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In an Indian version of black face minstrelsy, Mel Brooks plays Indian by putting on a headdress, painting his face and speaking Yiddish. The only English that he speaks is, "They darker than us! Woof!" after he allows the black family to continue on their route unscathed. This complicated scene turns the white-on-black oppression of

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Mel Brooks comes from the same place, but turns all that baggage on its head — and gives us Yiddish-speaking Indians. (No good version w/embed code, so click here.) 1) Every second of "The

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The Indian chief scene from Blazing Saddles. Further support for the argument that some American Indian tribes may have descended from the 10 lost tribes of

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I think pretty much everyone knew that Mel Brooks was speaking Yiddish, but few people noted the deeper historical significance behind the joke. At the time the scene was set (that would be pre-Civil War), there was a popular theory that American Indians were descended from the lost tribes of Israel.

https://www.myjewishlearning.com/2012/05/04/blazing-saddles-it-wasnt/
When a modern audience thinks of American Indians and American Jews, the image that comes to mind is likely to be that of Mel Brooks as an Indian chief in Blazing Saddles. Dressed in ornate plains schmattes (including war bonnet), and astride a paint pony, Brooks and his warriors come upon a prairie schooner carrying an African-American family. . "Chief" Brooks looks at the little group as

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Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical postmodernist Western black comedy film directed by Mel Brooks, who co-wrote the screenplay with Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg and Alan Uger, based on a story treatment by Bergman. The film stars Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder.Brooks appears in two supporting roles: Governor William J. Le Petomane, and a Yiddish-speaking Indian

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Mel Brooks never met a stereotype he couldn't upend. The classic Hollywood cowboy is always white. Mel Brooks's Hollywood cowboy is black. And his Indian chief speaks Yiddish.

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Director Mel Brooks makes three cameos in the film: as the sleazy governor, as a Yiddish-speaking, Jewish-Sioux Indian chief, and as a WWI aviator in the badman lineup. Brooks also wrote the songs and lyrics for three songs in the film: "I'm Tired," "The French Mistake," and "The Ballad of Rock Ridge."

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1974, dir. Mel Brooks. "Nein, nein. Zeist est meshuggah." Thus spoke the Indians in Mel Brooks' iconic western comedy. Naturally, the Indians speak in Yiddish.

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Firstly I want to also thank Cornexclamationpoint for their post covering most of the scene. However I wanted to know what he said to the warriors with him as well so I ended up finding the following. According to the article linked the following is a transcript of the Chief's lines. No, no, zayt nisht meshuge! Loz im geyn! Abi gezint! Take off!

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Speaking of members of the tribe, the first film clip in this series, which will run sporadically, is the classic Indian (they weren't know as native Americans then) scene that Mel Brooks directed and acted in when he played the Indian chief in Blazing Saddles. ... When Indian chief Mel Brooks gets a good look at the occupants of the wagon, he

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Later, Brooks shows up as a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief (a gag, writes Brooks biographer Jeremy Dauber, that suggests a "kind of racial solidarity"). And speaking of Yiddish, the lisping German seductress played by the Jewish actress and Brooks perennial Madeline Kahn was named "Lili Von Shtupp" — her last name Yiddish slang for her

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Mel Brooks' Yiddish-speaking Indian chief

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Here's a scene from "Blazing Saddles" featuring Mel Brooks that has been converted to Yiddish. Good stuff. Yiddish Glossary for Goyim · January 17, 2013 · Here's a scene from "Blazing Saddles" featuring Mel Brooks that has been converted to Yiddish. ... Yiddish speaking indians. From 'Blazing Saddles' All reactions: 3. 5 comments. 2 shares

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March 20, 2023. Mel Brooks had grown up in the golden age of the Western, watching those wide open landscapes and those tough-talking men stride their way across the screen. On Your Show of Shows, he and others had parodied the Westerns of the 1950s—most notably Shane, featuring the man who strides in, and out, of town, totally alone.

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Mel Brooks' most popular comedy, Blazing Saddles, ... Brooks appeared in two roles, one of them a Yiddish-speaking Indian chief. Warner Brothers objected to the movie's use of the word "nigger," as well as a farting scene, but Brooks had rights to the final cut and exercised his good taste by ignoring the studio's complaints.

https://www.jta.org/2013/03/11/culture/mel-brooks-is-making-a-broadway-adaption-of-blazing-saddles
Mel Brooks is en route to taking over Broadway. The Jewish funnyman revealed in an interview yesterday that a Broadway adaptation of his 1974 Western comedy, "Blazing Saddles," is in the works.

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Neil Simon, A Yiddish-Influenced Wisecracker. In his heyday, the playwright Neil Simon, who died on August 26 at age 91, produced a series of long-running plays, some of them winners of

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New and amended cultural resource laws are changing the academic and scientific landscape of North American bioarchaeology and archaeology. The passage of the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990 was an important watershed event in the history of the discipline of biological anthropology, and the increasingly successful utilization of Section 106 of the National

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Mel Brooks as the Indian Chief in Blazing Saddles

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This important book explores the truth behind the legends, offering new insights into the turbulent history of these Native Americans. The book's readable style will appeal to all those interested in American Indians. 1979; 256 pages.