K. Adams

Had to watch to the end! Couldn't give up and that is the sign of a good movie.

Having visited this reservation as a child in the late 1960's early 1970's, I was shocked at the living conditions in the land of the free, a supposed democracy. I was so moved and distraught that as an adult I took my children there so they too, could understand this really horrific US history. How can anyone expect our Native American population to overcome the desperate conditions, abuse, genocide, etc. that we did to them in just a few generations? It isn't as if the isolation and desperation has ended. Native Americans got the worst this nation had to offer. There was a chief in what is now MT whose 7 children were taken and sent to Catholic run schools, basically prisons filled with torture and abuse and all 7 of his children died. You can't fix that in a few generations and when as a country have we ever even publicly apologized as a nation to our native population? This film is so important and I am so grateful it has been made. We lost so much fascinating culture by decimating the many tribes that made up this population. I hope this film brings understanding and attention to the plight of the lives of American citizens on reservations. Some reservations are just too remote to be able to change their economics with gambling, a horrible way for them to have had to turn around their economics but nevertheless one that has worked for some but brought all of the problems that come with it. Then people wonder why things that happen in this movie happen. Thank you for this film.