«Wind River», directed by Taylor Sheridan, wrote the screenplay of «SicarioHell or high water», is a bone chilling thriller that follows a rookie Fni. Agent (Elizabeth Olson), who teams up with a game ranger hunter (Jeremy Renner) who has a history of living on the Arapaho reservation, and a bureau of Indian affairs cop (Graham Greene),to investigate the murder of an Arapaho woman on the wind river reservation in Wyoming. At a deep and icy level, wind river is about power. There is a lot going on here. Federal government non-recognition of missing and murdered native women, white masculinity that has grown full blown into a psychosis of violence and madness. Several psychological historical threads weave through this tapestry. Missing or murdered Native American and Canadian women is a fact in Indian country. I placed a call to the editor of my Cheyenne Arapaho tribal newspaper yesterday. I asked her how many native girls or women were missing on my reserve in the past two m...
