Martin Sensmeier, a familiar face from Yellowstone, joins the 1883 journey as Sam. | 1923

“If you’ve never met a Native person and the representation that you do see is somebody up on TV appropriating our culture and romanticizing it, we become a fairy tale,” says actor Martin Sensmeier, who is from the Tlingit and Koyukon Athabaskan tribes of Alaska. Hear him speak with Smithsonian Channel in partnership with IllumiNative for #NativePeoplesHeritageMonth. ⬇️ | Smithsonian Channel