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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Opus
2025
as Najee
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
2024
as Jared Raincloud
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
2024
as Taklishim
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
2024
as Taklishim
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
2024
as Ogichidaa
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
2023
as John Wren
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
2023
as Scar
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
2021
as Rising Wolf
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
2019
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
John performs stand-up comedy for the first time. It actually goes pretty okay.

Minutes
2017
as John Locklear
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
2016
as Officer Gingrass
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
2016
as Lance Hatton
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
2016
as Delvin
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
2016
as Lucas
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
2015
as Joe
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
2014
as Other Apache
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
2013
as Seeker Hawke
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
2013
as Victor Birdsong
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
2012
as Wolf - Martin Ortiz
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
2012
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
2011
as Chuck
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
2008
as Tall Ute
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
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
N/A
as Seechi
Two archaeologists seek out the Canyon of the Dead and the dead find them.