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List Of Indigenous Canadian Actors
This is a list of Canadian actors/actresses who are First Nations, Métis or Inuit. A * Evan Adams, Coast Salish * Allakariallak, Inuit * Nathaniel Arcand, Plains Cree * Gerald Auger, Woodland Cree B * Adam Beach, Saulteaux * Tanaya Beatty, Awaetlatla * Rykko Bellemare, Atikamekw * Kwena Bellemare-Boivin * Morris Birdyellowhead, Paul First Nation * Ryan Rajendra Black * Ta'Kaiya Blaney, Tla'amin Nation * Cherish Violet Blood, Kainai * Columpa Bobb, Tsleil-Waututh * Sonia Boileau, Mohawk * Tina Louise Bomberry, Mohawk * Eugene Brave Rock, Kainai * Joe Buffalo, Cree C * Ashley Callingbull, Cree * Lorne Cardinal, Cree * Tantoo Cardinal, Cree, Métis * Shirley Cheechoo, Cree * Byron Chief-Moon * Robbi Chong, partly Cherokee * George Clutesi, Tseshaht D * Dan George, Tsleil-Waututh * Darrell Dennis, Shuswap * Grace Dove, Shuswap F * Meegwun Fairbrother, Ojibwe * Gary Farmer, Cayuga * Waawaate Fobister, Ojibwe * Cree Summer Francks, Plains Cree (adopted) * Rainbow S ... [...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] |
Kwena Bellemare-Boivin
Kwena Bellemare-Boivin is a Canadian 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 Quebe ..., 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 * Atikamekw people Canadian film actresses Canadian television actresses Actresses from Quebec Singers from Quebec Algonquin people First Nations actresses First Nations musicians First Nations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kainai Nation
The Kainai Nation (or , or Blood Tribe) ( bla, Káínaa) is a First Nations band government in southern Alberta, Canada, with a population of 12,800 members in 2015, up from 11,791 in December 2013. translates directly to 'many chief' (from , 'many' and , 'chief') while translates directly to 'many chief people'. The enemy Plains Cree called the Kainai , 'stained with blood', thus 'the bloodthirsty, cruel', therefore, the common English name for the tribe is the ''Blood tribe''. The Kainai speak a language of the Blackfoot linguistic group; their dialect is closely related to those of the Siksika and Piikani. They are one of three nations comprising the Blackfoot Confederacy. At the time treaties such as Treaty 7 were signed, the Kainai were situated on the Oldman, Belly, and St. Mary rivers west of Lethbridge, Alberta. The Kainai reserve Blood 148 is currently the largest in Canada with 4,570 inhabitants on and is located south of Calgary. Economy The Kainai Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Brave Rock
Eugene Brave Rock is a Canadian actor and stunt man. Brave Rock started as an actor, before being trained as a stuntman; he later appeared in various minor television roles before landing his first major film role as Chief in ''Wonder Woman''. Biography Brave Rock grew up on the Kainai Nation reserve in Alberta and attended the Plains Indian Cultural Survival School in Calgary, where he landed his first role in a play. He was later trained as a stuntman, and performed for the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show in Disneyland Paris. Upon his return to Calgary, Brave Rock worked on several television productions as a stuntman and actor, taking on minor roles in ''Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee'', Heartland, Blackstone, Klondike and Hell on Wheels Hell on Wheels was the itinerant collection of flimsily assembled gambling houses, dance halls, saloons, and brothels that followed the army of Union Pacific railroad workers westward as they constructed the First transcontinental railro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohawk People
The Mohawk people ( moh, Kanienʼkehá꞉ka) are the most easterly section of the Haudenosaunee, or Iroquois Confederacy. They are an Iroquoian-speaking Indigenous people of North America, with communities in southeastern Canada and northern New York State, primarily around Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. As one of the five original members of the Iroquois League, the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka are known as the Keepers of the Eastern Door – the traditional guardians of the Iroquois Confederation against invasions from the east. Historically, the Kanienʼkehá꞉ka people were originally based in the valley of the Mohawk River in present-day upstate New York, west of the Hudson River. Their territory ranged north to the St. Lawrence River, southern Quebec and eastern Ontario; south to greater New Jersey and into Pennsylvania; eastward to the Green Mountains of Vermont; and westward to the border with the Iroquoian Oneida Nation's traditional homeland territory. Kanienʼkehá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Louise Bomberry
Tina Louise Bomberry (c. 1966 – February 10, 2018) was an Aboriginal Canadian actress, who performed in film, television, and on stage. She was best known for her role as Rosie Deela in the series ''North of 60'' and its three television films. Career A member of the Mohawk Nation, Bomberry trained as an actress at Toronto's Native Theatre School in 1986 and Ryerson University in 1988. Her first credited appearance was a minor role in the 1989 television film '' Where the Spirit Lives''. She also appeared in the 1993 adaptation of the novel ''Medicine River''. From 1992 to 1997, she portrayed Rosie Deela in ''North of 60'' and its three follow-up films: ''In the Blue Ground'' (1999), ''Another Country'' (2003), and ''Distant Drumming'' (2005). In 1995, her work as Rosie was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role. She also performed with the De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group. Personal life In June 2015, Bomberry was involved in a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonia Boileau
Sonia Boileau is a Canadian First Nations filmmaker belonging to the Mohawk Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Biography Sonia Bonspille-Boileau was raised between Oka, where her French-Canadian father hails from, and Kanesatake, the community of her Mohawk mother. Her 2010 film, ''Last Call Indian'', focuses on her personal connections to her Kanesatake, government intervention into Indigenous life, and her family's ties to the Shingwauk Indian Residential School. Boileau is bilingual, and has created, directed, and produced works in both English and French. Education Bonspille-Boileau has received an extensive and well-rounded education in multiple facets of creative performance and film production. She honed her craft and acquired her first degree in dramatic arts from College Lionel Groulx. Shortly thereafter, she attended the Université de Montreal securing a minor in film studies. From here, she continued to round out her knowledge of film production at the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsleil-Waututh First Nation
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation ( hur, səlilwətaɬ ), formerly known as the Burrard Indian Band or Burrard Inlet Indian Band, is a First Nations band government in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The Tsleil-Waututh Nation ("TWN") are Coast Salish peoples who speak hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓, the Downriver dialect of the Halkomelem language, and are closely related to but politically and culturally separate from the nearby nations of the Squamish and (Musqueam), with whose traditional territories some claims overlap. The TWN is a member government of the Naut'sa mawt Tribal Council, which includes other governments on the upper Sunshine Coast, southeastern Vancouver Island and the Tsawwassen band on the other side of the Vancouver metropolis from the Tsleil-waututh. There are almost 600 members with 287 living on the reserve as of January 2018. According to the 2011 national Community Well Being Index, Burrard Inlet 3 is considered the most prosperous First Nation communit ... [...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. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cherish Violet Blood
Cherish Violet Blood is a Kainai Nation, Kainai actress and storyteller from Canada. She is most noted for her performance as Marie in the 2021 film ''Scarborough (2021 film), Scarborough'', for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Canadian Screen Award for Best Supporting Actress, 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 Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Canadian Film, 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. References External links * 21st-century Canadian actresses Canadian film ... [...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 anc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta'Kaiya Blaney
Ta'Kaiya Skoden Stoodis Kayden Gwanden Blaney (born 2001) is a singer, award-winning actress, speaker, and environmental activist from the Tla A'min Nation in British Columbia, Canada. She is an ambassador for the Native Children’s Survival Indigenous Children Fund and Salish Sea Youth Foundation and is known for giving speeches at UN meetings around the world, including Rio+20 and TUNZA UN. Awards and achievements For her work in the 2017 film ''Kayak to Klemtu'', Blaney won a Leo Award for Best Lead Performance. In 2020, she was the recipient of an Indspire Award. Her other works and nominations include the film ''Monkey Beach'' and two Leo Award nominations for Best Performance. Blaney released her first music release and music video, “Shallow Waters,” at age 10, which “brought her national acclaim and earned her multiple awards and cultural honors” (Romero). For her latest music picture, “Earth Revolution,” she won the Best Music Video at the 2016 America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
