the humanities film series presents

SMOKE SIGNALS

January 6 @ 7 PM

ETC Lecture Hall

Smoke Signals is a 1998 independent film based on the Sherman Alexie short story “This is what it means to say Phoenix, Arizona” from his book Lone Ranger and Tonto: Fistfight in Heaven.  Claiming to be the first feature film written, directed, and produced by Native Americans, Smoke Signals features two young men of the Coeur d’Alene tribe in Idaho—Victor and Thomas.  In a quintessential road movie, their journey off the reservation strengthens their bond and causes them to make realizations about their past and their identities.