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Sheila Tousey
Sheila May Tousey (born June 4, 1959) is a Native American actress. Biography Born in Keshena, Wisconsin in 1959, Tousey is a stage and film actress of Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee descent. She was raised on both Menominee and Stockbridge-Munsee reservations. Tousey began dancing as a small child. She did not perform on stage until she attended Albuquerque's University of New Mexico. She initially entered the university's law program, planning to specialize in federal contracts and Native American law, but later changed her major to English. At the time, she started taking theater arts courses. After graduating, Tousey enrolled in the graduate acting program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She directed her first play, ''An Evening at the Warbonnet,'' at the University of New Mexico in 1994. Tousey has become a professional dancer and actress. Her first movie role was in ''Thunderheart'' (1992), and she appeared in '' Medicine River'' that same year. H ...
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Keshena, Wisconsin
Keshena ( mez, KesÄ«qnæh) is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Menominee County, Wisconsin, United States. Located on the Menominee Indian Reservation, it had a population of 1,257 at the 2020 census. Keshena was named for an Indian chief; the Menominee name is ''KesÄ«qnaeh'' which means "Swift Flying". Geography Keshena is located at (44.877932, -88.628781). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.5 square miles (21.9 km2), of which 99.88% is land and 0.12% is water. Demographics 2020 census As of the census of 2020, the population was 1,257. The population density was . There were 364 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the cdp was 96.3% Native American, 2.3% White, 0.2% Black or African American, 0.1% Asian, 0.1% Pacific Islander, 0.1% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races. Ethnically, the population was 2.8% Hispanic or Latino of any race. 2000 census As of the ...
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Silent Tongue
''Silent Tongue'' is a 1994 American Western horror film written and directed by Sam Shepard. It was filmed in the spring of 1992, but not released until 1994. It was filmed near Roswell, New Mexico and features Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates, Dermot Mulroney and River Phoenix. Plot The film is about a young man named Talbot Roe (Phoenix), who has gone insane over the death of his wife. Talbot's father, Prescott Roe (Harris) feels his son's pain and wants to find him a new wife. He goes back to the place where he bought Talbot's first wife, from Eamon McCree (Bates). He finds the dead wife's sister (Arredondo), who is a champion horse rider and Mr. McCree's daughter, which makes her only half-Indian. Roe asks McCree if he could have his last daughter for his son, but McCree refuses. Then, Roe kidnaps her and tries to get her to help him, and she takes the deal for gold and four horses. But Talbot is not taking any chances for her. He is too afraid that she will ...
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1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ...
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Christmas In The Clouds (film)
''Christmas in the Clouds'' is a 2001 romantic comedy film about a ski resort owned and operated by a Native American tribe. Featured at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival, the film went on to receive Best Competition Feature Film at the Austin Film Festival and Best Native American-Theme Film at the Santa Fe Film Festival. The film was released in theaters and on DVD in 2005. Cast * Timothy Vahle as Ray Clouds on Fire * Sam Vlahos as Joe Clouds on Fire * Mariana Tosca as Tina Littlehawk * M. Emmet Walsh as Stu O'Malley * Graham Greene as Earl * Sheila Tousey as Mary * Rita Coolidge as Ramona * Rosalind Ayres as Mabel * Wes Studi as himself Awards See also * List of Christmas films Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year d ... References External links * * ''New York ...
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Into The West (miniseries)
''Into the West'' is a 2005 miniseries produced by Steven Spielberg and DreamWorks, with six two-hour episodes (including commercials). The series was first broadcast in the U.S. on Turner Network Television (TNT) on six Fridays starting on June 10, 2005. It was also shown in the UK on BBC2 and BBC HD from November 4, 2006, and in Canada on CBC Television. The series also aired in the U.S. on AMC during the summer (June/July) and fall (autumn, September/October) of 2012. The miniseries begins in the 1820s and is told mainly through the third person narration of Jacob Wheeler (Matthew Settle) and Loved By the Buffalo (Joseph M. Marshall III), although episodes outside the direct observation of both protagonists are also shown. The plot follows the story of two families, one white American and one Native American, as their lives become mingled through the momentous events of American expansion. The story intertwines real and fictional characters and events spanning the period ...
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Johnny Tootall
''Johnny Tootall'' is a 2005 television film written and directed by Shirley Cheechoo.Laura Stevens"Johnny Tootall to receive wider audience" ''Ontario Birchbark'', Vol. 5 No. 6 (2006). The film stars Adam Beach as the titular Johnny Tootall, a young Indigenous peoples of Canada, First Nations man who joins the Canadian army to fight in the Bosnian War, in a bid to avoid the responsibility of taking on the role of hereditary chief of his community. The film was shot around Vancouver Island, British Columbia with the Nuu-chah-nulth people, Ahousaht Nations people. It won "Best Film" honors at the 2005 American Indian Film Festival."SF Chronicle: ‘Johnny Tootall,’ ‘Trudell,†...
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A Thief Of Time
''A Thief of Time'' is the eighth crime fiction novel Joe Leaphorn / Jim Chee Navajo Tribal Police series by Tony Hillerman, first published in 1988. It was adapted for television as part of the PBS ''Mystery!'' series in 2004. The story involves the lure of the thousand-year-old Anasazi ruins, a missing anthropologist, a stolen backhoe, people who steal ancient pots on reservation land and human ambition. Chee is pulled into the case by the stolen backhoe, while Leaphorn, now a widower, follows the trail of ancient pots bought and sold. This novel won the Macavity Award for Best Novel in 1989 and was nominated for two others: The Edgar Award and the Anthony Award. Hillerman has set expectations high, as this novel is an award-winner, yet "Slightly less absorbing than the best Hillermans, but darkly atmospheric and ultimately powerful--with (as usual) effective contrasts among the theological beliefs of rationalist Leaphorn, mystical Chee, and other Navajos." is the comment o ...
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Coyote Waits
The coyote (''Canis latrans'') is a species of canine native to North America. It is smaller than its close relative, the wolf, and slightly smaller than the closely related eastern wolf and red wolf. It fills much of the same ecological niche as the golden jackal does in Eurasia. The coyote is larger and more predatory and was once referred to as the American jackal by a behavioral ecologist. Other historical names for the species include the prairie wolf and the brush wolf. The coyote is listed as least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, due to its wide distribution and abundance throughout North America. The species is versatile, able to adapt to and expand into environments modified by humans. It is enlarging its range by moving into urban areas in the eastern U.S. and Canada. The coyote was sighted in eastern Panama (across the Panama Canal from their home range) for the first time in 2013. The coyote has 19 recognized subspecies. The average ...
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Dreamkeeper
''Dreamkeeper'' is a 2003 film written by John Fusco and directed by Steve Barron. The main plot of the film is the conflict between a Lakota elder and storyteller named Pete Chasing Horse (August Schellenberg) and his Lakota grandson, Shane Chasing Horse (Eddie Spears). The plot unwinds as the two travel from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to the All Nations powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a trip the grandson takes only under duress. Along the way, the grandfather tells his grandson various Indian stories and legends to help him understand and choose the "good red road," i.e. to embrace an Indian identity. Plot The film opens with Eagle Boy, a young man who is on a vision quest. It then cuts to the present, where a young cynical Lakota named Shane Chasing Horse is living on the Pine Ridge reservation. He is in trouble because he owes some money to a local gang—money he used to buy a beautiful ring for Mae Little Wounded, a girl he likes. Meanwhile, his mother ...
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Skinwalkers (2002 Film)
''Skinwalkers'' is a 2002 mystery television film based on the novel of the same name by Tony Hillerman, one of his series of mysteries set against contemporary Navajo life in the Southwest. It features an all-Native American cast, with Adam Beach and Wes Studi playing officers Jim Chee and Joe Leaphorn. It was produced as part of the PBS ''Mystery!'' series, filmed on the Navajo reservation and directed by Chris Eyre. The film was the highest rated program of 2002 on PBS. It is the first of three television films based on the same series of books, the other two being adaptations of ''A Thief of Time'' and ''Coyote Waits''. It was repackaged in 2016 with the two following films as ''Skinwalkers: The Navajo Mysteries'' on Netflix. Plot Joe Leaphorn (Wes Studi), a seasoned cop accustomed to the city ways of Phoenix, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque, has returned to the Navajo reservation. His wife Emma (Sheila Tousey) is recovering from cancer and feels rejuvenated by the landscape a ...
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Wildflowers (film)
''Wildflowers'' is a 1999 drama film directed by Melissa Painter and starring Clea DuVall, Daryl Hannah, Tomas Arana and Eric Roberts. It features former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass reading some of his own poetry. Filmed in San Francisco and Marin County, California, it was given a limited theatrical release and received a mixed reception from critics. Premise Clea DuVall stars as Cally, a 17-year-old who has been raised by her father, not knowing her mother. When Cally meets a mysterious woman called Sabine, she becomes obsessed with her. Cast * Clea DuVall as Cally * Daryl Hannah as Sabine * Tomas Arana as Wade, Cally's Father * Eric Roberts as Jacob, Sabine's Lover * Richard Hillman as Graham * Eric Yetter as Dylan * Robert Hass as "Poet" * John Doe as Teacher * Sheila Tousey as Martha * Irene Bedard as Ruby * James Burnett as The Tailor * David Graham as "Trip" * Alan Gelfant as Wolf * David Wike as Gahad * Scott Benton as Oliver Distribution ''Wildflowers'' pr ...
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Ravenous (1999 Film)
''Ravenous'' is a 1999 horror Western cannibal film starring Guy Pearce, Robert Carlyle, Jeffrey Jones and David Arquette. The film, which is set in 1840s California, was directed by Antonia Bird and filmed in Europe. It was not a box office success and failed to recoup much of its $12 million budget. However, despite initial reception being mixed when first released, it has since garnered a reputation as a cult film. ''Ravenous'' had a troubled history. Issues over budget and shooting schedules were still ongoing when filming was about to start in Slovakia. After the original director Milcho Manchevski walked off the set three weeks into production, he was replaced by Bird at the suggestion of actor Robert Carlyle. Michael Nyman and Damon Albarn composed the film's score, which generated a significant amount of interest for its quirky and inventive use of loops, instruments and musical structure. Screenwriter Ted Griffin wrote a script that combined elements from the Donner Pa ...
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