Ta'Kaiya Skoden Stoodis Kayden Gwanden Blaney (born 2001) is a singer, award-winning actress, speaker, and

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from the

Tla A'min 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 southwes ...

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

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and TUNZA UN.

Awards and achievements

For her work in the 2017 film ''Kayak to Klemtu'', Blaney won a

Leo Award The Leo Awards are the awards program for the British Columbia film and television industry. Held each May or June in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the Leo Awards were founded by the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of British C ...

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

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 oldest venue dedicated solely to Native American/First Nations films and prepared the way for the 1979 formati ...

in San Francisco, California.

References

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* 2001 births Living people 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century First Nations people 21st-century Canadian women singers Actresses from British Columbia Canadian film actresses First Nations actresses First Nations musicians K'omoks Musicians from British Columbia Indspire Awards {{Canada-activist-stub