Feature film debut, "Police Academy"

TV-movie debut, "Overdrawn at the Memory Bank" (PBS)

First supporting role in feature film, "Blue City Slammers"

First co-starring feature role, "Powwow Highway"

Had large supporting role in TV-movie "Sparks: The Price of Passion" (CBS)

Appeared in the supporting role of the Hopi colleague of Lou Diamond Philips' putupon tribal officer in "The Dark Wind", the film version of Tony Hillerman's detective novel set on a Navajo reservation in Arizona

Debut as a TV series regular, played Capt. Joe Stonetree on the first season of the supernatural cop show, "Forever Knight" (then on CBS)

Co-starred in Canadian drama "Henry & Verlin"; nominated for Canadian Genie Award for Best Actor

Founded and served as editor-in-chief on ABORIGINAL VOICES, an independent Native publication focusing on the communicative arts (date approximate)

Directed short Canadian film "The Hero"; screened at Sundance Film Festival in 1996 as part of the "Beyond Borders: New Native Cinema" program

Co-starred with Johnny Depp in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"; hailed for performance as Nobody, a mixed-blood Indian educated in the East and Europe (released in the USA in 1996)

Appeared in "Smoke Signals"

Film "The Gift" screened at Sundance Film Festival

Returned to Sundance Film Fetival with "What the Eagle Hears"

Made cameo appearance in "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samaurai"

Acted in "Skins", helmed by Chris Eyre and screened at Sundance

Starred as Fagin in "Twist" a queer 'Oliver Twist' update set in the hustler district of modern-day Montreal