There Are Inuit Actors WHY Don't You Want To Cast Inuit Actors Or Try Find New Ones. - Blog Posts

Thank you for this up. Avatar The Last Airbender is one of a handful of Inuit represtation out there in the eyes of the general public. I would know cause I'm Inuit. I am very tired of people (casting directors and Hollywood in general) think that you can just insert any Indigenous actor/actress as apart of any Indigenous Nation. It's why I choose not to watch the netflix live action of Avatar the Last Airbender. I'm tired of people not hiring Indigenous people of the Nation(s) they want to represent. Thank you again for bring this up.

Is every adaptation of ATLA like allergic to casting Inuit actors as the Water tribe characters or something. First we got the whitewashing shitshow "The Last Airbender", then the Netflix adaptation DID mostly cast Native actors as the Water Tribe characters, but Sokka is a pretendian, Katara is played by Mohawk actress Kiawentiio Tarbell plus a white looking Meegwun Fairbrother as another character, and now the Nickelodeon animated adult gaang series cast Jessica Matten, who is mixed Cree/Métis (who, by the way, were historically enemies with Inuit), was cast as Katara. Why.