Hawk Eye

Two adolescent boys of a tribal community learn and apply traditional hunting and survival skills as they hunt, paddle canoes, and travel across prairie and river country. Their journey encounters rival jealousy, encounters with wild animals, dangerous rapids, a beaver dam, capture and rescue, and a wounding that requires care. Through episodes of skillful shooting, tracking, and counsel from elders, the boys undergo tests of courage and resourcefulness, illustrating rites of passage, communal teachings, and a sustained reverence for landscape and animal life before returning to trade and home.