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The movie supplies a plot in order to explain why the two Indians need to take their journey, but the plot is the least interesting element of the film. It involves a scheme against Buddy, who is a tribal activist and opposes a phony land-rights grab that's being directed at some Indian territories.
Powwow Highway is a 1989 comedy-drama film from George Harrison's HandMade Films Company, directed by Jonathan Wacks. Based on the novel Powwow Highway by David Seals , it features A Martinez , Gary Farmer , Joanelle Romero and Amanda Wyss .
Sep 1, 2016 · Underlying this comedic road movie is a search of what it means to be a warrior in a modern-day tribal community. Buddy Red Bow, played by A Martinez, one of the few non-tribal members to work on...
Cheerful Philbert embarks on a spiritual quest by bartering for a car in Lame Deer (Montana). Jaded activist Buddy asks for a ride to Santa Fe, New Mexico to help his sister Bonnie, who's been arrested on trumped up charges.
Mar 24, 1989 · The scene-stealing figure in ''Powwow Highway,'' a road movie populated by Cheyenne Indian characters in the vicinity of Lame Deer, Mont., is a sweetly mystical giant named Philbert Bono (Gary...
- Jonathan Wacks
Feb 24, 1989 · Powwow Highway: Directed by Jonathan Wacks. With A Martinez, Gary Farmer, Joanelle Romero, Amanda Wyss. Two Northern Cheyenne men take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico to bail out the sister of one of them who has been framed and arrested in Santa Fe.
When Powwow Highway (PH) hit the Pheasant Drive-In Theater in Mobridge, SD, in the spring of ’89, my maternal grandparents took my brother and me to see it. I remember an impatient evening, waiting for sundown, and then a sense of growing anticipation for darkness to descend on a largely vacant parking lot.
