Nate and the Colonel

Nate and the Colonel (Film, 2003)

Nate and the Colonel is western genre film that was written/directed and edited by filmmaker Paul Winters (it stars Winters as Colonel Ben Loftin and Ricco Ross as Nate). It is the first feature film to use the Native American Ojibwa language (for the first half of the film, the Native actors only speak in the Ojibwa language with english sub-titles). The film also stars Mark S. Brien and Carlos Milano.

Plot Outline: It is 1865, the Civil War is just over. Former slave Nate Washington and his boyhood friend, Confederate Colonel Ben Loftin head West together from a South in ruins. On the Western Plains, they encounter a band of Chippewa Indians who will forever change their lives. Along the way, they must deal with a renegade band of Union Cavalry with a score to settle