Kateri - A Beacon in the Wilderness

The incredible true story of Kateri Tekakwitha, first Native American (Indigenous) Saint and the tumultuous time in which she lived.

Orphaned, scarred, and nearly blinded by the white man's smallpox (1660), a young Mohawk girl lives quietly in her uncle's longhouse. As chief of the Turtle Clan, her uncle Cold Wind leads warriors to resist invasions of the French. Tekakwitha (meaning "she who gropes her way" due to her poor eyesight) perfects skills of embroidery and wampum-weaving. Eruptions...