Rodney A. Grant Autograph Card

As 2,000 veterans make their way to Standing Rock to hopefully alleviate some of the pressure at the pipeline protest site, where members of over 300 Native American and Aboriginal tribes and a few courageous others who defy the local government's threat of daily $1000 fines for standing alongside people trying to protect not just their land but also their entire region's water supply, I thought I could take a moment to feature character actor Rodney A. Grant - a member of the Omaha tribe of Nebraska - who is perhaps more known for his portrayal of Wind In His Hair in the 1990 Kevin Costner epic Dances With Wolves and legendary warrior Crazy Horse in the 1991 TV movie Son Of The Morning Star.

He also had bit parts in Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), The Jack Bull (1999), Ghosts Of Mars (2001) and both iterations of Ghenghis Khan (1992 and 2010). On television, he was a regular on Hawkeye (1994-95) and had guest spots on Due South, Two and Stargate SG-1.

However, for the purpose of this post, I'll show him from his tiny part in the 1999 flop Wild Wild West starring Will Smith, Kevin Kline, Salma Hayek and Kenneth Branagh, with card #A-13 from Fleer/Skybox's 1999 Wild Wild West collection (and Autograph Series sub-set), with a close-up of his face and an on-card signature in thin (fading) black sharpie:

 I got this card in a re-pack of "Celebrity" cards.

Orestes Matacena Autograph Card

Here's a fun card to celebrate an historic event: Cuban character actor Orestes Matacena plying Spanish Dignitary in the 1999 big-budget flop Wild Wild West, the Will Smith movie that Kevin Smith inadvertently wrote a scene for when he thought he was writing a Superman script for Tim Burton:

It's card #A-10 from Fleer/Skybox's 1999 Wild Wild West collection (and Autograph Series sub-set), with a close-up of Matacena's face and an on-card signature in black sharpie.

You may also know him as Niko from the 1994 Jim Carrey film The Mask.

I got this card in a re-pack of "Celebrity" cards.