The Crying Indian - full commercial - Keep America Beautiful

Earth Day, the annual day of environmental action and awareness, was first held on April 22, 1970. This past April 22nd, we finally ventured into the woods behind our house and pulled 4 putrid truck tires/mosquito farms out of the mud, along with about 200 pounds of scrap metal, engine parts, and farm equipment. The place used to be a dairy farm, and I guess "out of sight" was "out of mind". If it were still the 70's, cleaning up the woods would have been "outta sight" in a whole different way.

Here's a clip of The Crying Indian from the early 70's. OK, so Chief Iron Eyes Cody wasn't a real Native American after all. That didn't stop the ad campaign from having a tremendous effect back then. And it's no less relevant today.

Here are some links to check out:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day
http://www.kab.org/

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[Sk8inLegend]

this actually made me sad. what have we become?

[INEEDZALL]

For fucks sake,

NATIVE

FUCKING

AMERICANS!

Not Indians, not N***ers, Native Americans!

[10TimesTheValue]

iNeedzAll, You'd be amazed how many Indians actually resent the term Native American. Most of the Natives were here loooooong before Amerigo Vespucci charted some of the coastlines to the South & North of the "discoveries" of Columbus.

[Fallout394]

Does no one care that #1. That "Indian" is Italian, and In fact an actor that portrayed Indians in western movies. Or 2, that Keep America Beautiful is owned by an aluminum can manufacturer. This whole add is basically an attempt to guilt trip people into picking up this companies trash for them.

[vandent]

@iedawahato My grandparents and parents referred to themselves as American Indians and so do I, they always put the accent on the American part.

[66Childintime]

This made me cry when I was 4 years old, it stays within my spirit today.

[dtothelu]

Funny that they used a white guy to play the Native American in this one.

[XxBlessMeNotYouxX]

Damn thats really sad :'( i feel real bad for him n i aint even in america :( aw native americans r amazing, i didnt get wat was happening till i saw the factories xO

[outlaw2747]

@Sk8inLegend Wasteful, mindless, inconsiderate destroyers. I almost go into a rage when I see someone dump trash NEXT to the trash can as opposed to IN it.

[Testsubject909]

@cockshooter123 We always were animals. But you know what animals don't typically have? A self-destructive habit.

[bout2freek]

@MsPandaRosa I remember that commercial also. I was a kid when it was aired in the 80's. I actually remember that as the crying indian commercial not this one. I have never seen this version untill now.

[iedawahato]

@kdbacho Some of us don't mind being called Indians and refer to ourselves as such.