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Tantoo Cardinal on the people she was raised with being her inspiration for acting

Tantoo Cardinal on learning how to act from her grandmother and the people she worked with

Tantoo Cardinal on the Tap Roots Actor Academy she established in 2021 and why it was important to her to create this storytelling community

Tantoo Cardinal on the projects that the Tap Roots Actor Academy works on and the impact on that community

Tantoo Cardinal on the kinds of roles she'd like to have and wanting more powerful and humanizing roles

Tantoo Cardinal on advice to aspiring actors, especially Indigenous actors

Tantoo Cardinal on how working on projects about heavy topics lightens her load

Tantoo Cardinal on finding healing from being able to tell stories

Tantoo Cardinal on Stumptown being the first major series she did in Los Angeles

Tantoo Cardinal on Outlander and the challenges she faced while on the show

Tantoo Cardinal on working with the cast of Stumptown

Tantoo Cardinal on struggling to connect with her character in See

Tantoo Cardinal on Stumptown being canceled when COVID-19 hit

Tantoo Cardinal on her character "Bea Mayer" on Three Pines 

Tantoo Cardinal on working with Tracey Deer and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on Three Pines

Tantoo Cardinal on being on Echo and originally hesitating to take the role

Tantoo Cardinal on her experience on Echo and working with Alaqua Cox

Tantoo Cardinal on encouraging positivity despite the history of violence against and abuse of Indigenous people

Tantoo Cardinal on encouraging positivity despite the history of violence against and abuse of Indigenous people

Tantoo Cardinal on how Killers of the Flower Moon did not show the reality of Indigenous women experiencing violence

Tantoo Cardinal on how Killers of the Flower Moon did not show the reality of Indigenous women experiencing violence

Tantoo Cardinal on the people she was raised with being her inspiration for acting

Tantoo Cardinal on the people she was raised with being her inspiration for acting

Tantoo Cardinal on advice to aspiring actors, especially Indigenous actors

Tantoo Cardinal on advice to aspiring actors, especially Indigenous actors

On her early life and family in Alberta, Canada; on her early school life; on the stigma of being Indigenous and finding out she was Métis; on seeing Harry Daniels and learning about Métis history; on getting food from trapping and train deliveries to the local store

On her family's spirituality and nuns trying to recruit her to go to a convent; on moving to the city for high school and connecting with Cree culture at the Canadian Native Friendship Center; on the stories from her parents' generation being kept secret and having to dig it up; on how community support evolved as funding became tied to politics; on the organizations that were being established at the time, including the Native Communications Society and Voice of Alberta Native Women Society; on how her husband's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement inspired her

On her early acting gig on the CBC docudrama about Father Lacombe and how the opportunity opened up for her; on how the Métis people were betrayed by Father Lancombe and the church; on learning about the craft of acting; on working with Chief Dan George on He Comes Without Calling and the challenges of being able to tell their own truths and stories; on working on Marie-Anne, her first full-length feature

On writing radio plays for Alberta School Broadcasts on the Battle of Batoche and her family's involvement in Batoche; on the 1981 stage play, Jessica, and her roles in the play; on being on Spirit Bay; on the film Loyalties and its impact; on her first experience in Los Angeles doing a Bob Hicks film at the American Film Institute; on working on Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge

Tantoo Cardinal on working on Gunsmoke: Return to Dodge