Overview
Explores the sensitive, and tense, relationship between life on an First Nations reservation and life in the outside world. When Native Canadian Silas Crow is forced to write a personal essay in order to get a much-desired job, he tells the story of the rape and murder of an Indian girl by a drunken thug. When the killer received a lenient two-year sentence for manslaughter, the First Nations community felt shock and anger—and tried desperately to deal with the after-effects of this lack of justice.
Cast
- Ryan Rajendra Black as Silas Crow
- Adam Beach as Frank Fencepost
- Jennifer Podemski as Sadie Maracle
- Lisa LaCroix as Illianna
- Kevin Hicks as Robert McVey
- Rose Marie Trudeau as Ma Crow
- Gloria May Eshkibok as Mad Etta
- Selim Running Bear Sandoval as Robert Coyote
- Sandrine Holt as Poppy
- Tamara Podemski as Little Margaret