DreamKeeper (2003)

Actors: Tantoo Cardinal (actress), Gordon Tootoosis (actor), Grace MacLeod (miscellaneous crew), Stephen Warbeck (composer), Gary Farmer (actor), August Schellenberg (actor), David Midthunder (miscellaneous crew), David Midthunder (actor), Jason Nolan (miscellaneous crew), Steve Barron (director), Matthew O'Connor (producer), Flo Krisko (miscellaneous crew), Chantal Teasdale (miscellaneous crew), Nathaniel Arcand (actor), Chris Swinney (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to the great powwow, an Indian meeting. While traveling, Grandpa tells mysterious Indian tales of love, friendship and magic.

Keywords: american-indian, blackfoot-tribe, bow-and-arrow, buffalo, cactus, campfire, car, car-chase, cave, ceremony
Genres: Drama, Fantasy,
Taglines: A grandfather who believes in tradition. A teenager who believes in today.

Quotes:

Shane: There they go, a van full of Cheyenne hotties and we're stuck here with the horse that rode in with Lewis & Clark.

Shane: Hey, borrow some cash?::Janine: Oh, yeah, there's a million dollars in casino money underneath my dresser. Just leave me a few thousand.

Grandpa: Who the hell's chasing us?::Shane: Just some guys, grandpa.::Grandpa: They must be after Three Moons, my war horse.::Shane: No, they're after my ass!::Grandpa: Better off with my horse.

Blue Bird Woman: I am a Lakota woman. I want to be won.

Grandpa: It's gonna rain.::Shane: What, the spirits tell you that?::Grandpa: No. The bullet I got in my hip in France tell's me that. It hurts like hell when it's gonna rain.

Sky Woman: ...We must all lose what we love sometimes. It is the way. [from the Thunder Beings legend]

Grandpa: It has been said that the young people of today are our warriors of tomorrow. I look at you and say, 'we're in big trouble.'::Shane: You know, sometimes you can be a mean old man.

Grandpa: We're Sioux. Pine Ridge, South Dakota.::Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: Hey, all right. My great-grandmother's grandmother, well, her aunt - she was one-third Kiowa.::Grandpa: Ah Kiowa - strong Nation.::Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: Yeah, hey, could I hitch a ride with you, brothers?::Shane: No. No room, man. We're towing a horse.::Tehan, Red Headed Stranger: That's cool, man. Hey maybe I'll catch you at the powwow. [walks away]::Shane: Wannabe.::Grandpa: Maybe he's trying to be connected.::Shane: 'Cause they stole our land? Now they want our sweat lodge?::Grandpa: Their fathers stole our land. Long ago it was said, 'the white man would look on in disbelief as his sons and daughter began to adopt the Indian way. To learn what their fathers didn't understand.' Yeah... he's a wannabe. He wanna be connected.

Talks A Lot: Will no man raise a war party to go free one of our own? Was not Tehan captured from the whites and raised as our own? Has he not hunted with you men and smoked with the elders? Has he not proved himself loyal to the Kiowa? How many times could he have returned to the white man? His heart is with us.::Broken Lance: Talks A Lot talks too much! [crowd laughs]::Talks A Lot: Because his blood is not our blood, we turn our backs on him now. If no man will fight for one of our own... then I will. [from the Red Headed Warrior legend]

Grandpa: I can almost smell the fry bread. We're not far. [traveling to the powwow]