| Debut as a TV series regular, played Capt. Joe Stonetree on the first season of the supernatural cop show, "Forever Knight" (then on CBS) |
1984 | Feature film debut, "Police Academy" |
1985 | TV-movie debut, "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (PBS) |
1988 | First supporting role in feature film, "Blue City Slammers" |
1989 | First co-starring feature role, "Powwow Highway" |
1990 | Had large supporting role in TV-movie "Sparks: The Price of Passion" (CBS) |
1991 | Appeared in the supporting role of the Hopi colleague of Lou Diamond Philips' putupon tribal officer in "The Dark Wind", the film version of Tony Hillerman's detective novel set on a Navajo reservation in Arizona |
1994 | Co-starred in Canadian drama "Henry & Verlin"; nominated for Canadian Genie Award for Best Actor |
1994 | Founded and served as editor-in-chief on ABORIGINAL VOICES, an independent Native publication focusing on the communicative arts (date approximate) |
1995 | Co-starred with Johnny Depp in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"; hailed for performance as Nobody, a mixed-blood Indian educated in the East and Europe (released in the USA in 1996) |
1995 | Directed short Canadian film "The Hero"; screened at Sundance Film Festival in 1996 as part of the "Beyond Borders: New Native Cinema" program |
1999 | Appeared in "Smoke Signals" |
1999 | Film "The Gift" screened at Sundance Film Festival |
2000 | Made cameo appearance in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samaurai" |
2000 | Returned to Sundance Film Fetival with "What the Eagle Hears" |
2002 | Acted in "Skins", helmed by Chris Eyre and screened at Sundance |
2004 | Starred as Fagin in "Twist" a queer 'Oliver Twist' update set in the hustler district of modern-day Montreal |
