Saginaw Grant and Rick Mora.
Two top Native American actors, Saginaw Grant and Rick Mora, were welcomed to New Zealand by members of Te Atiawa iwi this week. The pair is in New Zealand to host workshops at Armageddon Wellington.
Saginaw Grant is a member of the Sac and Fox Nation, and the Otoe Missouria Tribe. Aged 78, as an actor he has appeared in many film and television shows including Breaking Bad, The World’s Fastest Indian and The Lone Ranger (2013). He trained as a US Army Marine and he is a spiritual leader. He recently led the walk-out of native actors from the filming of an Adam Sandler movie, The Ridiculous Six, for cultural insults. Rick Mora, of Yaqui and Apache origin, is an actor, model, author, photographer and presenter. His appearances include Twilight and Turok: Son of Stone.
