It is 1953.
How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservat.
The US Government calls it an \'emancipation\' bill; but it isn\'t about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity.
He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress.
Thomas Wazhushk is the Night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota.
It is 1953