Event

"Dakota 38"

"Dakota 38"
A Free Film Screening at the Heard Museum
Wednesday, February 20 at 6:30pm
2301 N. Central Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona

You are warmly invited to come to the Heard Museum's Steele Auditorium for the Arizona screening of a powerful new film, Dakota 38 -- a feature length documentary film by Smooth Feather Productions. See the trailer at http://smoothfeather.org/dakota38/

In the spring of 2005, Lakota Spiritual Leader Jim Miller had a dream that he rode east for many days on horseback, eventually coming to a river, across from which he saw 38 of his ancestors hanged. Jim later discovered that he had dreamt of an actual event from 1862 at Mankato, Minnesota where President Abraham Lincoln ordered the simultaneous You are warmly invited to come to the Heard Museum's Steele Auditorium for the Arizona screening of a powerful new film, Dakota 38 -- a feature length documentary film by Smooth Feather Productions. See the trailer at http://smoothfeather.org/dakota38/

In the spring of 2005, Lakota Spiritual Leader Jim Miller had a dream that he rode east for many days on horseback, eventually coming to a river, across from which he saw 38 of his ancestors hanged. Jim later discovered that he had dreamt of an actual event from 1862 at Mankato, Minnesota hanging of 38 Dakota men, the largest mass hanging in United States history.

In December of 2008, Jim and many others retraced on horseback the route of his dream as a means of bringing healing and reconciliation to all people.

Doors will open at 6:00 PM and light refreshments will be served in the Atrium. Film will start at 6:30 PM with discussion afterward.

Jim Miller, the Lakota Spiritual leader who inspired the film, his wife Alberta Iron Cloud, and Eric Noyes of the American Indian Institute will all be present to have a conversation about the film after the screening.