Even more pressing: the lack of authentic faces on screen, let alone Academy Award nominations beyond Chief Dan George from "Little Big Man" and Graham Greene from "Dances With Wolves." Both were nominated for supporting actor and lost.
"The most difficult of all is the percentage of the Indian actors out there working. It's so low, it's like we're .02 percent, which is below ‘Others' on the graph. We're not even in the minority group, and that's what we're trying to change in Hollywood, because we're not accepted in that field. Yet.
"That's why I think we, as a people, have to now start making our own movies and taking steps into producing and creating these stories, because it is limited in Hollywood."
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Writerfella here --
As before, Adam Beach realizes that he mostly is alone in his position at the top of the entertainment industry. It is not his fault. It simply is that Natives have listened to what the industry has said is their fate: play Indian or die. That was the case back in the 80s when writerfella was active both as a writer and an actor. What he sees now is that nothing has changed. Whose fault is that?
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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