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Birth Name: Elle-Máijá Apiniskim Tailfeathers
Place of Birth: Cardston, Alberta, Canada
Date of Birth: c. 1986
Ethnicity: * father – Sami * mother – Blackfoot First Nations
Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is a Canadian filmmaker, actor, producer, and curatorial assistant. She co-directed, co-wrote, and starred in, the film The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open , directed and wrote the documentary Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy , and has starred in the films Blood Quantum and Night Raiders .
Her father, Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, who is from Norway, is Sami, and is a Sami rights activist and journalist. Her mother, Esther Tailfeathers, is a Canadian doctor, of Blackfoot First Nations descent, from the Kainai Nation. Her parents met at an indigenous rights conference in Australia. Elle-Máijá lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, on the Blood Reserve in Alberta, and on Sapmi territory in Norway.
She advocates for issues affecting First Nations communities.
Source: http://elle-maija-tailfeathers.com