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List Of Indigenous Canadian Actors
This is a list of Canadian actors/actresses who are First Nations in Canada, First Nations, Métis people, Métis or Inuit. A * Evan Adams, Coast Salish * Paulina Alexis (Alexis Nakota) * Allakariallak, Inuit * Nathaniel Arcand, Plains Cree people, Plains Cree * Gerald Auger, Woodland Cree * Lise-Yolande Awashish, Atikamekw B * Adam Beach, Saulteaux * Tara Beagan, Nlakaʼpamux * Tanaya Beatty, Daʼnaxdaʼxw Nation, Awaetlatla * Rykko Bellemare, Atikamekw * Kwena Bellemare-Boivin * Morris Birdyellowhead, Paul Band, Paul First Nation * Ryan Rajendra Black * Julian Black Antelope, Cree/Métis/Blackfoot * Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Tla'amin Nation * Cherish Violet Blood, Kainai * Columpa Bobb, Tsleil-Waututh First Nation, Tsleil-Waututh * Sonia Boileau, Mohawk * Tina Louise Bomberry, Mohawk people, Mohawk * Eugene Brave Rock, Kainai Nation, Kainai * Joe Buffalo, Cree C * Ashley Callingbull-Burnham, Ashley Callingbull, Cree * Cliff Cardinal, Cree/Lakota people, Lakota * Imajyn Cardinal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Native American Actors
This is a list of Native American actors in the United States, including Alaskan Natives. While Native American identity can be complex, it is rooted in political sovereignty that predates the creation of colonial nation states like the United States, Canada, and Mexico and persists into the 21st century recognized under international law by treaty. The Bureau of Indian Affairs defines ''Native American'' as having American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry. Legally, being Native American is defined as being enrolled in a federally recognized tribe, including Alaskan villages. Ethnologically, factors such as culture, history, language, religion, and familial kinships can influence Native American identity. All individuals on this list should have confirmed Native American ancestry. Historical figures might predate tribal enrollment practices and would be included based on ethnological tribal membership, while any contemporary individuals should either be enrolled members of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nlakaʼpamux
The Nlakaʼpamux or Nlakapamuk ( ; ), also previously known as the ''Thompson'', ''Thompson River Salish'', ''Thompson Salish'', ''Thompson River Indians'' or ''Thompson River people'', and historically as the ''Klackarpun'', ''Haukamaugh'', ''Knife Indians'', and ''Couteau Indians'', are an Indigenous First Nations people of the Interior Salish language group in southern British Columbia. Their traditional territory includes parts of the North Cascades region of Washington. Other names Frontier-era histories and maps transliterate the name Nlakaʼpamux as ''Hakamaugh'' or ''Klackarpun''; they were also known as the ''Kootomin'', or ''Couteau'' (Knife). or ''Knife Indians''. In the dialect of the Thompson language used by the Ashcroft Indian Band, the variant ''Nlʼakapxm'' is used. The Nlakaʼpamux of the Nicola Valley, who are all in the Nicola Tribal Association reserves refer to themselves as Scwʼexmx and speak a different dialect of the Thompson language. Togethe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columpa Bobb
Columpa C. Bobb (born 1971) is a Canadian photographer, actress, playwright, poet and teacher of Coastal Salish descent. She has been performing, writing plays, and teaching for 20 years. Career Bobb, who is originally from Vancouver, has written over a dozen plays that have been produced across Canada and overseas including ''Jumping Mouse'' (co-written with Marion deVries), a play for young audiences, that was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award and a James Buller Award. Bobb is most recognized for the role of Mary Cook on the CBC Television show ''North of 60'', and also appeared in the short lived series '' The Rez'' and the film '' Johnny Greyeyes''. In 1997 she won a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for her work in Firehall Theatre's production of Drew Hayden Taylor's ''Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth''. She was a cultural instructor and faculty member of the Centre for Indigenous Theatre in Toronto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherish Violet Blood
Cherish Violet Blood is a Kainai actress and storyteller from Canada. She is most noted for her performance as Marie in the 2021 film ''Scarborough'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. Prior to her film debut in ''Scarborough'', she was known for her leading role as Lila in a touring stage production of Tara Beagan's play ''Deer Woman''. For ''Scarborough'', she also received a Vancouver Film Critics Circle nomination for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2021.Dana Gee"The Power of the Dog, Night Raiders lead Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards nominations" ''Vancouver Sun'', February 20, 2022. She has also appeared in the film ''Seeds In botany, a seed is a plant structure containing an embryo and stored nutrients in a protective coat called a ''testa''. More generally, the term "seed" means anything that can be sown, which may include se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tla'amin Nation
The Tla'amin First Nation (Comox language: ɬəʔamɛn), formerly Sliammon Indian Band or Sliammon First Nation, is a First Nations self governing nation whose lands and traditional territories are located on the upper Sunshine Coast in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. The Tla'amin are closely related to the Klahoose and Homalco peoples and have shared their adjoining territories; formerly all three as well as K'omoks were grouped collectively as the Mainland Comox due to their shared language. They have been part of the Coast Salish indigenous peoples of the western coast of Canada since ancient times. The territory of the Tla'amin people extends from the vicinity of Stillwater and the northern part of Texada Island, northward along the Malaspina and Gifford Peninsulas to the southern area of Homfray Channel and part of Cortes Island, including also the smaller off-shore islands such as Hernando, Savary and Harwood as well as Powell, Goat and Haslam Lakes. Their ancest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta'Kaiya Blaney
Ta'Kaiya Blaney (born 2001) is a Canadian First Nations ( Tla A'min) actress, singer, speaker, and environmental activist. Blaney is an ambassador for the Native Children's Survival Indigenous Children Fund and Salish Sea Youth Foundation and is known for giving speeches at United Nations meetings around the world. Awards and achievements For her work in the 2017 film '' Kayak to Klemtu'', Blaney won a Leo Award for Best Lead Performance. She has also appeared in the films ''Savage'' and ''Monkey Beach''. In 2020, she was the recipient of an Indspire Award. Blaney released her first song and music video, "Shallow Waters", at age 10.Mike Hager, "Vancouver teen Ta'Kaiya Blaney's voice captures the world's attention". ''The Globe and Mail'', 31 December 2015. She won the award for Best Music Video at the 2016 American Indian Film Festival The American Indian Film Festival is an annual non-profit film festival in San Francisco, California, United States. It is the world's old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Black Antelope
Julian Black Antelope is an indigenous actor and television broadcaster from Canada.Eric Volmers"Julian Black Antelope puts Indigenous stories in front of the camera and First Nations crews behind it" ''Calgary Herald'', March 4, 2025. He is most noted for his recurring role as Darrien Tailfeathers in the television drama series '' Blackstone'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Performance in a Guest Role in a Drama Series at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. Although Cree and Métis by birth, he was taken from his family in the Sixties Scoop, and raised by a white family in Fort Macleod, Alberta. Because of Fort Macleod's proximity to the Blackfoot peoples, he reconnected with his indigenous heritage through Blackfoot communities, and was later formally adopted by an elder of the Kainai Nation. He began his career in media after being offered a small role in the 2005 television miniseries '' Into the West''. His other roles have included supp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Rajendra Black
Ryan Rajendra Black (born June 10, 1973, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian actor, most noted for his leading role as Silas Crow in the 1994 film ''Dance Me Outside'' and its spinoff television series '' The Rez''. Career A Saulteaux member of the Sagkeeng First Nation, he has also appeared in the television series ''North of 60'', '' Highlander: The Raven'', ''Moccasin Flats'' and ''Cashing In'', the films ''Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story'', '' Elimination Dance'', ''Seven Times Lucky'' and ''Stryker'', and on stage in a production of Ian Ross's theatrical play ''fareWel''. He received a Gemini Award nomination for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 13th Gemini Awards The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television's 13th Gemini Awards were held on October 4, 1998, to honour achievements in Television in Canada, Canadian television. (This year's awards were split into two segments; the first 1998 ceremony was held ... in 1998. Black was a production coordinator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Band
The Paul First Nation, more commonly known as the Paul Band, is a First Nations band government based in Wabamun, Alberta of mixed Cree and Nakoda (Stoney) origin. They are party to Treaty Six and had the Buck Lake Indian Reserve 133C and Wabamun Lake Indian Reserve 133A, 133B and 133C allocated to them by the federal government in 1892. However, the Buck Lake Reserve was decimated by the Spanish Flu of 1918 and is now largely abandoned. As of 2005, the nation had 1,926 members, of which 1,110 lived on-reserve. Paul Band's Wabamun 133A and 133B lands are located along Lake Wabumun, approximately west of Edmonton. The lake is a popular destination for Alberta to spend weekends and holidays, and the band operates the Ironhead Golf and Country Club to appeal to this market. In April 2010, there was a devastating costly wildfire that caused community members to flee. Demographics The Paul Band signed a treaty in 1876 and settled on the eastern edge of Lake Wabamun. While ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Birdyellowhead
Morris Birdyellowhead, also known as Morris Bird, is an Indigenous Canadian actor best known for his portrayal of Flint Sky in the 2006 epic film ''Apocalypto'', directed by Mel Gibson. Personal life He is a member of the Paul First Nation in Alberta. Morris now resides on his reserve Reserve or reserves may refer to: Places * Reserve, Kansas, a US city * Reserve, Louisiana, a census-designated place in St. John the Baptist Parish * Reserve, Montana, a census-designated place in Sheridan County * Reserve, New Mexico, a US v ... raising children and working as an auto mechanic. Filmography References External links * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Cree male actors Canadian male film actors Male actors from Alberta 20th-century Canadian male actors 21st-century Canadian male actors Mechanics (people) {{Canada-screen-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kwena Bellemare-Boivin
Kwena Bellemare-Boivin is an Indigenous film actress, who garnered a nomination for Best Supporting Actress at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards for her performance in ''Before the Streets (Avant les rues)''. A member of the Atikamekw nation from Wemotaci, Quebec, she is the sister of Rykko Bellemare Rykko Bellemare (born 1991) is a Native Canadian film actor, best known for his lead role as Shawnouk in '' Before the Streets (Avant les rues)''. He won the Prix Iris for Revelation of the Year, its award for debut performances, at the 19th Que ..., who played the film's lead role. She also sings and dances with the Atikamekw traditional music group Northern Voice, and has appeared in the APTN television series ''Brigade des Nations'' and ''Le rythme''. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian dancers 21st-century Canadian women singers 21st-century First Nations musicians 21st-century First Nations women Atikamekw people Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atikamekw
The Atikamekw are an Indigenous people in Canada. Their historic territory, ('Our Land'), is in the upper Saint-Maurice River valley of Quebec (about north of Montreal). One of the main communities is Manawan, about northeast of Montreal. Their current population is around 8,000. They have a tradition of agriculture as well as fishing, hunting, and gathering. They maintain close ties with the Innu people, who were their historical allies against the Inuit. The Atikamekw language, likely a variety of Cree in the Algonquian family, is closely related to that of the Innu. It is still in everyday use, being among the Indigenous languages least threatened with extinction. Their traditional ways of life are endangered, however, as their homeland has largely been taken over by logging companies. Their name, which literally means ' lake whitefish', is sometimes also spelt , , , or . The French colonists referred to them as , meaning 'Ball-Heads' or 'Round-Heads'. Some Atihkam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
