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“We don’t represent the Navajo people,” says the actor, who is of Lakota, Irish and German descent.

There are other Indigenous cultures that speak about this: the Hopi tribe, the Dogon tribe in West Africa, the Lakota tribes.

The Lakota Sioux of the High Plains put up a heroic resistance to the European immigrants and their descendants who kept coming and coming, prospectors and settlers and soldiers.

FastHorse — a dual citizen of the Sicangu Lakota Nation and the U.S., a MacArthur grant recipient and the first known female Native American writer of a play produced on Broadway — initially resisted the gig.

Democratic incumbent Red Dawn Foster, a member of the Navajo and Oglala Lakota nations, is facing a challenge from Gerald Cournoyer, also a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe.