Reel Indigenous: Post a Pic of a Native American Actor from TV or a Flick
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Jay Silverheels
Includes North, Central, and South America
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Ned Romero
Ned Romero started his show business career as an opera singer; he also appeared in musicals such as Kiss Me Kate and Oklahoma! Romero's ancestry is Chitimacha Native American, French, and Spanish.
He began his movie and television career in the early 1960s. In fact, he appeared in a 1963 episode of the popular TV show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, portraying an opera singer. Romero has acted in many movies, notably Mark of the Gun (1969) and Winchester 73 (1967).
But, his greatest claim to fame in the acting realm has been his seemingly countless appearances on TV shows such as The Virginian, Laredo, Bonanza, Star Trek, Disney’s Wonderful World, Murder, She Wrote, Star Trek Voyager and Walker, Texas Ranger, among many others.
I first saw him in Smoke Signals but have since seen him in other films.
Played Marilyn Whirlwind on Northern Exposure
Perhaps not an actor in the traditional sense - but she was on Sesame Street:
Along with her son, Dakota Wolfblanket Starchild:
The first pic is a bit blurry - but it is a significant one. She was the first woman to be shown breastfeeding on television in the US.
From "Twin Peaks"
… but don’t forget Chief Dan George!
Will Rogers was a member of the Cherokee Nation. He was also a member of the Dawes Rolls, the official list of citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes, which confirmed his citizenship in 1903.
Will Rogers came to Sacramento in 1935 to film John Ford’s “Steamboat Round the Bend," a movie about a high-stakes steamboat race in Louisiana. The Sacramento River stood in for the Mississippi River during filming. The film was released a month after Rogers died in an airplane crash on August 15, 1935.
