Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance was the name Sylvester C. Long (1890-1932) used after he had taken a mantle of an American Indian.

Sylvester Clark Long was born in December 1, 1890 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His parents were ex-slaves who regarded themselves as half-white, half-Indian, though their neighbors considered them black. Jump to: navigation, search December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1890 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search County Forsyth County, NC Mayor Allen Joines Website Official Website Population 185,776 (2000) Winston-Salem is a city located in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. ...

In the racially segregated environment, Sylvester Long apparently decided to escape and joined a circus. He worked and lived with Cherokees working in a Wild West show and noticed that whites treated them at least marginally better than they treated blacks. So he decided to become an Indian. Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation). ... Great Basin region, typical American West The Western United States has played a significant role in history and fiction. ...

In 1909, Long applied as a half-Cherokee into Carlisle Indian Residential School, and was accepted. He graduated in 1912 at the top of his class. He joined the St. John's and Manlius Military Academies and graduated in 1915. At that stage, he had begun to call himself Long Lance, and had earned a nickname "chief" as the only Indian in the class. He decided to try for the West Point, and appealed to Woodrow Wilson, who endorsed his application. However, he failed the entry exam. Jump to: navigation, search A military academy is a military educational institution. ... Alternate meanings: West Point (disambiguation). ... Jump to: navigation, search Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). ...

In 1916, Long Lance enlisted to Canadian Expeditionary Force in Montreal, and was shipped to France to fight in the Great War. He was wounded twice and was eventually transferred to a desk job. He returned to Canada as an acting sergeant in 1919, and moved to Calgary, Alberta where he took a job as a journalist for the Calgary Herald. He presented himself as a Cherokee and a West Point graduate with Croix de Guerre. The Canadian Corps was a World War I Canadas soldiers in September of 1915 after the arrival of the 2nd Canadian Division in France. ... Jump to: navigation, search City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area  - % water 500. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas. ... Jump to: navigation, search {{Hide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Motto: {{Unhide = {{{Disable Motto Link}}}}} Heart of the new west City of Calgary, Alberta, Canada location. ... The Calgary Herald is a daily Calgary, Alberta newspaper. ... The Croix de guerre is a military decoration of both Belgium and France which was first created in 1915. ...

For the next three years as a reporter, he visited Blackfoot, Blood and Sarcee (Tsuu T’ina) reservations, and wrote articles about them - and at the same time listened eagerly their tribal legends and traditions. He also began to criticize government treatment of Indians, especially re-education and attempts to stamp out tribal rituals. Jump to: navigation, search The Blackfoot Confederacy is the collective name of three First Nations in Alberta and one Native American tribe in Montana. ... The Tsuu T’ina (also Sarsi or Sarcee) are a nation of the First Nations of Canada. ...

In 1922, he threw a fake bomb into a city council meeting and was fired, but he continued as a freelance writer. At the same year Blood tribe adopted him as an honorary member and gave him a Blackfoot name Buffalo Child. He adopted the name and the identity as real. His fame as an Indian who had made it in the white world increased when his stories begun to appear in national newspapers in Canada and USA. In 1924, he became a press representative for the Canadian Pacific Railway. A city council is the most common style of legislative government in a city or town. ... A freelancer or (freelance worker) is a self-employed person working in a profession or trade in which full-time employment by a single employer is also common. ... The Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR; AAR reporting marks CP, CPAA, CPI), known as CP Rail between 1968 and 1996, is a Canadian Class I railway operated by Canadian Pacific Railway Limited. ...

In 1927, Long Lance had moved to New York. He began to write his autobiography, Long Lance, that Cosmopolitan Book Corporation published in 1928. In it, he claimed that he had been born Blackfoot in Montana's Sweetgrass Hills, that he had been wounded eight times in the Great War and had been promoted to captain. Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th)  - Land... Autobiography (from the Greek auton, self, bios, life and graphein, write) is biography, the writing of a life story, from the viewpoint of the subject. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: Treasure State Other U.S. States Capital Helena Largest city Billings Governor Brian Schweitzer (D) Senators Max Baucus (D) Conrad Burns (R) Official languages English Area 381,156 km² (4th)  - Land 377,295 km²  - Water 3,862 km² (1%) Population (2000)  - Population 902,195...

He became a celebrity, part of a New York party life, and received an average prize of $100 for his speeches. He also endorsed a running shoe for the B.F.Goodrich Company.

In 1929, Long Lance starred in the silent film The Silent Enemy. The movie attempted to depict Indian tribal life more realistically, and was released in 1930. On his return to New York, he became, for a short time, regular party guest.

However, an Indian advisor to the film crew, Chauncey Yellow Robe, became suspicious and alerted the studio legal advisor. Long Lance could not explain his heritage, and rumors begun to leak. The fact that he was technically black was enough that many of his socialite acquaintances left. However, studio decided not to publicize that fact.

Long Lance begun to drink. When California socialite Anita Baldwin took him as a bodyguard in her trip in Europe, he misbehaved in such an extent that Baldwin abandoned him in New York. For a time, he fell in love with dancer Elisabeth Clapp, but refused to marry her. In 1931, he returned to Baldwin, but his drinking increased. A bodyguard is a person who protects someone (known as their principal) from personal assault, kidnapping, assassination, loss of confidential information, or other threats. ...

In 1932, Long Lance was found dead in Baldwin's home in Los Angeles, California with a bullet in his head. His death was ruled a suicide. Jump to: navigation, search The City of Los Angeles (from Spanish; Los Ángeles, ) also known simply as L.A., is the second-largest city in the United States in terms of population, as well as one of the worlds most important economic, cultural, and entertainment centers. ... Jump to: navigation, search Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life; it is sometimes a noun for one who has committed or attempted the act. ...

Books:

• Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance: The Glorious Impersonator, Donald P. Smith