Tatanka Means

Tatanka Means

1985-02-19 Porcupine, South Dakota, USA 25 Credits

Biography

Tatanka Wanbli Sapa Xila Sabe Means [Black Buffalo Eagle] is a Native American actor, comedian, boxer, entrepreneur, and activist of Oglala Lakota, Omaha, and Dine descent. He is best known for his roles in Saints & Strangers and Tiger Eyes. Tatanka is one of nine children of Oglala Lakota activist Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement, and himself an actor.

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Opus

Opus

2025

as Najee

5.7
Acting

A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star's cult ...

Say a Little Prayer

Say a Little Prayer

2024

as Jared Raincloud

Acting

Three best friends recite an ancient prayer to the patron saint of “all things lost” to find their true loves, unleashing an unexpected turn of events...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2

2024

as Taklishim

7.6
Acting

Explore the lure of the Old West and how it was won—and lost—through the blood, sweat and tears of many. Spanning 15 years before, during, and followi...

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

2024

as Taklishim

6.9
Acting

In 1859, families discover the lure of the Old West as they settle in territories from Wyoming to Kansas. Meanwhile, a gruff cowboy soon finds himself...

The Windigo

The Windigo

2024

as Ogichidaa

3.8
Acting

An ancient Chippewa demon, the WINDIGO, is resurrected by a Native American teenager and his grandmother to protect their family after a run-in with b...

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon

2023

as John Wren

7.4
Acting

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the myste...

Surrounded

Surrounded

2023

as Scar

6.1
Acting

After her stagecoach is ambushed, a woman is tasked with holding a dangerous outlaw captive and must survive the day when the bandit’s gang tries to ...

Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher

Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher

2021

as Rising Wolf

5.8
Acting

A Chickasaw man survives great hardships and tragedy to establish a vast ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West.

Once Upon a River

Once Upon a River

2019

6.0
Acting

After her father’s violent death, Native American teenager Margo Crane flees down Michigan’s Stark River in search of her estranged mother. On the way...

Native Stand Up

2017

as John

7.0
Acting

John performs stand-up comedy for the first time. It actually goes pretty okay.

Minutes

Minutes

2017

as John Locklear

6.1
Acting

In this comedy series, shot in single takes, six young people each experience pivotal moments in their lives that don't quite go as planned and lead t...

Shangri-La Suite

Shangri-La Suite

2016

as Officer Gingrass

5.8
Acting

Karen and Jack met in a mental hospital and fell in love. They set out to follow what Jack thinks is his destiny: killing Elvis Presley.

The Hybrids Family

The Hybrids Family

2016

as Lance Hatton

6.2
Acting

A movie about a dysfunctional family of vampires and witches, it is mostly focused on the two children who are hybrids.

Neither Wolf Nor Dog

Neither Wolf Nor Dog

2016

as Delvin

10.0
Acting

A white author is sucked into a road trip through the heart on Native American Country by a Lakota elder and his best friend forcing the author into a...

Burning Bodhi

Burning Bodhi

2016

as Lucas

4.1
Acting

Lifelong friends stumble back home after high school when word goes out on Facebook that the most popular among them has died. Old girlfriends, boyfri...

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

2015

as Joe

6.7
Acting

Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. The...

A Million Ways to Die in the West

A Million Ways to Die in the West

2014

as Other Apache

6.1
Acting

As a cowardly farmer begins to fall for the mysterious new woman in town, he must put his new-found courage to the test when her husband, a notorious ...

The Host

The Host

2013

as Seeker Hawke

6.3
Acting

A parasitic alien soul is injected into the body of Melanie Stryder. Instead of carrying out her race's mission of taking over the Earth, "Wanda" (as ...

The Sixth Gun

The Sixth Gun

2013

as Victor Birdsong

3.0
Acting

Failed pilot adaptation of an eponymous comic book set in the old west about six cursed guns that give dark powers and are tied to its owners until th...

Tiger Eyes

Tiger Eyes

2012

as Wolf - Martin Ortiz

6.1
Acting

After Davey's father is killed in a hold-up, she and her mother and younger brother visit relatives in New Mexico. Here Davey is befriended by a young...

Universal VIP

Universal VIP

2012

Acting

Still working through the grief of losing her only child, Thelma, a young Blackfeet woman in Browning, MT, is taken advantage of by friends who use he...

Sedona

Sedona

2011

as Chuck

5.6
Acting

A soul-searching comedic adventure set among famous red rocks and vortexes of Sedona, Arizona, visitors to the mystical town encounter eccentric chara...

The Burrowers

The Burrowers

2008

as Tall Ute

5.9
Acting

It is 1879 in the Dakota Territories, a band of men who set out to find and recover a family of settlers that has mysteriously vanished from their hom...

Wind River: Rising

N/A

Acting

Terror has escalated on the Wind River reservation as a series of ritualistic murders remain unsolved. The FBI therefore enlists the aid of Hanson, a ...

Canyon of the Dead

Canyon of the Dead

N/A

as Seechi

Acting

Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.