The Creation Story

The story of creation and our relationship with the universe, as told by Jasper Young Bear. In the summer of 2022, Jasper Young Bear, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation held a unique ceremonial offering inside a medicine lodge in North Dakota. Across three days, he tells his people's Creation Story, and in the process, shares his most profound teachings in unprecedented detail. Long Synopsis In the summer of 2022, Jasper Young Bear, a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, invited three friends from outside of his community to a unique ceremonial offering that took place in a medicine lodge on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota. Across three days, Jasper tells his people's Creation Story and in the process shares his most sacred teachings in unprecedented detail. The Creation Story Jasper tells is the story of the universe and is as old as time immemorial itself. Previously preserved and passed down from generation to generation in an oral tradition that he was born into, Jasper's reasons for committing it to film for the first time in history soon become apparent, and are as urgent and pertinent as the story itself. The result is a film like no other. Primarily a kind of ethnographic record that will preserve this story for the ages, it has now been thoughtfully married to a cinematic experience, to create a new kind of genre — a medicine film.