Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Chauncey Yellow Robe ("Kills in the Woods") (Canowicakte) (1867-1930) was an educator, lecturer and Native American activist. Yellow Robe was a widely known intellectual and one of the best educated American Indians in the United States. Yellow Robe was raised in the Sicangu Lakota tradition, an honors graduate of the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a founding member of the Society of American Indians. Yellow Robe crossed cultural bridges to improve the status of American Indians, believed that the majority of Anglos were ignorant of what Indians were capable of achieving and urged Indians to fully participate in all aspects of American life. Yellow Robe was at the forefront in the fight for American Indian citizenship during the Progressive Era, and collaborated with American Museum of Natural History to produce "The Silent Enemy," the first movie and documentary with an all-Indian cast.. }
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- Chauncey_Yellow_Robe abstract "Chauncey Yellow Robe ("Kills in the Woods") (Canowicakte) (1867-1930) was an educator, lecturer and Native American activist. Yellow Robe was a widely known intellectual and one of the best educated American Indians in the United States. Yellow Robe was raised in the Sicangu Lakota tradition, an honors graduate of the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and a founding member of the Society of American Indians. Yellow Robe crossed cultural bridges to improve the status of American Indians, believed that the majority of Anglos were ignorant of what Indians were capable of achieving and urged Indians to fully participate in all aspects of American life. Yellow Robe was at the forefront in the fight for American Indian citizenship during the Progressive Era, and collaborated with American Museum of Natural History to produce "The Silent Enemy," the first movie and documentary with an all-Indian cast.".