Indian Camp
Overview:
Based on the short story from Ernest Hemingway. It is 1915, in a mountain forest of the American Northeast. Young Nick Adams follows his father across lake Minnewaska, to an Indian Camp. Here, Nick learns that his father will try to help an Iroquois woman deliver a difficult birth.
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