Graduate of The Centre for Indigenous Theatre's Native Theatre School
program in 1974.
Awarded honorary doctor of law degree in June 2008, from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, close to the Oneida reserve where he is from.
Played a character named James Clearwater on the show Numb3rs in 2005 and then played Harry Clearwater in Twilight: New Moon in 2009.
Playing Shylock in the Merchant of Venice and Lenny in Of Mice and Men at the Stratford Festival, Stratford, Ontario, Canada. (August 2007)