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Native Americans on The Screen

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1855-0920 Dark Cloud* (b Elijah Tahamont) silent film actor/a chief of the Abenaki, a First Nations band government - Odanak, QC Canada (1918/62)

1883-0305 Edwin Carewe* (b Jay John Fox) Chickasaw actor/screenwriter/director – Gainesville, TX USA (1940/56)

1891-0815 Chief Yowlachie* Native American actor - Yakima, WA USA (1966/74)

1933-0927 Will Sampson* Muscogee painter/rodeo performer/actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) – Okmulgee, OK USA (1987/53)
1936-0817 Floyd “Red Crow” Westerman* Dakota Sioux country music singer/ actor/political activist - Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, SD USA (2007/71)
1939-1110 Russell “Wanbli Ohitika " Means* Oglala Lakota activist/actor/ writer - Porcupine, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, SD USA (2012/72)

1941-1025 Gordon Tootoosis* actor of Cree and Stoney descent/Cree activist/band chief – Poundmaker Reserve, SK Canada (2011/69)

1947-1217 Wes Studi* Cherokee American actor/producer - Nofire Hollow, Cherokee County, OK USA

1962-0814 Steve Reevis* Blackfoot American actor - Browning, MT USA (2017/55)
1966-1024 Zahn McClarnon* Lakota American actor, with a Lakota mother and father of Irish ancestry - Denver, CO USA
1967-0604 Michael Greyeyes* Plains Cree actor/choreographer/ director – The Qu’Appelle Valley, SK Canada
1967-0722 Irene Bedard* Native American actress of Inuit and Cree ancestry – Anchorage, AK USA

1985-0219 Tatanka Means* Native American actor/entrepreneur/activist – Chinle, AZ USA

1993-0808 Devery Jacobs* Mohawk actress/filmmaker – Kahnawa:ke Mohawk Territory, QC Canada

Updated 22.3.2022

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Americans_in_film