Small Ceremonies

Small CeremoniesA 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

Bored by her freshman classes at Moorhead State College

Shirley Jackson meets Friday the 13th in My Heart Is a Chainsaw

to the occupation of the Tohono O'odham reservation and the recent launch of robotic bee swarms

and her family prepare to celebrate the new year

mostly untold history existed alongside the official one: that of how Indigenous peoples and communities had held together during even the most difficult times

On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis’s home his whole life

When we place the 12 Steps in a circle

With deep empathy and clarity of purpose

A noted scholar of Dakota literature with a great gift for languages

a gentle buffalo takes a braid of sweetgrass to a local Elder and asks her to help with a sharing circle for all the animals

Like many Indigenous communities worldwide

consequently there were no menial workers