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Wind River is a 2017 neo-Western crime film written and directed by Taylor Sheridan.It is the third film by Sheridan on the modern American West. The film stars Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen as a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service tracker and an FBI agent, respectively, who try to solve a murder on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
Kaylee, a Native American woman and former professional boxer, is now a drug addict living in a women's shelter and working as a waitress. Some time ago, Kaylee's younger sister Weeta was abducted and forced into prostitution by a sex trafficking ring. She is one of the hundreds of young girls who go missing every year.
Showtime approached Matthew Galkin about directing a documentary revolving around Missing and murdered Indigenous women, Galkin then approached Razelle Benally about co-directing the project. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Benally knew families affected by the violence and worked with the movement, and approached people who had already been vocal of their ...
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'Searching for Savanna' tracks only one of thousands of Indigenous women kidnapped or killed on Native reservations. It's a hard, necessary story to tell.
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women [a] are instances of violence against Indigenous women in Canada and the United States, [1] [2] notably those in the First Nations in Canada and Native American communities, [3] [4] [5] but also amongst other Indigenous peoples such as in Australia and New Zealand, [2] and the grassroots movement to raise awareness of MMIW through organizing marches ...
Dark Winds is mostly filmed at Camel Rock Studios — the first-ever Native American-owned film studio — located in Sante Fe, N.M. The backlot movie ranch features standing sets, shooting stages ...
Stolen Women: Captured Hearts is a 1997 made-for-television film directed by Jerry London. The film stars Janine Turner as Anna Morgan, a woman living on the plains of Kansas in 1868 who is kidnapped by a band of Lakota people. It also stars Patrick Bergin, Jean Louisa Kelly, Michael Greyeyes, and Rodney A. Grant. The story is loosely based on ...