
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.

as Silas Crow

as Frank Fencepost

as Sadie Maracle

as Illianna

as Robert McVey

as Ma Crow

as Mad Etta

as Robert Coyote

as Poppy

as Little Margaret

as Joseph

as Clarence Gaskill

as Hobart Thunder

as Wendel

as Gooch