Tantoo Cardinal

Personal context

Summary

Tantoo Cardinal is a Cree-Métis actor known for work including Dances with Wolves, North of 60, and Killers of the Flower Moon. She has described entering acting through political involvement and using her work to encourage fuller stories about Indigenous people, especially Indigenous women. Cardinal has repeatedly spoken about Indigenous representation, Indigenous rights, colonialism, and environmental protection; she was arrested at a 2011 protest against the Keystone XL pipeline and has publicly supported Black Lives Matter.