- Is a Sioux Indian.
- She was married to Seattle pharmaceutical salesman Harvey Buck about the time she was filming "Brave Eagle". She had two daughters from subsequent marriages, one named Migan, nicknamed "Mimi" (now Mimi Richman) in 1962 and Michelle in 1973.
- Had a starring role in Brave Eagle (1955) and was the first Native American woman in a TV leading role.
- Her death by gunshot at age 47 on June 23, 1978 occurred only six days before another violent celebrity passing, that being the still unsolved murder of Bob Crane, the star of Hogan's Heroes (1965), in Scottsdale, Arizona, on June 29 of that year at age 49. Ms. Winona's last acting role had been in 1961, which was the same year of Crane's first acting part, in an episode of The Twilight Zone (1959).
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