The Expat Indians Project

A VISION OF A NEW NATIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY BEYOND RACE AND TRIBAL RESERVATIONS

Challenging stereotypical expectations, Expat Indians takes the viewer to Europe where Native Americans serve as ambassadors for their culture and maintain their traditions far away from their home communities. The documentary focuses upon individuals who contribute to Native American cultural preservation through outreach, education and international alliance building all over Western Europe. The interviewees include an Aztec who is working to recover Montezuma’s crown, a Tsimshian from the Pacific Northwest returning lost tribal artisanal techniques, and an Apsaalooke who connects European philanthropists with engaged projects to advance tribal communities.

This documentary film about Native American identity is Caroline Running Wolf's thesis project. Caroline wishes to counter the misrepresentation that "real" Indians necessarily live on and never leave the reservation. She hopes her documentary raises awareness and aids the engaged projects of her interviewees.

Caroline Running Wolf

Producer and Visionary

Caroline Running Wolf, née Old Coyote, is the child of an Apsaalooke Vietnam veteran who fell in love with a German world traveller. As the daughter of nomadic parents she grew up between USA, Canada, and Germany.
Thanks to her genuine interest in people and their stories she taught herself eleven languages and travelled extensively. After working as a project manager in Europe for over a decade, the wish to reconnect with her paternal family led her to Bozeman where she is currently finishing her master’s degree in Native American Studies.
MSU Bozeman is also where she met her husband Michael. They got married last summer between filming interviews for her thesis project.
Together they are fighting to revitalize endangered languages and expand minds.

Michael Running Wolf

Web Administrator, Technical Support, Cinematographer and so much more

Michael Running Wolf Jr. is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Montana. His poetry has been published in Allison Hedge Coke's anthology Sing.
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He is a PhD student in Computer Science at Montana State University, Bozeman and is researching computational analysis of oral histories. Currently he is developing a Cheyenne language app as part of the Montana Indian Language Preservation Pilot Program.
More information about his work can be found at www.buffalotongue.org.