caption death_date death_place birth_name birth_place imagesize birth_date spouse yearsactive image article_title name occupation
who 's who in the film world , 1914 13 march 1974 new york city , new york , united states lillian st. cyr winnebago reservation , nebraska , united states 200px 13 february 1884 james young deer -lrb- 1906 - ? -rrb- 1908 - 1921 red wing 1914.jpg red wing -lrb- actress -rrb-
 red wing -lrb- lillian st. cyr -rrb- actress
red wing -lrb- actress -rrb-

red wing -lrb- born lillian st. cyr , february 13 , 1884march 13 , 1974 -rrb- 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 -lrb- james young deer -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- 1914 -rrb- 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 '' -lrb- 1914 -rrb- and another in `` fighting bob '' -lrb- 1915 -rrb- .
the 1916 version of `` ramona '' featured st. cyr as ramona 's mother .
from 1908-1921 , st. cyr performed in more than 35 short western films .
she retired from acting in the 1920s and settled in new york city .
she was buried in st. augustine cemetery in nebraska .
the red wing -lrb- song -rrb- was supposedly connected with and often performed by her , although film historians question this .
