The Thick Dark Fog

Name: The Thick Dark Fog
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2011-11-05
Duration: 57 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Walter Littlemoon, Manuel Yellow Horse Jr., Joyce Ferrer, Kevin Gover, Pawnee

Reclaiming Native American Identity

8.0 (1)2011-11-0557m

Documentary

Overview

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.