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4. He also played Chingachgook in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans

Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:27 PM

Jun 2014

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http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/10/22/last-of-the-mohicans-director-michael-mann-remembers-russell-means/

He was not a trained actor but I think he did really well, in both acting and choreography.

Chingachgook: The frontier moves with the sun and pushes the red man of these wilderness forth, in front of it. Until one day, there will be nowhere left. Then our race will be no more, or be not us.

Hawkeye: That is my father's sadness talking

Chingachgook: No, it is true. The frontier place is for people like my white son, and his woman and their children. And one day there will no more frontier. And men like you will go too, like the Mohicans. And new people will come. Work. Struggle. Some will make their light, but once, we were here.

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He also played Chingachgook in Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans Ash_F Jun 2014 #4

Thank you for your post. n/t Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #6

You might get a kick out of this, but those last lines were cut from state-side release. Ash_F Jun 2014 #7

So sadly, that's not so hard to believe. We must never doubt the goodness of early US govt behavior Judi Lynn Jun 2014 #8

On the bright side, it would not be controversial at all with today's movie goers. Ash_F Jun 2014 #9

Yes, it sounds like the docs missed it completely Warpy Jun 2014 #5