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Melaw Nakehk'o
Canadian filmmaker, actress, activist
Melaw Nakehk'o is an actress, artist, traditional moose hide tanner, and co-founder of the First Nations organization Dene Nahjo.
She is primarily known for her role as the kidnapped Arikara woman Powaqa in the 2015 film The Revenant.
Melao nakehk o biography examples
Early life
Nakehko is Dehcho and Denesuline Dene, and was born in Fort Simpson in the Northwest Territories, Canada.[1]
Acting career
The Revenant was Nakehk'o's first film role.
She was at the grocery store with her two young sons one Saturday morning when there was an open casting call in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. "People kept texting me and telling me I should go do this thing," she said.
When the grocery store clerk also told her to try out for the role, she went to the casting call, arriving an hour before it was over. For her audition, Melaw had to improvise a scene with other actors about trading furs for a horse.
"I didn’t have to read anything; it was