SYNOPSIS
 Although
lost to common history, 12% of homesteaders in Wyoming,
South Dakota and Colorado between 1887 and 1908 were
single women. Dakota Sky was
inspired by the letters and diaries of these single
women who homesteaded the great plains at the turn of
the century.
On the night before the last land lottery in the American
land rush at Fort Pierre, South Dakota, five single
women are crammed into a tiny back room, awaiting their
fate: Abigail, a housemaid; Ida, a teacher; Viola, a
prostitute; Wilomene, a society girl; and Mary, the
acting Indian Agent for the lottery. In these few hours
they are joined together by the ghosts of their pasts
and their hopes for a new beginning. When the night
is over, they know their lives will never be the same.
"…Earnest and moving…imaginative
and evocative…it's hard not to be touched by the
collective grit." - The Washington Post
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