Beautiful Cheyenne chief and shy professor husband are besieged by angry Tea-Party-like militias fueled by anti-Indian sentiments, culminating in a modern cowboys versus Indians battle for the sacred land. [Part 3 of a film trilogy or TV mini-series]

SYNOPSIS:

It’s October 12, 2022, and a roadside bomb kills a dozen motorcyclists at the Columbus Day Parade in Denver. However, the troubles begin ten years earlier, when the discovery of an old Indian treaty sends one-third of Colorado back to the Indians as a reservation. Non-Indians feel forced to leave their homes and businesses, fueling a growing gun lobby and anti-Indian sentiments by ultra-patriotic Americans, the Tea Party on steroids. Our heroes, Professor WES POWELL and Chief SILVER WHITEHORSE have additional troubles on their minds. Silver, the chief of the poor reservation, is overworked in Aspen, while Wes is single-parenting their child, five hours away in Fort Collins. Their marriage is failing faster than the regional economy.

The Columbus Day Parade is hosted by a declining movie star, BLAYDEN JOHNSON, who lost extensive real estate holdings to the new reservation, and is on a break from shooting “Custer’s Very Last Stand” in the Black Hills of South Dakota. The dozen victims are white militant motorcyclists, protesting reapportionment of Indian lands. Everyone blames the Indians. Blayden and his sweetheart, gun association president, Ms. REMINGTON DALTON, secretly advance the notion of a new Colorado militia to restore America to its greatness.

In the course of just one week, we come to realize that white business leaders, a militia commander named JEFF HANKEY, and a growing unlawful militia have two heinous objectives: to force public opinion to dissolve the Colorado reservation, and to prevent the Indians from ever regaining the Black Hills. After more than 140 years of delayed court cases and injustice, the Sioux have not yet reached a settlement with the United States regarding their sacred Black Hills.

Roadside bombs, various acts of terror, and unscrupulous settlement offers from Washington lure in poor Indians, while alienating Indian activists. CHARI CHANTELL, head of the Internal Terrorist Division at the Department of Homeland Security, and TRENTON BANKS from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, lend weak support from Washington.

It’s up to Wes and Silver to defuse and disarm the militia with a “Cash for Guns” exchange in Aspen, but there is no way to avoid the showdown at the All-Nations Indian Powwow at a wolf refuge in the Black Hills at the end of the week. It’s brawn versus brains in a modern “cowboys versus Indians” battle, filled with plot twists and Gatling guns. Villains become heroes, heroes become villains, and our heroes’ marriage is made stronger by adversity, and where the Indians stand to win their second biggest battle in over 140 years.

THE BATTLE FOR THE BLACK HILLS