Iron Eeyes Cody Environmental Statue |
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This webpage will have all the information on the Iron Eyes Cody Statue in the very near future. This statue will be the biggest project ever attempted with the symbol of a Native American Indian. The theme will be about the environment of the world. The television commercial (Keep America Beautiful) with Iron Eyes Cody was the most successful of it's kind. The large dimensions of this statue will be outstandingly worthy of the theme, and truly of great importance. The big moment is about to happen. "Iron Eyes Cody: Actor Known for Antilittering Ad." No one could say exactly when we humans first began to have concerns about the effects our activities have on our environment, most of us baby boomers could pinpoint 1970-71 as the timespan during which we first became aware of the "ecology movement," as the era when concern for what humans were doing to the world they lived in ran at a fever pitch. Protecting the planet's resources by calling upon each person to pitch in and do whatever he or she could do to limit the abuse was seen as the right and proper focus of the times. High schools offered classes in ecology. Public school students painted posters decrying pollution. And television ads worked to remind everyone that the problem was real, here, and now. Three events which occurred during the year between March 1970 and March 1971 helped bring the concept of "ecology" into millions of homes and made it a catchword of the era. One was the first annual, observed on 21 March 1970. The second was Look magazine's promotion of April 1970, a symbol that was soon to become as prominent a part of American culture as the ubiquitous peace sign. Perhaps the most effective and unforgettable was the television debut of Keep America Beautiful's landmark "People Start Pollution, People Can Stop It" public service ad on the second Earth Day in March 1971. In that enduring minute-long TV spot, viewers watched an Indian paddle his canoe up a polluted and flotsam-filled river, stream past belching smokestacks, come ashore at a litter-strewn river bank, and walk to the edge of a highway, where the occupant of a passing automobile thoughtlessly tossed a bag of trash out the car window to burst open at the astonished visitor's feet. When the camera moved upwards for a close-up, a single tear was seen rolling down the Indian's face as the narrator dramatically intoned: "People start pollution; people can stop it." That "crying Indian," as he would later sometimes be referred to, was Iron Eyes Cody the crying Indian, an actor, Cherokee/Cree Native American. In 1995, Hollywood's Native American community honored Iron Eyes for his long-standing contribution to Native American causes. |