Tanaya Beatty

Personal context

Summary

Tanaya Beatty is a Canadian actress of Da’naxda’xw First Nations heritage, known for Yellowstone, The Night Shift, and Through Black Spruce. Her work includes Indigenous characters and stories involving women’s experiences and the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. Beatty has said she feels responsible for bringing attention to that crisis and serving the Indigenous community through her career, and that such stories can build empathy and change. No public partisan campaigning or broader DEI affiliations are on record.