The Silent Enemy
(1930, 88 min. Black-and-white. 16mm. Sound and silent.) US
Director: H.P. Carver
Actors: Chauncey Yellow Robe (Lakota) as Chief Chetoga, Buffalo Child Long Lance as Baluk and Molly Spotted Elk (Penobscot) as Neewa

A classic film shot with a Native American cast on location in Ojibwe country near Lake Temagami in Ontario. The Silent Enemy reconstructs Anishnabe life in an earlier time, when the "silent enemy," the danger of starvation, loomed in late winter.

For more information

• Bunny McBride: Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris, (University of Oklahoma Press, 1995)

Image credit: Still from The Silent Enemy