In his book, Neither Wolf nor Dog: On Forgotten Roads with an Indian Elder, Minnesota writer Kent Nerburn reluctantly agrees to a meeting with Dan, a Lakota elder who asks him to construct a book from a motley collection of notes and commentaries written over seven decades and kept in an old shoe box. Dan and his friend Grover take Nerburn on a ride through Lakota country in Dan's Buick.
Nerburn's book has been adapted into a new movie by writer and director Steven Lewis Simpson. He previously worked with Native actors and themes on the films Rez Bomb and Thunder-Being Nation. Simpson and the cast and crew are in Rapid City for a private pre-release screening during the Black Hills Film Festival.
Simpson discussed the film Dakota Midday along with actors Christopher Sweeney, who plays Kent Nerburn, and Richard Ray Whitman, who plays Grover.
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