Myrton Running Wolf’s interview on acting and his quest for participation and visibility for American Indians in Hollywood.

Myrton Running Wolf received praise for his latest short film Soldier. Inspired by true accounts, the story follows two young Lakota sisters — escapees of 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre — as they fight to survive against the U.S. military. Rarely seen in Hollywood, the movie provides a unique perspective of historical American Indian events through a dynamic Native American sibling relationship.

Myrton watched how most Hollywood “diversity and inclusion” initiatives became stale corporate marketing and public relations campaigns. As a result, for more than a decade, he’s worked to incorporate American Indians behind-the-scenes and in front of the camera by filming on tribal lands. Soldier, for example, was filmed entirely on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and in the Toiyabe National Forest.

Over the years, Myrton shared with me the vital need for American Indian participation in mass media as well as our participation in discussions about “Inclusion in Hollywood” — you can read about that in his many essays provided on his personal webpage and Real Last Indians webpage.