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I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.

Adam Beach

Ever since I started acting, I’ve always spoken to our people about identity. I’ve spoken to kids, telling them: “Where do I get my strength to push through the barriers to get me where I’m at today? It’s my culture and my traditions, you know?
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It’s what we put in our minds and our hearts to succeed. And success isn’t about money.
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Believe Heart Mind Money People Succeed
I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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Complicated Conflict Interested Learning Little Tendency Worked
Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.
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Anger Deal Felt Grow Mirrored Movie Parent Sadness Signal Smoke
After that movie I said, “Y’know what, I have to realistically wear my emotions now when I do a job. That’s gotta be as real as it gets. It’s not just dialogue anymore.”
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Acting for me was an escape and it wasn’t until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow.
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He was out with his friends drinking and on medication for depression, and he didn’t come out of the water alive.
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And I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit.
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I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.
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When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations,
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Energy Especially Faced Military Occupation Oppressive Structural
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.
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Character Children Generation Historical Nice Traumas
This movie shows that perspective from Scott’s character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It’s a nice little twist.
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We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully
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Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was.
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