Chief Dan George
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Sep 23, 2026
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We have to return to our matriarchal ways of being, our ways of thinking of the earth, our ways of being with the earth, our ways of sitting with ourselves in that important way.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
For 84-year-old Ta'a George, the daughter of Chief Dan George from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, she has been fighting to save the environment for years.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
But now she faces another battle to save the water in the Burrard Inlet, where her community is located.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
For all living things
Blaine CapatchPANELIST
Oh, yeah.
Blaine CapatchPANELIST
Dustin Hoffman and Chief Dan George.
Ken DalyPANELIST
I love that movie.
Blaine CapatchPANELIST
Uh, please also give me those when you-
Gordon McNultyHOST
Okay.
Gordon McNultyHOST
Um, so you get chief Dan George, you get, uh, oh, I, okay.
Gordon McNultyHOST
Yes.
Gordon McNultyHOST
Bridges and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.
11 MINS LATER
Van HeflinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
already did the three.
Van HeflinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We already did.
Gordon McNultyHOST
It's not Chief Dan George in Little Big Man, is it? It
ElizaGUEST
is Chief Dan George in Little Big Man.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Eastwood also helped bring the Western into the modern era with his unconventional depiction of Native Americans.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He picks up a Native American chief, Lone Watie, a Comanche chief, played wonderfully by Chief Dan George.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I think the first Native American with a credible sense of humor in any American Western.
speaker_6SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's a really funny guy for all the right reasons.
Clint EastwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I might have killed her.
speaker_10SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Oh, I noticed that.
speaker_14SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The character of Chief Dan George, that dry delivery, there are things that he's saying in there that are very pithy and, and deep.
Clint EastwoodSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Here in the nation they call us the civilized tribe.
Richard SchickelHOST
[somber music] [footsteps] There's a lot of this in this movie, a lot of just trekking, moving slowly through the territory, uh, and through the, uh, uh, wilderness that he must embrace.
Richard SchickelHOST
One of the things he [laughs] embraces so beautifully in this film is this character, uh, played by Chief Dan George, who'd played, uh, a slightly similar character in, uh, Arthur Penn's Little Big Man, uh, a few years before.
Richard SchickelHOST
He was an elderly man, I think he was about 77 when he undertook this role with, uh, Clint, and, uh, he became for Clint, a- as he made the movie, uh, an almost talismanic figure.
Richard SchickelHOST
[footsteps]
Richard SchickelHOST
What Clint did with him was, um, get him to just sort of generally, um, make the point that the script wanted to be made in language of his own choosing.
Richard SchickelHOST
Um, he'd just say, "Yeah, Chief, just tell me the story of whatever," uh, and the chief would do it in his own way, uh, often much to Clint's amusement.
Richard SchickelHOST
What happened was he, uh, he became, um, really enamored of, of Chief Dan George, kept expanding his part, kept giving him [laughs] more lines to do.
Richard SchickelHOST
And, um, Clint would often say about, uh, working with, uh, Chief Dan George that, uh, he just had to, um, give him his head, let him do what he needed to do and what he could do with his character.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
She was born on June the 12th, 1952, and from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation in North Vancouver, BC.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
Today, some of her Tsleil-Waututh family traveled here to sing the honor song by her late grandfather, Chief Dan George.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
[Native American drum music]In 2023, Joan was elected in a by-election for the Vancouver-Strathcona riding after Melanie Mark stepped down, and in October of 2024, she ran again for that seat.
Tina HouseCORRESPONDENT
She won once again and served as the member of the Legislative Assembly until her death on August the 28th, 2026.
Ezra LevantHOST
That was him standing beside a war canoe.
Ezra LevantHOST
The canoe is named Chief Dan George.
Ezra LevantHOST
The website painted on the trailer is Takaya Tours.
Ezra LevantHOST
That's the tourism company that sail with Tooth Nation in North Vancouver.
Ezra LevantHOST
Chief Dan George was their chief.
Ezra LevantHOST
You may remember him from the movies, Little Big Man, The Outlaw, Josie Wales.
Ezra LevantHOST
Now look at the shirt.
Ezra LevantHOST
Ta'a said, warrior up.
Ana KasparianHOST
Carol Anderson is the designer.
Cenk UygurHOST
All right, great sort of word says, as Chief Dan George once said, my heart soars like a hawk every time I see you two.
Cenk UygurHOST
Thank you, that's incredibly kind of you.
Cenk UygurHOST
I love that.
Geoff MeggsHOST
She was Slaywithooth.
Geoff MeggsHOST
Her grandfather was Chief Dan George.
Geoff MeggsHOST
One of her siblings is Lee Maracle, a famous author and Indigenous writer.
Geoff MeggsHOST
And it was her picture in a book written by her, by Lee Maracle, that Stuart Phillips saw and read.
John NorthcottHOST
BC NDP MLA and Indigenous activist Joan Philip has died.
John NorthcottHOST
Born in North Vancouver, Philip was the granddaughter of actor and Tsleil-Waututh First Nation chief Dan George, and later married Stewart Philip, Grand Chief of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs.
John NorthcottHOST
Politically active throughout her life, Joan Philip won a seat in the BC legislature in 2023, where she continued to champion Indigenous causes.
John NorthcottHOST
Federal NDP leader Avi Lewis says she spent a lifetime fighting for justice.
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