Career
Upon graduating from school, he entered medical school in California and supported himself as a television commercial actor. Drum played Richard Yellow Hawk in the 1992 movie, Thunderheart. He also acted in the 2012 movie, Dark Blood, although the movie was not released during Drum"s lifetime.
He had been involved with the Lincoln Indian Center and was active in the American Indian Movement.
Complications from diabetes forced Drum to seek help at the Carl T. Curtis Health Center in Macy, Nebraska. He died at the center on September 17, 2007.
