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Night Raiders: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on Film’s Indigenous Empathy

Night Raiders: Brooklyn Letexier-Hart on Her Unexpected Opportunity

I spoke to the actress about how she came into the role of Waseese, meeting Goulet and her co-star Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, who plays her mother, Niska. Brooklyn Letexier-Hart as Waseese in Night Raiders (2021) Image courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films "In my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba [Canada], I went for a casting call for background actors, just[...]
Night Raiders: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on Film’s Indigenous Empathy

Night Raiders: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers on Film's Indigenous Empathy

When Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers accepted the role as Niska in Danis Goulet's Night Raiders, she knew it was an opportunity to tell a story of a lifetime Niska is a mother who joins an underground band of vigilantes to try to rescue her daughter (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart from a state-run institution I spoke with the actress about[...]