Adam Beach

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Summary

Adam Beach is a Saulteaux actor known for Smoke Signals, Windtalkers, Flags of Our Fathers, and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. His work has often involved Indigenous characters and histories, and he has spoken about challenging stereotyped portrayals and giving native people a voice in film and television. In 2017, he published an open letter calling the casting of non-Native performers in native roles discriminatory and harmful to Indigenous representation; he has also founded the Adam Beach Film Institute to train Indigenous filmmakers. No public party affiliation or campaign support is on record.