Wind River

Law enforcement on Indian reservations is convoluted and often ineffectual.  The film, “Wind River,” a murder mystery/thriller set on a Wyoming Indian reservation, certainly illustrates the legal jurisdictional issues

Tribal police are not allowed to investigate murders on reservations.  That is the responsibility of the FBI.  In this film, an FBI agent, played by Elizabeth Olsen, teams up with a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent (Jeremy Renner) to solve the homicide of a young Indian girl.  The film also includes a large cast of Indian actors.

I don’t think I will spoil the movie by telling you that pipeline workers are the bad guys.  The film, incidentally, was financed in part by a number of Indian tribes.  It does have graphic scenes of violence, but it also contains some of the most beautiful landscapes I have every seen in a film.  (It was shot in Summit County, Utah.)  You definitely should see it.

P.S.:  My sister-in-law Jeannine, who lives in Sargent, Texas, and my brother-in-law Mark, who lives in Gregory, Texas, about 15 miles from Rockport, both had to evacuate.  Both are fine, but at this point don’t know how their homes have fared.  Trump is going to Texas on Tuesday, but I don’t think that will make either of them feel better.