Indigenous Film Series: Short Films

Join us for a screening of three short films: Tiger (2025), Meet Me at the Creek (2024) and Restoring Néške'emane (2021) at the Rivoli Theater! The 35 minute screening will be followed by a 20 minute discussion exploring Indigenous experiences through film and dialogue!

Doors open at 4:30pm

Film starts at 5:00pm

There is limited seating for this film event. Please register for a FREE ticket here: https://tickets.rivoli.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?evtinfo=998504~e3c66030-62d8-4282-9886-16d09f1887f2&epguid=ede1d7b6-59fe-438b-acc4-d87fc3880065&mdy=5/14/2026&

Tiger (2025)
Log Line:
“Tiger” highlights an Indigenous award-winning, internationally acclaimed artist and elder, Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger t-shirt company.
Synopsis: Dana Tiger was just five years old when her father, legendary Muscogee Creek artist Jerome Tiger, passed away. She turned to his art as a way to know him, the richness of her culture, and the bounty of her family’s artistic tradition. In memory of Jerome's art and to support their family, Dana’s mother and uncle started a booming t-shirt printing business in the 1980s. Then, tragedy struck their family once more. Dana’s younger brother, Chris Tiger, was relentlessly murdered and their business was brought to a halt. Dana and her family have been working for nearly 30 years to revitalize the iconic Tiger t-shirt company, through immense grief and suffering from
Parkinson’s. Now, everybody wants their hands on a Tiger T-shirt.

Meet Me at the Creek (2024)
Log Line:
In order to revitalize cultural traditions, a Cherokee elder fights to restore the “irreversibly damaged” Tar Creek.
Synopsis:
Cherokee elders, like Rebecca Jim, believe that what happens to the water happens to us. Without it, we cannot move culture forward and we cannot exist here. Meet Me at the Creek tells a story of interconnectedness and Cherokee values through the lifelong fight of Rebecca Jim, a Cherokee Nation citizen and Waterkeeper Warrior, as she leads the effort to restore Tar Creek located in Miami, Oklahoma. U.S. government officials have designated Tar Creek as “irreversibly damaged,” but Rebecca refuses to accept that.

Restoring Néške'emane (2021)
Log Line:
A documentary centered on environmentalist Damon Dunbar and his life’s work to remediate the toxic landscape of a Cheyenne and Arapaho Indian boarding school shut down in the early 1980s by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
Synopsis:
Since the 19th century, Native American children were sent to boarding schools designed to “Kill the Indian… Save the Man”, destroying Tribal languages, cultural values, practices, and traditions through assimilation. In Oklahoma, generations of Native Americans were educated through the Concho Indian School from 1871 to 1984. The abandoned school buildings have remained for 40 years, riddled with toxins that have leached into the community. Restoring Néške'ema¯ne follows environmentalist Damon Dunbar who has a dream of restoring the land, preserving tribal history, and honoring the attendees of the Concho Indian School in order to speak truth to history.

This event is in partnership between the Ho-Chunk Nation Youth Services-La Crosse, UW Extension La Crosse County, Rivoli Theatre, Western Technical College, Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, and the La Crosse Public Library.