Dawn Little Sky, 1930 – 2025

Sioux actress and animator Dawn Little Sky, 95, died on Oct. 24. She worked as a colorist at Disney Studios (women were rarely promoted to animator at Disney), but was mostly known as an actress. She appeared in both movies (Gypsy, Ten Who Dared, Cimarron, Duel at Diablo, Billy Two Hats, The Apple Dumpling Gang) and TV (The Texan, Gunsmoke, Have Gun – Will Travel, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, Lakota Woman – Siege at Wounded Knee). In later years, Little Sky was director of a cultural center in Eagle Butte, and taught traditional art and culture at the Little Wound School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Little Sky was married to Lakota actor (and her frequent costar) Eddie Little Sky; he died in 1997.