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==Career==
[[File:Tantoo Cardinal 2001.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Cardinal in 2001]]
Cardinal has played roles in many notable films and television series, including ''[[Spirit Bay (TV series)|Spirit Bay]]'', ''[[Loyalties (1986 film)|Loyalties]]'', ''[[Dances with Wolves]]'', ''[[Black Robe (film)|Black Robe]]'', ''[[Legends of the Fall]]'', ''[[Smoke Signals (film)|Smoke Signals]]'', ''[[Hold the Dark]]'' and ''[[North of 60]]''. She was cast in the [[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]] mini-series ''[[By Way of the Stars]]'' with [[Gordon Tootoosis]] as the Cree Chief and [[Eric Schweig]] as Black Thunder.

In 2009, she was made a member of the [[Order of Canada]] "for her contributions to the growth and development of Aboriginal performing arts in Canada, as a screen and stage actress, and as a founding member of the Saskatchewan Native Theatre Company".<ref name=":0">{{cite web| url= http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469| title= Governor General Announces 57 New Appointments to the Order of Canada| work= gg.ca| date= December 30, 2009| publisher= Office of the Secretary to the Governor General| access-date= December 30, 2009| archive-date= August 27, 2013| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130827132612/http://www.gg.ca/document.aspx?id=13469| url-status= live}}</ref>

[[File:Tantoo Cardinal HandPrint Edmonton.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Cardinal's Hand print on the Aboriginal Walk of Honour in Canada]]

On August 23, 2011, Cardinal, [[Margot Kidder]], and dozens of others were arrested while protesting the proposed extension of the [[Keystone Pipeline]].<ref>{{cite news |title= Margot Kidder arrested at White House oil protest |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/margot-kidder-arrested-at-white-house-oil-protest-1.1112044 |website= CBC.ca |publisher= CBC News |date= August 23, 2011 |access-date= February 25, 2021 |archive-date= November 19, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121119114856/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/story/2011/08/23/edm-keystone-xl-oilsands-protest-kidder-arrested.html |url-status= live }}</ref>

In 2012, Cardinal portrayed [[Regan (King Lear)|Regan]] in an all-aboriginal production of [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[King Lear]]'' at the [[National Arts Centre]] in [[Ottawa]], alongside a cast that also included [[August Schellenberg]] as Lear, [[Billy Merasty]] as Gloucester, [[Jani Lauzon]] in a dual role as [[Cordelia (King Lear)|Cordelia]] and the Fool, and [[Craig Lauzon]] as Kent.<ref name=aboriginal>{{cite news| url= https://ottawacitizen.com/life/Aboriginal+cast+staging+King+Lear/6612207/story.html |title= Aboriginal cast in staging of King Lear| work= [[Ottawa Citizen]]| date= May 12, 2012| access-date= }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

She played Marilyn Yarlott for three seasons as a recurring cast member in the Netflix series Longmire, a Crow hunter and medicine woman who lives alone in the vast wilderness of the Crow reservation.  

In 2017 she was named the winner of the [[Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television]]'s [[Earle Grey Award]] for lifetime achievement.<ref>[http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/living/2017/1/12/tantoo-cardinal-among-those-getting-special-canadian-screen-awards.html "Tantoo Cardinal among those getting special Canadian Screen Awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170113164319/http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/living/2017/1/12/tantoo-cardinal-among-those-getting-special-canadian-screen-awards.html |date=January 13, 2017 }}. ''[[The Guardian (Charlottetown)|The Guardian]]'', January 12, 2016.</ref> She has also won a [[Gemini Awards|Gemini Award]], a National Aboriginal Achievement Award (now [[Indspire Awards|Indspire Award]]) and was inducted into [[Canada's Walk of Fame|Canada’s Walk of Fame]].<ref name= CanEncyc/>

In the 2018 film ''[[The Grizzlies]]'', she plays a high school principal who is skeptical that a first-time teacher can address social issues in the northwestern [[Nunavut]] community of [[Kugluktuk]].

On November 26, 2021, Cardinal and several other laureates received the [[Governor General's Performing Arts Award|Governor General's Performing Arts Awards]] after a nearly two-year delay due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>[https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cardinal-reynolds-ohara-governor-general-award-1.6265369 "Tantoo Cardinal, Ryan Reynolds, Catherine O'Hara receive their Governor General's awards"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128083919/https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/cardinal-reynolds-ohara-governor-general-award-1.6265369 |date=November 28, 2021 }}. ''[[CBC News]]'', November 27, 2021.</ref>