Every April growing up in East Texas, Vincent Neil Emerson and his family traveled to Louisiana for their tribe’s annual powwow. For that one weekend of the year, the future singer-songwriter was immersed in the culture of his mother’s people, the Choctaw-Apache. He was dazzled by the spectacle of the dances, the drums and song, which were performed, at times, in traditional regalia, jewelry, and beadwork.
Those memories were seared into his mind.
“It’s always been a huge part of my life. It’s how I was raised,...
Those memories were seared into his mind.
“It’s always been a huge part of my life. It’s how I was raised,...
- 11/24/2023
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
This mesmerising documentary follows the turbulent life of a young Native American woman as she returns to racing after a year off
This melancholy but beautiful documentary spends three years following Sharmaine Weed, a young Native American woman in her 20s who loves bareback horse racing, a sport favoured by Indigenous people in the region of the Rocky Mountains. Director Kim Bartley follows Sharmaine’s struggle to get back into racing after having taken a year off, spent helping to look after her younger sister who was paralysed after an accident on the racetrack.
Entwined with this story is a subplot about Sharmaine’s passionate but tempestuous relationship with city girl Savannah Martinez, who comes to live with Sharmaine and her family on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming, But the lovers must also both contend with the after-effects of surviving horrifically abusive childhoods, with families on both sides that...
This melancholy but beautiful documentary spends three years following Sharmaine Weed, a young Native American woman in her 20s who loves bareback horse racing, a sport favoured by Indigenous people in the region of the Rocky Mountains. Director Kim Bartley follows Sharmaine’s struggle to get back into racing after having taken a year off, spent helping to look after her younger sister who was paralysed after an accident on the racetrack.
Entwined with this story is a subplot about Sharmaine’s passionate but tempestuous relationship with city girl Savannah Martinez, who comes to live with Sharmaine and her family on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming, But the lovers must also both contend with the after-effects of surviving horrifically abusive childhoods, with families on both sides that...
- 9/26/2022
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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