Hollywood has a long history of making things different or plain exclusive Native American and other indigenous populations, a sad truth that made Killers of the Flower Moon Star Lily Gladstone’s win for best actress in the motion picture (drama) category at the 81st annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night is all the more poignant.
Gladstone, who is of Piegan Blackfeet, Nez Perce and European descent and grew up on the Blackfeet Nation’s Montana reservation, is the First Indigenous person wins Golden Globe for best actress. “This is a historic victory. It’s not just mine,” the actor said, addressing the crowd at the Beverly Hilton in the Blackfeet language for the first time in the awards show’s history before thanking their mother for “work.”[ing] worked tirelessly to get our language into our classrooms, so I had a Blackfeet language teacher growing up.
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“I’m so grateful that I can speak even a little bit of my language here, which I don’t speak fluently, because in this business, native actors would speak their lines in English, and the sound mixer would turn them backwards to provide the native language for the camera,” Gladstone continued. They added: “This is for every little rez kid, every little city kid, every little indigenous kid who has a dream and sees themselves represented in our stories told by ourselves, in our own words, with great allies and a enormous confidence. from within, from each other.” Hopefully this win is just the first in a series of award show season recognitions for Gladstone, not to mention many others deserving indigenous actors is currently helping to transform the entertainment industry.
