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Good day, my name is Mary Alice Nelson Archambaud. I also have two
other names. One is Molly Dellis and my movie name is Molly Spotted
Elk. I was born on November 17, 1903. I was born on Indian Island near Old Town, Penobscot, Maine. When I was a child, my mother was a great basket maker. When I was a little girl, my mother died. My father was the first Penobscot Indian to study at Dartmouth College. I had to take care of my 7 younger siblings. When I was 13, I took lessons and later on performed Native American traditional dance. When I was ready to dance in front of a crowd, I earned money to support my family. I went to public schools and when I graduated from Old Town High School, I went to University of Pennsylvania for two years. I studied anthropology, geology, ethnology, and everything to do with Aztec, Mayan, and American Indian. I am a famous Mainer because I am an amazing actor, a great dancer, an awesome author and poet, a great student, and the first Maine Indian to act in a silent movie. I also acted in front of kings. When I was alive, Mainer Margaret Chase Smith became the first woman to become a Senator in 1948. In 1929-1945, after the U.S entered World War II, 95,000 Mainers served. 2,000 gave their lives. Some things that I did were pretty cool. I danced at Schubert Theater with the Provincetown Players. I had to write my own music and make my own costumes. I performed in a movie called “Silent Enemy” in 1928-1929. I also performed in “The Last of the Mohicans” in 1936, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” in 1936, “The Good Earth” in 1937, and I played in “Lost Horizon” in 1936. I made traditional Native American dolls and traditional Native American doll dresses. I had a fancy to writing children’s books. I died February 21,1977 on Indian Island, Penobscot, Maine. By
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