Red Wing

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Red Wing was an American actress of the silent era. She and her husband James Young Deer have been dubbed by some as the first Native American Hollywood "power couple." She was born into the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska on the Winnebago Reservation.

Lillian attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania and later moved to Washington, D.C. where she met and married J. Younger Johnson on April 9, 1906. Young Deer was originally James Young Johnson of the Nanticoke people born in Washington, D.C. He had been a Navy veteran in the Spanish-American War, and after his marriage to Lillian the couple performed in various social clubs in New York City. In the summer of 1909, they worked as technical advisers for D.W. Griffith, followed by appearances in Bison films. They moved to Hollywood around 1909.

St. Cyr appeared in the screen's first feature Western to be filmed in what people now refer to as Hollywood, The Squaw Man by producer/director Cecil B. DeMille. This was followed by a role with cowboy star Tom Mix in In the Days of the Thundering Herd and another in Fighting Bob. The 1916 version of Ramona featured St. Cyr as Ramona's mother.