Sienna BelangerLee a 22 year old Indigenous woman who’s story is important because many Indigenous people feel they must leave the reserve to have opportunities for a good future.

This is a half hour documentary about a series of life changing events discribed by Mariel Belanger and Sienna BelangerLee. Sienna finds a deeper meaning to her life with wild horses when a raging forest fire threatens not just her home, but her new equine family. Reconnecting to family, culture and land, in this comingofage story, horses heal and women come together. Sienna realizes to stay is to be a steward to the land, horses and ourselves as responsibility to place.

sn̓kłca̓ʔsqáx̌aʔ tkłmílxʷ – Horse Woman is produced with the support from TELUS STORYHIVE, and will be available for free on TELUS Optik TV in 2024

A short documentary by Directors Mariel Belanger and Sienna BelangerLee.

edited by Joseph Pinheiro/Phreeagent Creative