The Thick Dark Fog, and an interview with director Randy Vasquez
Many people think the story ended for Native Americans with the loss of their land and culture to the white settlers. But this loss of home, family and tradition was just the beginning. Not many people know about the continued distortion and destruction of the native identity that took place in the form of the Indian boarding school system. Walter Littlemoon came forward as a survivor of the horrible abuses that he experienced in two of these schools via his book, They Called Me Uncivilized: Memoir of an Everyday Lakota Man from Wounded Knee, which he wrote with the help of his wife Jane . In the documentary The Thick Dark Fog , we follow Walter as he continues to relate his experiences, revisits the places where his childhood was taken from him, and regains his sense of self. Among the many captivating points to this film, there's a particular power to the fact that we witness a man talking through and expressing the effects of trauma, laying himself emotionally ...