![]() ![]() 9 if she had seen the changes she had hoped to achieve all those years ago when she chose the acting path. Jeremy Harpe of CJWE 88.1 FM Calgary asked the award-winning actress on Nov. She said she wanted to change the way Indigenous history was told. “It was just intuitive that we just didn’t really belong, or that we’re lesser or something.”Ĭardinal has said her motivation to act came from her involvement in the social justice and political movements of the 1960s. She said it comes after many years of frustration at being kept out though. And at first I was really nervous, like ‘what’s going on here’, but I think what it is is that there’s a shift, and there’s this place that’s opened up that belongs to us.” Indigenous people have been doing great things all along the way, Cardinal said, but not always recognized for their contributions. That’s her interpretation of the accolades she has received in recent years.įrom being made a member of the Order of Canada in 2009 for her contribution to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in this country to her invitation this summer to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which produces the Oscars, she believes that the veil of invisibility is lifting from Indigenous peoples. ![]() “We are becoming visible,” says actress Tantoo Cardinal.
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