If Lily Gladstone wins an Academy Award for her performance in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” she would be the first Native woman to receive an Oscar. Before her, there was a century of work that tended to go unrecognized.
In Wes Studi’s potent and pioneering acting career, he has played vengeful warriors, dying prisoners and impassioned resistance leaders. For three decades, he has arrestingly crafted wide-ranging portraits of the Native American experience. But one thing he had never done in a movie is give someone a kiss. “I thought…