`She won for all of us’: Lily Gladstone makes Indigenous history at Golden Globes

By Alexandra Mehl  Local Journalism Initiative Reporter The new year started off making a mark in history when Lily Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet reservation, became the first Indigenous woman to win a Golden Globe as Best Female Actor in a Drama for her performance in Killers of the Flower Moon. “We all cried,” recalled Chad Charlie, an Ahousaht writer and producer, who was watching the Golden Globes with his fiancee and daughter. “We all cried because it’s a historic moment.” “This is something that? opens up a lot of doors, not only for Lily, but everything that she touches,” said Charlie. “I know that Lily has a lot of things that she wants to do, and I know that the moment she gets an opportunity, she’s going…

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