There are many actors (aspiring or full fledged) that have Native American ancestry. Just do a Google search to see the number. It i16d0s hardly a rare thing now; in the past it might have been a shock to see an actual minority playing their character's own ethnicity. Some past examples are John Wayne playing Genghis Khan, Jim Thorpe was played (in a movie on his life) by a white actor (I can't remember the famous actors name right now), Bette Davis played a Japanese woman in the movie "Madame Sin"the list goes on. BUT times have changed, just do a little research.