A Navajo from Kayenta, he made his cinema début in 1925 in "The
Vanishing American", by George B. Seitz. Fluent in both Navajo and
English, he was hired by the film industry as an interpreter with
Navajo extras and got small bits in many westerns. He was, of course,
member of the "stock actors" working for director John Ford on the
movies he shot in Monument Valley and Moab area. Worked on over 50 to
60 movies, making most of his "movie career" without having to leave
the Navajo Reservation.
