Reservations

Reservations tells the story of US Indian Service teachers Will and Mary Parker, both of whom are banished with their son Davey to Red Mesa -- an isolated day school on the big Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona and New Mexico -- for their opposition to the pro-boarding school policies of the Hoover Administration in far-off Washington. In their exile, Will and Mary encounter Hosteen Tse, a great Navajo leader and fount of tribal lore who pleads for aid for his starving people. Will and Mary do what they can to help, which is little in a time when banks are failing and old friends are turning to thievery.