Since we came upon, posted, and discussed the above interview, both here and on the WWW Board, we have had the good fortune to be able to talk with Eric Schweig directly. Either your adopted or your natural family? I now work with homeless people in Winnipeg, Manitobawe feed them and clothe them. I: What were the good points about the film? ES: Yes, I'd rather be seen as an individual who chooses acting as a profession. There was really very little dialogue between the two of you, but, you both presented a very strong relationship on film despite the lack of dialogue. Was she on the set all the time? SOUNDTRACK || HISTORY || No problem. MOHICANS You seem to be down on period pieces because they cast Indians in loin cloths and stuff like that. I know Could you tell him Eric said "hello"? You have to sit down and focus. She was pretty nice, Jodhi's mom. Before that I had no idea what they were doing up there. anti-anybody. A GUEST AT THE GREAT MOHICAN GATHERING OF 1999. MP: If they remain in a family setting, or beyond that even, where they feel their worth, I guess they'll remain very vibrant? GATHERINGS || MP: Okay. EARLY In COLOR! Like this week. there's 7 or 8 guys that I'm going to speak with. I'd take a picture of every one of them, too! So I told everybody from the beginning. We went down to Columbus, Ga., for a month and trained in this anti-terrorist camp. passionate, heartfelt, and poignantly expressed. COLLECTIBLES || That Cooper's "history" was, in many ways, stunningly accurate? love interest. They'll get a kick out of that. Do you really feel as though you're making a departure from yourself? I started volunteering with Resource Assistance for YouthRaY Inc., and and they hired me to work with them. We sort of guessed at what they would He's pretty intense. impact, and it's art imitating life and vice versa. Was it meant to be like that? I'm not trying to be antagonistic. And we didn't finish till, I don't know, 11, 12 something like that, anyway. MP: So, I get the impression you didn't like Red River much. I: Uncas comes over as the strong and silent character (minus the huge amount of dialogue), but the terrific expressions that you have throughout the film speak for you. So, by the time So, by the time of the interview, we felt comfortable with him, and he with us. There's absolutely no guarantee, but if I'm not doing anything MP: Well, I hate to say "great" that you're not working, but if you're not working it would be great if you could come. Was that ever filmed? ES: I liked the ledge we were shooting on. when you do too much of anything too much alcohol too many drugs. E: I've been with PRIME TALENT for about three years and they audition all over the United States and Canada. Perhaps much is taken out of context. .. We'd sit and talk about playing guitar. EARLY And we had to do a lot of running and stuff. ES: Yeah. They put them in. You know the difference between Indian elders and a lot of other elders? We were shooting assault shotguns together, and flintlocks, and hanging out getting to know each other. How is he different from them? AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS, ADOPTION SPEECH DELIVERED BY ERIC SCHWEIG. How would he feel if film directors did not use native people in native roles? He was ALWAYS doing that. Just go ahead and tell me how you feel about that. And they put in all kinds of unnatural fears into kids' minds, or potentially can. You have a rather large following. Mohican Press - ALL He was one of the leaders of the 70-day siege at Wounded Knee in 1973, an incident which arose out of an AIM dispute with federal and tribal authorities. To Continue Reading Our Interview With Eric Schweig, Move On To: PART 2: ERIC SCHWEIG: AN INTERVIEW. of symbolic imagery. I was homeless when I was a kid. You can find some of his films, including his two favorites, "Tom and Huck" and "Pontiac Moon", listed AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS. That's Andy Fraser. I: What kind of qualities do you think they were looking for, that maybe you had that other people didn't? E: Yes, with the Indians. If they were operable it would have been more fun. Available - Free Downloads Only! I'd go in there and buy 50 CDs at a time. Okay, you're a carver, an actor, a musician, and a drama coach. An anger at the people who made the film and some of those who were cast in it. I'll never forget his annoying voice. He is a film critic and writes the #NativeNerd column. As the film nears the end, the group progresses up a precarious waterfall, one of Hawkeye's friends, Uncas (Eric Schweig) is killed by the men tracking them, and he falls off the edge of the waterfall. MP: Well, I'll tell you what, if you said you'd consider it I think they'd say "anything"! Gregory Harrison . [Laugh]. So, it it is somewhat difficult to have to knock his words. But, nobody went to work. To his credit, he has appeared in over 30 movies over a span of twenty years. MP: Are the original masks, the ones you are recreating are they in museums in Russia? I: The editing in the film is a little off sometimes. We need to come together as a global indigenous community. He kicked off his acting career in 1985 as a cast member of the theatrical show, The Cradle Will Fall, produced at the Actor's Lab by the Theatre of Change. I: When the movie first premiered, did you think it would be such a hit as it has been? They were troubled kids. I don't think. It's so big. They were doing illegal tampering with time cards, skimming hours off time cards and the make-up artists went on strike. It's also the truth that you have to do something about it. There's not enough of us. But it's good for them because they have so much to offer, these kids, and some of There was a golf tournament out there. And I have to say that out of all the cast members, I think you gave a fine performance and we wanted to interview you primarily. E: Yes, we all did, but I like to do as many stunts as I can, except falling off the cliff, of course! MESSAGE BOARD, STOREFRONTS! And I'm waiting to see if I can get the role of Joseph Stone, a cop who's been to Lebanon and all that. Mohican Press - ALL He headed to the big screen following his Broadway performances. Lots of it, and we have to control it. The effect of the battle between you and Magua was very dramatic. But any bonding that happened was probably at Many Hawks, this special operations camp. and I saw the most amazing art work in this school. MP: That's about a hundred years or so. MP: I guess you believe that judgment on any society falls on how they treat their children and their elders? He was just all work, then go home. Both musical pieces heard during this interview are by Tudjaat, One of our problems is finding a voice and speaking up, speaking out really loud too, if you want to. She is the New York-based writer/podcast editor for Filmoria and film contributor at The Interrobang. with us. Master Carver Eric Schweig (Ray Dean Thrasher) learned under the tutelage of renowned Tahltan carver Vern Etzerza. Then I thought about it and it's just that his work ethic is different than everybody else's. But it is hard hitting and touches on all of the socioeconomic problems that we have on the reserves. AMERICAN HISTORICAL SIMULATIONS A lot of these people are among your biggest fans, which is why many of them came to our web site in the first place. To imply that Hollywood is still "sucking the blood" of the Indian is downright misleading. find your voice, man, you can't shut up! MP: Then they'll be there for future generations? When Dances With Wolves came out, the whole thing, it just blew the doors wide open for period pieces about Indian people. I: How do you feel about Indians being depicted in films by white people, in earlier movies? Georgia and me, Wes, Russell, Daniel, and Steven Waddington went out there for about a month and that was about as close to bonding we got. MP: Is that the movie with a band of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers hidden out in the mountains somewhere in modern times? Also the music by Daniel Lanois, a French-Canadian composer. You downgrade, or downplay, other situations in a movie in order to boost you know, like it or not Madeleine Stowe and Daniel Day-Lewis were the stars in that and that's what As long as Europeans or Euro-American film makers are making movies about Indian people, there is always going to be this. E: I would go on and on about the things that were wrong in the movie. You've known him as Uncas. So, beyond that, .. we gotta get with it. Would it be as you just described .. to retake possession of them? MP: You know, in some ways though, contemporary pieces are worse because they're filled with all sorts of horrors and things that wouldn't happen in a million years. You know, what goes around comes around. unless they start writing scripts about contemporary things. Does he know that, in fact, all these characters are not based on fiction? and.. of course they're not gonna care and they're gonna forget everything. Previous to this "formal" interview, we had had several long conversations with Eric, focusing primarily on his hand carved Inuit masks. Are you satisfied with the caliber and supply of Native acting talent these days? ES: If I'm not working, yep! [Laughs] In case people liked ours better! Blackstone's Eric Schweig provides some fun facts about his life. Before taking the role, did you have any familiarity with muskets or did you have to train for that? MOHICANS But you know, it's expected. The Indian guys were okay. If someone wants a reference like, "How was he to work with? We were down there for about a month and we worked with this guy with a beard who was a real outdoorsman. E: This was a part of the thing that didn't get developed properly. That was fun. I spent thousands of dollars at the Asheville Mall. Anything that had to do with the fort . because it was hot in there and it was stuffy. a couple of days and then meet the director, I guess. Smokies, or that Uncas does indeed leave to rescue a daughter of Munro ahead of Hawkeye & Chingachgook in the novel. He was in Columbia, SC at a conference called "Calling All Colors" at the American Indian Center of South Carolina He went to talk to kids about Turning Anger into Art. It is the quality of the account that relegates a piece as history, not necessarily the race or nationality of the chronicler. I'll see you at the movies.". edged sword because for one thing they kept the masks in really good shape. You know, you can't just take a couple of whacks at it with an adze and take off for three weeks and come back and do it, it will take forever. There are a couple of words we just couldn't make out, indicated by a [??] I'm busy!". But they didn't want to shave his hair, so they gave into us. "Please don't release this in English!". RM F6H5NG - Jan 14, 2002; Hollywood, CA, USA; ERIC SCHWEIG (left) as Rudy Yellow Lodge and GRAHAM GREENE as Mogie Yellow Lodge in the crime drama ''Skins'' directed by Chris Eyre. They don't have anybody to talk to and nobody to listen to them. I don't get it because those are our babies. He also creates his own designs and concepts. I work with sex trade workers and I try to hook them up with agencies that can help them. This is "Eric Schweig Demo 2016" by Eric Schweig on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. I don't cut my hair for nobody!" MP: Cast as the Indian all the time, but you'd prefer to be offered a role because you're a good actor? All kids want to do now is rap, which is great and I understand when you turn 15 or 16 you want to express yourself. MP: Throughout the film there is featured some terrific landscapes. But they didn't! for the running and other activities. Could you do me a favor? Since his feature debut in the 1990 drama The Shamans Source, Schweig has made an impressive mark on the acting world in such productions as Squanto: A Warriors Tale, The Scarlet Letter, Ron Howards The Missing, Cowboys and Indians: The J.J. Harper Story, Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis, Cashing In, Casino Jack, and the Emmy-winning Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. effects - without our expressed, written permission, constitutes copyright The point is that it's not really That's Accessibility or. ES: Yeah, they were plowing, they had to use bulldozers to get out to some of the sets, and 4 x 4s. You've given a positive image of a Native American. With funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, CRESST researchers conducted a multi-year evaluation of a major school reform project at Alain Leroy Locke High School, historically one of California's lowest performing secondary schools. But this big uranium mining company finds out he has all this uranium on the property and they come to buy him out. Does he realize that all history is written from a viewpoint? Zusammenfassung: An interview with the director of the series. Have you seen the movie? Personal use on your own home PC is permissible! the least. It was the 1700's, so unless you're over 200 years old you can't really say what went on back there. It was an alternative school for troubled teens who couldn't cope with a regular school curriculum so they booted them all out and put them all in a big building. On days when it got really hot they would carry two or three guys off with the heat. E: Very, very hot and sticky and it rained a lot. between walking around the different classes and hanging around the smoking area, it was .. they had a multi-culturalism program that they had figured out for themselves and they were promoting it. Support Indian Country Today for as little as $10. It's not a monumental, you know, a paradigm change, but it effects them. I: Yes, it does. ES: Let me think about that. E: Yes, to an extent! Or maybe it would be a MP: What WAS filmed? That's what these guys do in the movies. I didn't know the Russians, the Europeans, came from the west coast. The copy we were given is very poor, and was somewhat difficult to transcribe. Out of all the scenes that you did, what was the most difficult? It starts with the individual person. PATHFINDING || But I did a thing recently called Broken Chain, and I'll use that as a reference. He seems like a good guy. They had a pool and a waterfall. ES: Oh, probably Tom & Huck. Now, it is possible that there was more to the interview than that which made it to print. I've never been, well.. they treated me like royalty. ES: Tell them, "Thanks for your support. ES: Basically, yeah. There were so many locations. MESSAGE BOARD, STOREFRONTS! Interview with Eric: All of this info came from an interview (my interview form) on May 2nd 2000. celebrity. But after practicing, after a Personal use on your own home PC is permissible! Besides that, he's a pretty private person. All the sets all the scenes a thousand extras at any given time running all over the place. ADOPTION SPEECH DELIVERED BY ERIC SCHWEIG, An oldie, but goodie 1992 ERIC SCHWEIG INTERVIEW. In COLOR! Things got ugly sometimes and I don't sit around like some of these lap dogs. That's not to say we weren't Rick, I think. ES: Yeah. One in particular was your party's arrival at Fort William Henry. ES: I like playing bad guys. He runs Many Hawks Special Operations Camp in Columbus, Georgia where he I'm getting sick of looking at the same usual suspects all the time. They reminded me of me. ignorance. Ex mercenaries that have seen and done horrible things decide to retire and open up a used car lot. ES: Yes, I have You know who that was? have been because they had aged so much and the paint had flaked off. it was aged down, but we just took a shot at it and it turned out wicked. I told Vern about that. trains action stars in the use of different tactical weapons. Please Note: This interview is the property of Mohican Press. MP: Do you remember what scene you were filming? Or WE start making films of our own, which a lot of us has. You know, bad things happened to me and I left home. and I did bad things. We had a really deep love scene in the cave and they cut that out completely. ES: There's one. It's a DAMN sight better than movies they had in the 50s. There were also a few scenes cut out that should not have been. Okay, I just want to backtrack just a little bit. In the past, a hundred years ago, we would watch our toddlers, and what they had predisposition for doing. I: Well, I've learned a lot today from you and I really thank you for all the time you've given me. It's pretty cool, and that's part of the whole process. It was probably [name omitted] He's the 1st AD. E: Oh, that was the hardest time anyone ever had. He's all business. So, should we start a letter writing campaign? Thanks, Eric. I love. MP: A lot of people have been coming to our web site and checking out your masks. MP: The problem, then, is if all an Indian actor can get cast as is something like that.. that's definitely a problem. But you know who they don't ban? it to them. Your character, Hawkeye, and Chingachgook. there seemed a sense of family. MP: What was your favorite scene in the movie? Powwow Trail (2001- ) Episode: White Man's Indian It was a real pleasure to have the opportunity to talk with Eric. It was really hard to get that damn ball. [Laughing! Most of the time I was either standing or running. That's one of the nicest small towns I've ever been in. We're just dressed in, you know, regular garb and doing things that other people do, and they're timely. We don't have all of the character actors that we need, we don't have bad guys, we don't have comedians, and we don't have the bodies to fill all of the positions. You should do a mask. like that. He is corrupt and if he can't get what he wants done one way, he'll get it done another. I: Where there any significant problems with the movie? ES: Or even Vern. There is no question that the American Indians have been one of the most mistreated peoples in history, certainly on this continent. Eric Schweig makes for a dashing Joseph Brandt, the young Iroquois all the girls swoon over. I would. ES: Yeah, they could have it's all politics. I said "You know what? Eric Schweig is a Canadian actor of mixed Inuvialuk, Chippewa-Dene and German heritage. So, that's good to see. there. It's kind of difficult.. You see a lot of, well, I shells, especially the quiet ones the really, really inward teenagers. It's going to be released here so just brace yourself. He's a nice guy. Indians from all over the country, Canada just everywhere. But I made the bottom of the mask protrude a little bit more. [Sad voice. It was great. Invited to the conference to share his own experiences and perspectives, Eric was pleased to have the opportunity to speak on a topic close to his heart. I try to say this to kids: It has to do with that fear of success. Gorgeous Men. Enjoy! ES: I can see old Asheville. They're supposed to look for stuff like that and make sure it's not in there. shoot. ES: Well .. it was more or less just business to me because nothing's ever historically correct. I: How did you get on with the rest of the cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Jodhi May and Russell Means? I: Some of the scenes, especially in the canoes - was that really you guys? If that's all you can get then, yeah, that's a problem. Where's Marion? I don't mind period pieces as long as it's something positive and not negative. MP: Okay. We've been asked to extend to you an invitation to the gathering on behalf of these people. E: I think they wanted that, but the height did come into it. "In a scene inspired by a Bierstadt painting," says Mann, "they all come together at the creek. MOHICAN PRESS ES: Yeah, it didn't have to be as epic as the battle scene in the valley there, but maybe with half the all the guys but not the inten [breaks off] let's have a hockey game! MP: Well, what I mean is that you guys, in the movie of course, went through every possible trial and tribulation. The following interview with Eric Schweig was conducted, via telephone, on February 1 and 2, 1998. couple of days we had it down to 20 or 30 seconds. I: Was it all shot outdoors or were there any indoor shots, i.e., like the cabin scene? He was somewhat reticent, probably because of the time lapse, about E: There are six different nations in the Mohawk nation. We're heading out." I don't use it. There seems to be something simmering below the surface in much of what he has to say. But people still, especially kids who have this .. it changes the way they see things. I don't think he plays but he'd like to Born: June 19th 1967 Height: 6'2 Weight: 210lbs Eyes: brn Hair: blk Marital Status: none Heritage/Tribe: Inuit/German country: Canada We trained with Colonel David Webster [pause] I think that was his last name. Let us digress we very much want to like Eric Schweig. One of the six and French, so that they could talk amongst themselves. infringement! MP: That's true. 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