Indspire Awards

Graham Greene was a Canadian First Nations (Oneida) actor and recording artist, active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over 50 years. He achieved international fame for his role as Kicking Bird in Kevin Costner's Dances With Wolves (1990), which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable films include Thunderheart (1992), Maverick (1994), Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), The Green Mile (1999), Skins (2002), Transamerica (2005), Casino Jack (2010), Winter's Tale (2014), The Shack (2017), and Wind River (2017).

Governor General of Canada since 2021

Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist (1943–2023)

American musician

Canadian ice hockey goaltender

Canadian actor

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1968)

Inuit artist (1927–2013)

Canadian ice hockey player

Canadian female distance runner

Canadian actress

Inuit environmentalist

Canadian sculptor, jeweler, painter (1920–1998)

Abenaki artist and filmmaker in Montreal

director (born 1957)

Canoe racer

Canadian ice hockey player

Canadian ice hockey player and coach

Canadian ice hockey player (1970–2023)

Canadian Inuit musician

Anishinaabe [Sand Point, Ontario] artist (1933–2007)

Canadian artist (1919-2016)

Canadian ice hockey player

Canadian singer and actor

Canadian politician (1949-2013)

Canadian writer

Indigenous Canadian actor, playwright, and physician

Canadian politician, first Premier of Nunavut

Canadian writer, presenter, academic, and activist

Canadian lawyer and politician (1951–2024)

Canadian architect

Canadian ice hockey player

Canadian artist of Cree and Anglo-Irish ancestry (1965-)

Canadian politician

Ojibwe writer (1955-2017)

Kanien’kehá:ka elder, Indigenous Canadian women's rights activist, human rights activist (1911-1996)

Canadian writer (1932–2007)

Aboriginal Canadian leader

Canadian playwright and novelist (born 1951)

Canadian writer

Canadian politician (1915-2006)

Canadian boxer

Canadian water polo player

Canadian actress, producer and former politician

Canadian politician

Canadian writer (1929–2015)

Canadian author and sculptor (1931–2007)

Canadian author and academic (1932-2011)

National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations in Canada

Canadian senator

Canadian judge

Canadian politician

Canadian artist (1935–2010)

Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba

Vuntut Gwitchin activist

Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Pan American Games bronze medallist

Chief of the Assembly of First Nations

Canadian artist (1935–2024)

Algonquin leader and artist

Canadian politician (1933-2016)