Len Fairchuk
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Len Fairchuk (White Buffalo) was born in 1932 in St. Boniface, Manitoba, of Saulteaux and Ukrainian heritage, and raised in Horad, Manitoba and the Keeseekoowenin First Nation. He gained recognition in the late 1950s as a fiddler, winning talent contests and appearing in concerts, while running a commercial sign business. In 1964 he moved to Los Angeles and worked on film set construction. Around this time, in Los Angeles, we was given his Indigenous name White Buffalo by Chief George Pierre of the Acoma Nation. Later he recored several songs and albums, and partnered with Richard Falk in Winnipeg to create The Western Hour, a live radio show which later became a TV show. Throughout his life a played music, painted and carved. Len Fairchuk died in 2004, in Winnipeg.