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October 2005
 Actor
Gordon Tootoosis (Cree) has
played over 45 roles in film and television, including Growling
Bear in TNT's Into the West, Floyd in On the Corner,
Marvin Fishinghawk in The Doe Boy, and One Stab in Legends
of the Fall. He played Albert Golo for five seasons in the
popular CBC series North of 60 and Chief Big Bear in the
CBC mini-series Big Bear. Tootoosis broke into film in
1972, as the Almighty Voice in Alien Thunder, directed
by Claude Fornier and starring Chief Dan George, and has voiced
animations including Christmas at Wapos Bay and Pocahontas.
A life-long resident of the Poundmaker Cree Nation in Cutknife,
Saskatchewan, where he has served on the tribal council, Tootoosis
is an accomplished cowboy, and has toured the Americas with the
Plains Intertribal Dance Troupe. He was the honorary co-chair
of the Regina 2005 Canada Summer Games, and is a sought-after
powwow MC and public speaker.
Screened by NMAI
Image credits: Gordon
Tootoosis - photograph by Allen Fraser
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