![]() Her credits include such films as Legends of the Fall, Dances with Wolves, and Black Robe as well as numerous television credits for shows such as Westworld, Outlander, Longmire, and Godless, among others. To date, Cardinal has appeared in over 120 film and television projects. No matter how small the part, Cardinal has felt this to be her duty. Cardinal has been doing her part, throughout a long, successful career, to bring truth to portrayals of the experience of indigenous people of North America, in both film and TV. Stumptown is a nickname for Portland that harkens back to a period in the mid-19th century when growth was happening at such a rapid pace that the stumps of trees were being left behind as the city rose around them.īut Stumptown, which airs on ABC, is situated in present-day Oregon and portrays a contemporary indigenous culture in the region. Tantoo Cardinal, an award-winning actress of Métis/First Nations descent, plays Sue Lynn Blackbird, the CEO of a tribal casino in Portland, Oregon. television series, an indigenous woman is part of the main cast, spotlighted in a regular role. Rucka has a track record of creating strong, diverse female characters, and in the new TV adaptation of Stumptown, by writer/producer Jason Richman, not only is the lead a complicated female military war vet with PTSD (played by Cobie Smulders) but also, for the first time in a U.S. Stumptown was first a comic book series, written by Greg Rucka and illustrated by Matthew Southworth and Justin Greenwood. Media Tantoo Cardinal breaks new ground for indigenous women in television Tantoo Cardinal has appeared in more than 120 film and television projects.
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