“Wind River,” December 9, 2017, DVD, home. The harsh winter environment shares the leading actor role in this story of assault and (in)justice on Native American reservations Based on actual incidents, this looks at a story that is systematically ignored throughout America, the abuse and disappearance of Native American women. Jeremy Renner stars as an non-Native American tracker, a hunter of predators (coyotes, mountain lions, etc) for the Fish and Wildlife Department, who had been married to an Arapaho woman, drawn into the horrific rape/murder of the daughter of a good friend. In so doing, he is able to confront his own loss and failure, one that led to his daughter’s death years before. A young girl is killed and he moves to assist the FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) called into this alien environment. Her learning curve reminded me of my daughter’s experience over a month of working on the Cheyanne River Sioux reservation in South Dakota where she observed similar cultural problems and strengths. Along with overstretched reservation lawmen, they hunt the perpetrators through blizzards and lethal cold, on plains, forests, and mountains. This is a rough film and a very rough environment. It shows loving families and painful despair on the reservations. Native leaders around the country have praised the film’s forthrightness on these issues. Well-acted, thoughtful, and painful