Geraldine Keams

Geraldine Keams

Birth : 1951-08-19, Arizona, USA

History

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Geraldine Keams (born August 19, 1951 in Flagstaff, Arizona) is an American actress. She is best known for her work in numerous television series often playing a motherly role. She is a member of the Navajo Nation. She guest starred in the television series, Dharma and Greg as a sweat-lodge medicine woman. She made her debut in the 1976 Clint Eastwood western The Outlaw Josey Wales as Little Moonlight. In recent years, she is also a successful stage actress and storyteller, taking part in children's plays about Indian legends. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geraldine Keams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Geraldine Keams

Movies

Cinema Red: Natives & Horror
Herself
Over the course of four months, urban Native horror director Mike J. Marin (The Smudging) met with nine Native artists to discuss their opinions on horror cinema and the horror genre and how horror films impacted them and what role Native people play in the horror filmmaking process.
Faster
Preacher's Wife
After 10 years in prison, Driver is now a free man with a single focus - hunting down the people responsible for brutally murdering his brother.
Pickin' and Grinnin'
Hopi Woman
Two Brothers. One Dream. No Clue
Buffalo Dreams
Abuela Rose
Josh Townsend finds himself living in New Mexico after his father's new job requires the family to move from their home in Utah. While acclimating to his new surroundings, Josh becomes involved with a group of teens attempting to preserve the buffalo and Navajo traditions. Along the way he makes friends and learns important lessons about life in this Disney Channel Original movie.
A Thousand Roads
The film threads together four stories, taking us into the life of a stressed-out Mohawk stockbroker in Manhattan; a young Inupiat girl sent to live with her grandmother in Barrow, Alaska; a Navajo gang member who must find his core values in his reservation on the mesas of New Mexico; and a Quechua healer in Peru, attempting to save a sick child. Each story explores what it means to belong to a specific community. A Thousand Roads is a fictional work, produced by National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) to explore the human context of the NMAI’s collections. The film is striking visually, and presents through its beauty and its stories an imaginative entry into knowing about Native people living in the vast indigenous geography that comprises the Americas. Rather than presenting a conventional historical perspective, the film is composed of short contemporary fictions about individuals, grounding them in emotional truths to which an audience can easily relate.
Edge of America
Mother Tsosie
From acclaimed director, Chris Eyre, whom People Magazine calls "…the preeminent Native American filmmaker of his time" comes this touching and inspirational story about loyalty, friendship and courage. New man in town Kenny Williams (James McDaniel) has just accepted a position as an English professor at the Three Nations Reservation in Utah. Finding it hard to fit in with the tight-knit Native American community, he decides to take on the challenge of coaching the high school girls' basketball team.
Skinwalkers
Gina
Faced with the murder of three medicine men, Navajo police must find the culprit. That the murders appear to be the work of a Skinwalker, or bad medicine man, complicate and illuminate the detective's work.
The Slaughter Rule
Gretchen Two Dogs
A young man finds solace with a young woman, his mother, and a high-school football coach who recruits him to quarterback a six-man team.
Pocahontas
Thanks
Pocahontas, daughter of a Native American tribe chief, falls in love with an English soldier as colonists invade 17th century Virginia.
The Car
Donna
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff, it becomes the job of Captain Wade Parent to stop the murderous driver.
The Outlaw Josey Wales
Little Moonlight
After avenging his family's brutal murder, Wales is pursued by a pack of soldiers. He prefers to travel alone, but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him - and Wales can't bring himself to leave them unprotected.