker Filson

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About Margaret "Maggie Soaring Dove, Dark Eyes" Tahamont

"Tahamont married Margaret Camp, who became an actress billed as Dove Eye of the silent film era. The Tahamonts' children, Beulah and Bessie, reportedly were "the first Indian children to attend a New York public school".[8] Beulah appeared in early films and on stage. Their granddaughter, Bertha Parker, was an archaeologist and ethnologist. As an ethnologist, she wrote about the lore, mythology, and early history of Native Americans in California and Nevada.[9] Her third marriage was to the actor "Iron Eyes" Cody, who played the Indian who sheds a single tear for a blighted American environment in "Keep America Beautiful" ads that ran from 1971 into the 1980s." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Cloud_(actor)

"At the turn of the nineteenth century into the twentieth, a young Abanaki Native American woman named Margaret “Soaring Dove” “Dark Eyes” Tahamont moved from her home in the Adirondacks across the country to Los Angeles to play in the moving pictures. She was born in Indian Lake, New York, where her extended family—a mixed group of Abanaki, Oneida, and Anglo ancestry—had been well established since the town’s founding, owning substantial land, running an inn for visitors to the region from New York City, and employing many town residents as laborers. Margaret, born Camp... Margaret moved to Los Angeles to perform as an Indian in plays, Indian hobby societies, and early silent films. She now wore long braids, leather, beaded headbands, moccasins, and performed under the name Dove Eye. Her husband Elijah Tahamont, or Dark Cloud (also Abanaki, from Quebec), had been acting in silent films made in the Adirondack region—what would later be known as the “eastern Westerns”—including at least a few with soon-to-be famed director D. W. Griffith, and when eastern production companies began to move west to join nascent Hollywood corporations, the Tahamonts went along. Elijah, as Dark Cloud, played in over thirty titles; Margaret in at least five silent shorts, and likely more—the idea of preserving film and film records still lying a bit ahead on the horizon.
What seems to have been Margaret’s first movie was called An Indian Love Story."
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/08/01/hollywood-indian/

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Margaret "Maggie Soaring Dove, Dark Eyes" Tahamont's Timeline

1854
May 22, 1854
Warren County, New York, United States
1887
March 28, 1887
Lake George, Warren County, New York, United States
1894
1894
Lake George, Warren County, New York, United States
1935
April 7, 1935
Age 80
Humboldt County, California, United States