Who is Wes Studi you might ask?
Why, he’s the Native American Danny Trejo of course! Wes Studi is probably best remembered for playing Magua in the 1992 Michael Mann version of The Last of the Mohicans. He’s the pockmarked, tough living, Native American man of few words who has appeared as the pockmarked, tough living Native American man of few words in films like Dances With Wolves and Mystery Men. More specifically, Wes Studi belongs to the Cherokee Nation and spoke Cherokee as his primary language until he started school. He also served in the US military for 18 long months during the Vietnam war. So he comes by his pockmarks, his tough life and his Native American culture honestly. As his official web site www.thestudigroup.com will gladly point out, Mr. Studi is also a sculptor, a political activist and a musician. So although Hollywood generally will only pull him off the shelf if they need some stoic looking Indian to hand out kernels of Earthy wisdom or righteously kick some European settlers asses, they are
