Trivia

She was the physical model for the Pocahontas character in the Disney films.

Daughter of an Iñupiaq and a French Canadian/Cree.

Eskimo name is Goodiarook, which means "someone who dropped."

Was the voice of Pocahontas in Pocahontas (1995) the Disney animated film, and went on to play Pocahontas' mother in The New World (2005).

She grew up in Anchorage, Alaska before making her acting debut in 1994.

She had her first son, Quinn, in 2003, after marrying Denny Wilson in 1993.

She earned a 1995 Golden Globe nomination for Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee (1994).

She had a supporting role opposite Louis Mandylor in Spreading Darkness (2017).