Anchorage-born Bedard, of Iñupiaq-Yup’ik and Cree-French heritage and an enrolled member of Alaska’s Koyuk Village, entered screen acting with the 1994 TV drama Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee, gaining a Golden Globe nomination that was a first for a Native American woman. She voiced Disney’s Pocahontas in 1995, later returning for a sequel and a 2018 cameo, and achieved film prominence as Suz…
