Any other indigenous people like this film?

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Good luck with your film, it sounds like a wonderful idea, and something I would very much like to watch! :)

I'm not Native American, but I really liked both "Smoke Signals" & "The Business of Fancydancing", as well as many others... One of which is "The Doe Boy" which, though very sad, I found to be very moving indeed. I still tear up and begin to get emotional just thinking of it... Of the Cherokee Brave scene towards the end, and of the plot twist I didn't for the life of me see coming. :(

In any case, good luck - I haven't realy seen any urban-centered Native American films - even "The Business of Fancydancing", which deals with leaving the res, and with identity and sexuality issues, takes place more on the res than in the city... Good luck!

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Loved it, Im a treaty Indian from Saskatchewan Canada who had watched this movie several times and i last saw it during one of my University classes, a film class. Awsome.

I'm not really the target of this thread, not being indigenous... but I have to say that I really liked it, and I'm glad to see all of you saying it was so realistic--it certainly seemed that way to me. Up til then, the only movies I'd seen with Indian actors or characters were old westerns, where they're always the stereotypical bad guys, or the Dances With Wolves type of movie, which focuses on the white wannabe and plays up the noble savage stereotype, but doesn't really show what life is like for indigenous people today--and, more importantly, doesn't tell the story from the native point of view. (Thunderheart also falls into that trap, even with a contemporary setting.) We non-natives seriously need a reality check on that. If and when your movie gets made, I'll definitely see it, with or without big name stars. Best of luck!

My grandfather is a Seneca in Upstate New York, in the Finger Lakes Region. I am not recognized among the tribes here, but my heart sings. I left feedback for this film because I heard too many white people speak of how "cute" it was; how "sad" it seemed; how they "hoped if there was another film it would be happier." I worked in a video store at the time, I've got a dreamcatcher on my left bicep, a thunderbird on my right, kokopelli on the back of my neck, a life spiral on my right wrist, and yet not one white person could hear what I was saying about reality. No one would go with me to Salamanca, the Rez here. My dad's never been there. He can't get why I go there, and why my kids like to be there. He's never heard the earth cry even though he was brought up with a lot of the old ways. I think this movie, Alexie's stories and novels, and all of the other indigenous voices need to rise up and bring attention to reality before our beautiful mother earth is so damaged she never sings again.

Wakan tanka nici un~Great spirit walk with me and guide me

I'm only about 1/16th cherokee, but I grew up in the slums of the Tulalip Indian reservation on the Puget Sound in WA. Born and raised until 1993. I could feel for this movie, anyone who sees me will automatically view me as any other caucasian, but I grew up with this *beep*. I mean rez cars, so much I can relate to. guess I'm kind of like the white kid who grew up in the black suburbs right? ah well. anyways, good luck with this movie.