Kickapoo Chairman Presents Tribal Flag to Actor Wes Studi on Movie Location

Kickapoo Chairman Presents Tribal Flag to Actor Wes Studi on Movie Location

Kickapoo Language, Culture Featured in 'The Only Good Indian'

COTTONWOOD FALLS, Kan., Sept. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Kickapoo tribal language and culture play a key role in the production of "The Only Good Indian," a movie that is being shot here and in Topeka, Lawrence and other locations in Kansas.

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"The Only Good Indian," which stars popular Native American actor Wes Studi (Dances With Wolves, Geronimo, Heat), is a fictionalized account of the removal of Indian children from their homes and forced attendance at Indian boarding schools.

About 20 members of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas also are appearing in the film and the Kickapoo language is spoken throughout the movie.

"Currently, The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas is the only tribe in the United Sates whose language and culture is being represented by tribal members in a movie production," said Tribal Chairman Steve Cadue during a recent visit to the movie set.

During the visit, Cadue had the opportunity to meet Studi, a full-blood member of the Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma, and presented him an official Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas flag and a T-shirt that emphasizes the Kickapoo's Plum Creek water project and the need for a comprehensive water plan for the Kickapoo reservation near Horton, KS.

"Wes is a real gentleman and very sympathetic to our cause," Cadue said.

Tom Carmody, a Lawrence film producer and screenwriter is producing "The Only Good Indian." The director is Kevin Willmott, an assistant professor of film at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. The release of the film is scheduled for 2008.

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Source: Kickapoo Tribe

CONTACT: Verna Simon, +1-785-486-2131, ext. 227,
verna.simon@ktik-nsn.gov, for Kickapoo Tribe

Web site: http://www.lundandmanasse.com/

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