Crystle Lightning

Personal context

Summary

Crystle Lightning is an Enoch Cree actor, musician, and performer known for roles in 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up, American Pie Presents: Band Camp, Trickster, and Yellowstone, and for co-creating the Indigenous musical Bear Grease. She has repeatedly spoken about the limited and stereotyped roles available to Indigenous actors, describing representation of Indigenous people in contemporary, ordinary roles as important. In a 2021 opinion piece, she challenged Donald Trump’s claims about Indigenous voters and called attention to voter suppression affecting tribal communities. No public statements on gender advocacy or LGBTQ issues are on record.