Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago, where the mission was to assimilate Native Americans by erasing their culture and identity. The children were forbidden from speaking their language or expressing their native identity, risking severe punishment. This trauma had lasting effects, causing many Native Americans, like Walter, to live with unresolved pain and act it out through addiction and abuse.
The Thick Dark Fog
A young Lakota boy, once disconnected from his cultural identity at a government-run boarding school, sets out to reclaim and strengthen his Native American roots.