Wolf
Synopsis
Focusing on three Mardi Gras Indian Chiefs, Bury the Hatchet offers a dynamic portrait of the unique and endangered culture of New Orleans.
Descendents of runaway slaves given harbor by the Native Americans in the bayous of Louisiana, these practitioners of a hundreds-year-old tradition sew elaborate costumes resembling those of the Indians and parade through the city on Mardi Gras day.Following these men, we experience the vulnerability of the black community in New Orleans—from the destruction of middle class African-American neigh-borhoods to make way for an interstate highway, to the violence that once defined their culture, to police crackdowns, to the reality of aging and death, and, finally, to the absolute devastation of their community following Hurricane Katrina.
2010 New Orleans Film Festival Award Winner
- Louisiana Feature*
