Scott L. Peterson has worked in theater, modern dance, and voice-over, as well as a mixed bag of other professions too numerous to go into here, but all of which have contributed to his versatility as an actor.

He is an enrolled member of the Heron Clan of the Cayuga Tribe of the Six Nations of the Iroquois.

He is currently recording the published works of Charles Alexander Eastman, a Sioux historian of the last century.