Eric Schweig

Eric Schweig is an Inuit actor best known for his role as Chingachgooks son Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans .

Schweig was born in Inuvik, Northwest Territories. He is of mixed race . He is the oldest of seven children, who were all adopted out as part of the Canadian governments failed attempt at assimilating Inuit and First Nations children into Caucasian society. Schweigs biological mother died of alcoholism in 1989. He never met her. She didnt drink a drop of alcohol until we were taken away, says Schweig. We were part of the whole assimilation programforcibly taken away, although my adoptive parents told me I wasnt. Schweig was adopted at six months of age by an English speaking GermanFrench family. He spent his childhood in Inuvik until he was six, when his family moved to Bermuda. They later moved back to Canada.

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