Crew
Randy Vasquez
Director
PF
Paul Freedman
Writer
JS
Jonathan Skurnik
Producer
KH
Kahlil Hudson (Tlingit)
Director of Photography
Cast
WL
Walter Littlemoon
self
MY
Manuel Yellow Horse Jr.
Self
JF
Joyce Ferrer
Self
KG
Kevin Gover, Pawnee
Self
The Thick Dark Fog
Reclaiming Native American Identity
201157m8.0 (1)
Documentary
Walter Littlemoon attended a federal Indian boarding school in South Dakota sixty years ago. The mission of many of these schools in 1950, was still to “kill the Indian and save the man.” The children were beaten, humiliated or abused if they spoke their language or expressed their culture or native identity in any way. The trauma led many to alcoholism and violence in adulthood. At age 58, Walter began writing his memoirs as a way to explain his own abusive behaviors to his estranged children, but he could not complete the project without confronting the “thick dark fog” of his past so he could heal.
