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Category: 25. Community service; sports and athletics

    LENT001.  “Tatanka.”   In: Biographical dictionary of professional wrestling.  By Harris M. Lentz, III.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1997.  P. 324.

Publication type: Encyclopedia article

Brief sketch of Tatanka, whose real name is Chris Chavis.  Born in Pembroke, North Carolina in 1965, Tatanka (who has also used the name War Eagle) began wrestling in 1989.  He joined the WWF in the early 1990s, held the NAWA/SAPW title in 1991, and left the WWF in 1995.
Additional subjects:  Tatanka | Chris Chavis | Lumbee wrestlers

This annotation was edited on: July 8, 2002

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