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FBI Agent Ray Levoi (Val Kilmer) has just been chosen for a special job. A murder has been committed on the Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. There is an armed movement that has been going on for quite some time and it is all but shut down. Levoy is half Sioux Indian, although he has done everything that he can do to hide that fact, the Agency feels that if one of their own is sent, the impact will be less. He is to meet Agent Cucella (Sam Shepard) at the airport. Levoi's white mother remarried when he was just a child after his alcoholic father died. After joining the FBI, he has been a hard-core supporter of the authority of the U.S. government. Now here he is, and he is tracking a fugitive on the Sioux Reservation. He quickly meets and befriends the Indian Sheriff (Graham Greene). This whole murder investigation stinks of a set-up. It isn't long before Levoi can see that there is more going on here than it appears. He meets Maggie, a college graduate from Minnesota who is a teacher and women's rights advocate who tells him about dozens of other murders that have been committed over the last years that have largely gone ignored by authorities. He discovers that there is a plot to discredit and frame American Indian activists, and break their movement. Levoi slowly rediscovers his Indian heritage through association with an old medicine man. He further discovers that he is starting to experience visions of the old, a very rare trait. Through his investigations he finds that Agent Cucella is probably the real murderer of the man who was killed, and that the whole thing is over mineral rights for a section of reservation rich in uranium. This is an excellent film and it adequately shows the poor and helpless status of those Native Americans living on the reservation.Read full review
Four Stars. One for every Val-lover's collection.
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Excellent movie Thank you!!
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Great movie, full of intrique, mystery, western landscape. Its great when the oppressed little guy wins over the corruption of larger forces.
I thought I was getting this movie on DVD/not VHS, but it was my mistake I didn't pay attention. The movie is mystical And if you know the Indian Heritage alot of it is true.Indians are amazing people with great beliefs.
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