Gift Horse: A Lakota Story Molalla based on the Academy Award–contending

based on the Academy Award–contending short film

Jerry Sawanas grew up near Magnus Lake and is a Sandy Lake First Nation member from Northwest Ontario

" all of these works explore both what it means to be a woman and how those realities are complicated by the Native American experience

Drawing references and inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition

and post-secondary contexts to explore the ways in which Indigenous and Slow approaches to teaching and learning mirror and complement one another

Gift Horse: A Lakota Story Molalla based on the Academy Award–contendingAn action packed coming of age story, Gift Horse is a wonderfully evocative introduction to 19th century Native American life on the Great Plains. When his father gives him a gift horse, marking the beginning of his journey to manhood, Flying Cloud and the horse, Storm, spend their days hunting and roughhousing with the other boys and their horses. But when an enemy raiding party steals his beloved Storm, Flying Cloud faces the ultimate rite of