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Marika Sila

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Sila focuses on roles which she feels portray Indigenous people in a positive way, saying that her acting career serves to "build a platform so I can speak about important Indigenous rights issues and climate issues." Her first major acting role was in a 2019 episode of
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In 2021, Sila launched RedPath Radio, a podcast aimed at preserving and sharing Indigenous cultural knowledge and stories. She is also the owner of RedPath Talent, an entertainment and
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Sila's TikTok has over 364,000 followers as of April 2023. She began posting on TikTok in April 2020 at the beginning of the
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and community leaders to the bodies discovered at former residential schools. The documentary will be titled
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In March 2022, she announced that she was producing and directing a documentary about the reaction of
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Cover Girl contest. In 2022, she was a model for the third iteration of Project Atigi, a
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Sila has also appeared as a model. In 2020, she was a quarterfinalist in the
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in 2020. Her lead performance as an Inuk paramedic in Canadian horror film
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In September 2022, Sila and her brother Jesse competed in
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when she was five years old. Olympic cross-country skier
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actress, content creator, and social activist. Born in
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Index

Yellowknife
Northwest Territories
Jesse Cockney
Inuvialuk
Yellowknife
Northwest Territories
Tuktoyaktuk
Canmore, Alberta
Jesse Cockney
The Twilight Zone
police procedural
Tribal
Ditched
Inuit elders
The Amazing Race Canada 8
COVID-19 pandemic in Canada
missing and murdered Indigenous women
Canadian Indian residential school system
bodies of children buried at the schools
hoop dancing
fire spinning
talent management
Maxim
capsule collection
Victoria Kakuktinniq
Canada Goose
Lucifer
The Would-Be Prince of Darkness
The Twilight Zone
Tribal

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