About Me
They made us many promises, more than I can remember. But they kept one. They promised they would take our land…and they took it.†–Chief Red Cloud.
The lack of understanding between cultures is always related to ignorance.
We all have many questions about one another we would ask if we could or if we had the courage.
Some these unanswered questions about Native Americans that have lingered for generations are the subject of this film .
Many questions have been blown away by the wind, and many answers have burned in the fires.
To get to know ones’ neighbor is not to become a neighbor, but rather to learn to respect him and his culture, his roots and what he is.
This documentary tells the story of the meeting between a young Native American teacher from the Lakota tribe, Moses Brings Plenty who is a descendent of the Lakota , and a 12-year-old French boy named Eli Torelli has come here to learn about the Indians that fascinated him in France.One night, Eli dreams of a native man, and the next day Moses Brings Plenty comes to his school to lecture. Moses will become Eli’s guide, bringing him to his reservation in Pine Ridge South Dakota, bringing to light and introducing to him the world of the Lakota elders, and the reality of life on a reservation in the present day.
Eli, who is sincere and forthright in only the way children can be, will receive, from the elders, heritage from the past, learning their history, their suffering and their culture.
At the same time he will discover what the fruits of this history are and witness their everyday life on a reservation and the problems they have to deal with from day to day.
Brings Plenty and Eli will continue their spiritual voyage in the past exploring the ghastly history of Wounded Knee in 1890 up to the present . Eli will learn that the problems besetting his friend Moses’ people, actually affect some of the of Native Americans of our times.
