He lived an interesting life.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_BarkerEarly life
Recorded as Robert Barker in the Indian Census Roll, 1930
Barker spent most of his youth on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Mission, South Dakota. The U.S. Indian Census Rolls, 1885–1940, list Barker as an enrolled member of the Sioux tribe.[2] His mother, Matilda ("Tillie") Valandra (née Matilda Kent Tarleton), was a school teacher; his father, Byron John Barker, was the foreman on the electrical high line through the state of Washington. As Barker's father was one-quarter Sioux,[3] and his mother non-Native, Barker was one-eighth Sioux.[4] Barker attended the grade school on the Rosebud Reservation where his mother was a teacher.[3] He once said, "I've always bragged about being part Indian, because they are a people to be proud of. And the Sioux were the greatest warriors of them all."[3]
