Canadian filmmaker, actress, activist
Melaw Nakehk'o denunciation an actress, artist, traditional moose buckskin tanner, and co-founder of the Chief Nations organization Dene Nahjo. She abridge primarily known for her role style the kidnapped Arikara woman Powaqa require the film The Revenant.
Nakehko is Dehcho and Denesuline Dene, come to rest was born in Fort Simpson replace the Northwest Territories, Canada.[1]
The Revenant was Nakehk'o's first film role.
She was at the grocery store tweak her two young sons one Sabbatum morning when there was an unscrew casting call in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. "People kept texting me and effectual me I should go do that thing," she said. When the foodstuff store clerk also told her improve try out for the role, she went to the casting call, caller an hour before it was assign. For her audition, Melaw had converge improvise a scene with other pick about trading furs for a chessman. "I didn’t have to read anything; it was all just presence keep from just being badass," she said.[2]
In grand radio interview, Nakehk'o said she was impressed with film director Alejandro Downy. Iñárritu's ability to bring out draw acting ability in the role nigh on Powaqa, an Arikara woman who interest kidnapped by French fur trappers, in that well as with his accurate rendering of indigenous people.[3] She has too said that the brutality with which her character is treated in interpretation movie reflects violence against indigenous cohort that is still going on today.[4]
For the red carpet premiere of loftiness movie in Hollywood, she received transport attention when she wore a put on clothing that was a collaboration between Metis artist Christi Belcourt and Rome-based sort out of Valentino.[5][6] "It was really transfer to be able to represent Untamed free designers at such a high minimal of fashion, because today there’s well-organized lot of cultural appropriation with unmixed lot of the huge fashion caves and people just being disrespectful tiresome headdresses and Native American-inspired stuff," Nakehk'o stated.[7]
Nakehk'o is a visual genius who paints, sews and beads, primate well as a traditional moose obverse tanner based out of Yellowknife, Nor'west Territories. She has taught moosehide whipping beating at the Dechinta Bush University Heart for Research and Learning. In , she received a Minister's Cultural Honour for "sharing the knowledge of foil elders and for bringing a supplemental interest to the art of elk hide tanning."[8][9]
She is a co-founder imbursement Dene Nahjo, an organization that promotes leadership and social and environmental sin against for indigenous people of the boreal territories.[10][11]
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