Poll: Native American Actors

Results of 354 votes:

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   Graham Greene

    

   (Oneida) born in Ohsweken on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario.
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   Danny Trejo

    

   Yaqui Nation.
3. 3.
   

   Wes Studi

    

   Cherokee Nation.
4. 4.
   

   Will Sampson

    

   A Native American actor of the Creek Nation.
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   Val Kilmer

    

   Val Kilmer is said to be of Cherokee descent on his father's side.
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   Chief Dan George

    

   Chief Dan George was born with the names Geswanouth Slahoot (which was anglicized as Dan Slaholt) to a tribal chief on Burrard Indian Reserve No. 3 in North Vancouver.
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   Elvis Presley

    

   Elvis was descended from a woman named Morning White Dove (she was his maternal great-great-great-grandmother two times over). Morning White Dove is believed by some to have been a Cherokee Native Ame…
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   Zahn McClarnon

    

   His father is of Polish and Irish-English ancestry and his mother is of mostly Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota Native American descent.
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   Gil Birmingham

    

   Gil Birmingham is an American actor of Comanche ancestry.
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    Booboo Stewart

     

    He has Japanese, Chinese, and Korean ancestry on his mother's side along with Scottish, Russian, and Blackfoot ancestry on his father's side.
11. 11.
    

    Jay Silverheels

     

    Mohawk.
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    Rodney A. Grant

     

    Is of the Omaha Tribe and was raised on the Omaha Reservation in Nebraska.
13. 13.
    

    Adam Beach

     

    Member of the Ojibwa Nation (Canadian First Nations).
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    Sonny Landham

     

    He is a descendant of the Cherokee and Seminole Nations.
15. 15.
    

    Michael Greyeyes

     

    He is Plains Cree.
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    Rudy Youngblood

     

    Comanche, Cree & Yaqui Nations.
17. 17.
    

    Branscombe Richmond

     

    Aleutian Nation.
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    Russell Means

     

    Russell Means was born an Oglala/Lakota Sioux Indian.
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    Mo Brings Plenty

     

    He is fluent in the Lakota language, culture and traditions.
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    Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman

     

    He was born on the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Sioux reservation in South Dakota.
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    Buffalo Child

     

    Buffalo Child is a full-blooded Plains Cree Native American.
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    Saginaw Grant

     

    Saginaw is the Hereditary Chief and a respected member of the Sac and Fox, Iowa and Otoe-Missouria Nations.
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    Robert A. Guthrie

     

    ?
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    Litefoot

     

    Cherokee Nation.
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    Eddie Little Sky

     

    Oglala Lakota, born Edsel Wallace Little Sky on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota.
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    Michael Spears

     

    He is a member of the Lakota Sioux Lower Brule Tribe of South Dakota.
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    Chief John Big Tree

     

    A member of the Seneca Nation.
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    Apesanahkwat

     

    Apesanahkwat is an enrolled member of the Menominee Tribe of Wisconsin.
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    Gordon Tootoosis

     

    A Canadian actor of Cree and Stoney descent.
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    Chief Yowlachie

     

    Chief Yowlachie was born in Kitsap County, Washington, and later lived with his family on the Yakima Indian Reservation. Although he was not enrolled in the Yakima Nation, his parents John W. Simmons …
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    Nathaniel Arcand

     

    He is Nēhilawē (Plains Cree), from the Alexander First Nation Reserve.