Trivia

Was 90 years old at time of her death and is buried St. Augustine Cemetery in Nebraska.

Is a relative of actor Vincent or Vincent St. Cyr.

Her older sister, Julia St. Cyr (Travis) (1857-1947), was a graduate of and one of the first American Indians to attend Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, which is now Hampton University.

Her rival, actress Mona Darkfeather, was also a lead at Bison and identified as a prominent Indian player at Kalem and Universal Studios.

Although she is credited as the first Native American actress with her first known film The White Squaw (1908), Inuit actress Esther Eneutseak made an uncredited appearance in Edison's Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip (1901).

Cecil B. DeMille's first choice to play the Indian girl in The Squaw Man (1914) was Mona Darkfeather, but Darkfeather's contract with Kalem did not allow her to accept the offer.

Moving Picture World, February 1914: Princess Red Wing Injured. The accompanying photograph from the Lasky headquarters at Lasar, Utah, showing the death of Nat-U-Rich, wife of the "Squaw Man" in Edwin Milton Royle's play of that name, was made more realistic by the accidental shooting in the arm of Princess Red Wing, the prominent photoplay actress, who is appearing in the part of Nat-U-Rich for the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company. No explanation is made as to how the revolver happened to be loaded. The bullet inflicted a slight flesh wound in the Indian girl's left arm, but she went through the scene without any demonstration of pain or injury. When the scene was completed, however. Red Wing showed a badly swollen and bloody arm. It was the first serious accident during the nine weeks Lasky's company has been working before the camera.

The article in Moving Picture World February 1914 claiming that Red Wing was actually shot during the making of The Squaw Man (1914) was largely apocryphal. Film historians have found no safety or medical records supporting this, classifying it as early Hollywood ballyhoo.