Evan Adams: Voice of Raven

Evan Tlesla Adams is a Coast Salish writer/actor and physician from the Sliammon Band near Powell River, BC, Canada. His television credits include the Emmy-winning TV Movie Lost in the Barrens and its nominated sequel Curse of the Viking Grave. Besides numerous episodics like The Beachcombers and Black Stallion, he also appears in the feature film Toby McTeague and the Fox-TV movie Lakota Moon.

Evan has scripted a half-hour for the CBC anthology series Four Directions called, My Father’s So and has recently completed two other screenplays: Stonefaces for Wild Bunch Productions of Vancouver, and Seagull, co-written with Anne Cameron. His new, one-man show, Son of Raven, has received staged readings at the Museum of Anthropology, UBC and at the XV Commonwealth Games in Victoria.

More recently, Evan starred as Thomas Builds-The-Fire in Smoke Signals. He also won Best Actor awards from the American Indian Film Festival, and from First Americans in the Arts, and a 1999 Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance.

Evan is the past host of Aboriginal Peoples Television Network’s #1 rated show Buffalo Tracks, was a regular on the CBC’s night time TV series These Arms of Mine and can soon be seen in the new American feature film, The Business of Fancydancing.