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Encyclopedia > List of Native American actors

This is a list of Native American actors. This article is about the people indigenous to the United States. ...

Irene Bedard (22 July 1967) is an actress best known for her portrayal of Native American characters in a variety of films. ... Tonantzín Carmelo is an American actress. ... Johnny Depp (born John Christopher Depp II[2] on June 9, 1963, in Owensboro, Kentucky) is an Academy Award-nominated and SAG Awards-winning American actor and for his performances in the films Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ed Wood (1994... Rodney A. Grant (born March 9, 1959 on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota) is an American Indian actor from Macy, Nebraska. ... Angela Michelle Harmon Sehorn (born August 10, 1972) is an American fashion model and television/film actress. ... Michael Horse is an American actor, jeweler, and painter. ... Jack Hoxie Jack Hoxie (January 11, 1885 - March 28, 1965) was a notable rodeo performer and motion picture actor whose career was most prominent in the silent film era of the 1910s through the 1930s. ... Stepfanie Kramer (born August 6, 1956) is an American actress and singer. ... Sean Wei Mah (born 14 December 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada) is a Cree actor and artist[1] who is sometimes credited as Sean Mah. ... Russell Means (born November 10, 1939) is one of contemporary Americas best-known and prolific activists for the rights of American Indians. ... Carson Wayne Newton (born April 3, 1942, in Roanoke, Virginia) is an American singer and entertainer based in Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Moses Brings Plenty is a Lakota Sioux spiritual leader, actor, and speaker. ... Burt Reynolds (born Burton Reynolds Jr. ... Alex Rice (sometimes credited as Alex Kawisenhawe Rice[1]), born on the Kahnawake Mohawk reserve in Quebec, Canada, is a Native American actress who spent her childhood in Brooklyn, where she began acting. ... Branscombe Richmond (sometimes credited in films as Richmond Branscombe, Ranscombe Richmon or Branscom Richmond) is a Native American character actor, stuntman, and lead singer in a band called The Renegade Posse. He was born in Los Angeles, California on August 8, 1956. ... Ned Romero (born 1925 in Franklin, Louisiana) is an American actor who has appeared in television and film. ... Chitimacha The Chitimacha (also Chitimachan, Chetimacha) are a Native American group that lives in the U.S. state of Louisiana, mainly in St. ... Will Sampson (September 27, 1933 - June 3, 1987) was a Native American Muscogee (Creek) actor and artist from Hitchita, Oklahoma. ... Larry Sellers (b. ... Jay Silverheels (June 26, 1912 – March 5, 1980) was a Canadian Mohawk Indian actor. ... Wesley Wes Studi (born December 17, 1947) is an American actor of Cherokee Indian descent. ... Jay Tavare is an actor of Native American/Latino descent. ... Max Gail & Floyd Red Crow Westerman on set of the feature film Tillamook Treasure Floyd Red Crow Westerman, born in 1936, is a Dakota musician, activist and actor born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota. ... David Carradine (born John Arthur Carradine on December 8, 1936 in Hollywood, California) is an American actor. ... For other uses, see Cherokee (disambiguation). ... This article is about Cher, the entertainer. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Frederick Ward (born December 30, 1942) is an American actor. ... Heather Locklear (born September 25, 1961 in Westwood, California) is an American actress, primarily on soap operas, movies and television. ... Gavin MacLeod (born February 28, 1930) is an American actor, notable for playing Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat. ... Del Zamora was born in (Roswell, New Mexico), the oldest of three children, and is of Apache Mescalero/Mexican heritage. ...

See also

This is a list of actors from Canada with First Nations heritage: Adam Beach Ryan Black Columpa Bobb Lorne Cardinal Tantoo Cardinal Byron Chief-Moon Darrell Dennis Gary Farmer Cree Summer Francks Rainbow Sun Francks Dan George Mervin Good Eagle Graham Greene Jimmy Herman René Highway Dakota House Tom Jackson...

Footnotes

  1. ^ [1]"akaRic Bungard /Munsee Delaware,Cree,Dutch-Father, Hunkpappa, Cherokee,German-Mother-Mother( Little Jay) and Grandmother ( Minnie Josaphine Pritchett) members of Buffalo Bills Wild West, Chief Little Soldier-Born California or Ohio, November 20, 1947-Tribal Chief, 37 years-Activist,Author, actor-Quick and the Dead,1993, White Buffalo,1976, Wild Angels, 1967. Has changed or affected the change of more then 25 laws, early member American Indian Movement, Ohio 1973.Currently writing a new book of his life as Chief of his people"
  2. ^ [2] "Cochise Anderson, a Chickasaw and Mississippi Choctaw from Oklahoma..."
  3. ^ [3] "Born in Anchorage, Alaska to a full-blood Inupiat Eskimo mother and a half Cree/half French Canadian father... A manifestation of her love for her Native People is Irene's ongoing involvement in Aboriginal rights and her willingness to be outspoken on issues and at events."
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  5. ^ [5] "Rodney A. Grant is a well-known celebrity in the Native Community. A Native American actor who is in support of Native American issues and is always willing to speak for the Native American people."
  6. ^ [6] "Official website of Cree actor Michael Greyeyes..."
  7. ^ [7] "Angie Harmon: "It would be shaping my eyebrows. Being half Greek and half American Indian, I have the unibrow. So once I started working on them, I really did see a change. You create another kind of beauty."
  8. ^ [8]
  9. ^ [9] "in an interview with LeRoy Sebastian in 1963, he said "Pastor, I am an Indian, and therefore I have lived these many years believing in the Red Man's God..."
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  11. ^ [11] "Stephanie Kramer also intends to resume her music career, preparing a new album. Meanwhile, she devotes herself to Indian children. "I'm half Cherokee. I'd like so much for these children, who are a bit mine, to continue their studies. Life is hard In their land ravaged by extreme poverty. Thanks to an official organization, we can help them." T he good-hearted actress has even taken a little girl from the Hopi tribe under her wing and she contributes a lot of money."
  12. ^ [12]Sean Wei Mah, also credited as Sean Mah, is a Cree actor and artist, born 14 December 1976 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He portrayed "High Horse" in the 2003 TV-movie Dreamkeeper, "Heavy Shield" in the 2005 TV mini-series Into the West, and "Ben Wheelock" in the 2005 film It Waits (IMDB.com). Geocities webpage
  13. ^ [13] "Over the past 12 years Zahn McClarnon (Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux) has made dozens of appearances on TV, cable network movies and feature films."
  14. ^ [14] "The L.A. Times has described him as the most famous American Indian since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse."
  15. ^ [15] "Wayne is very proud of his Native American heritage and had the distinguished honor of hosting the first ever “Native American Music Awards,” where he was voted the “Native American Entertainer of the Year.”"
  16. ^ [16] "Moses Brings Plenty is a Lakota born at Pine Ridge reservation. Young spiritual leader, he carries within him the voices of his ancestors and particularly Crazy Horse."
  17. ^ [17] "Native American Actor and TV Producer"
  18. ^ [18] "the half-Cherokee actor had..."
  19. ^ [19] "By birth, actress Alex Rice is a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk)..."
  20. ^ [20] "Of Aleut Indian descent, Branscombe has said, "I am a Native American first, last and always.""
  21. ^ [21] "Will was a Muscogee Creek Indian born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma, in 1934."
  22. ^ [22] "He drew on his heritage as an Osage/Cherokee/Lakota Indian to also become an educator, historian and historical consultant."
  23. ^ [23] "Jay Silverheels was born on a reservation in Canada to a Mohawk chief."
    • Michael Spears<ref>[http://www.tv-now.com/intervus/mspears/] "conversation with the Native American actor Michael Spears was a must-do assignment for me after I heard his incredible voice in [[Steven Spielberg]]'s "Into the West,""</li>
    <li id="_note-23">'''[[#_ref-23|^]]''' [http://www.mohicanpress.com/mo06018.html]</li> <li id="_note-24">'''[[#_ref-24|^]]''' [http://www.cowboysindians.com/articles/archives/0104/jay.html] "Features an article about the Native American actor who broke stereotypes in high-profile films."</li> <li id="_note-25">'''[[#_ref-25|^]]''' [http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/A354]</li> <li id="_note-26">'''[[#_ref-26|^]]''' [http://www.shiningelk.com] "Patrick D. Shining Elk is Eastern [[Shoshone]] from the [[Wind River Reservation]] in [[Wyoming]]. He is an actor, stuntman and NDN Cowboy."</li> <li id="_note-27">'''[[#_ref-27|^]]''' http://www.searchers2.com]</li></ol></ref>

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