the medicine wheel

of childhood recaptured in the reflection of a shiny blue woodstove

the American Indian history of assimilation

largely cobeneficial relationship

including the complex role of state and local governments as well as corporations

Small Ceremonies environment the medicine wheelA poignant and heart wrenching coming of age story that follows the friendships, hopes, fears, and struggles of a group of Native high school students from Winnipeg, Manitoba's North End, illuminating what it's like to grow up in the heart of an Indigenous city. Word on the street is that this is the Tigers' last season. For Tomahawk "Tommy" Shields, an Indigenous, image obsessed high school student from Winnipeg, the potential loss of his team serves