**A gripping, fast-paced account of the life of the indigenous man who
founded and led the Indian Posse, one of the most dangerous gangs in
North America, into violence, power, and infamy.
**
In 2008, Daniel Richard Wolfe was awaiting trial on two counts of
first-degree murder at the Regina Correctional Centre. This wasn't his
first time in jail; from his teenage years his life had been marked by
stints in and out of prison - with Danny sometimes finding his own way
out. This time around, he was orchestrating his boldest move yet: a
carefully plotted escape that would send the RCMP on a nationwide
manhunt, launching Danny Wolfe to headline-topping notoriety.
The Ballad of Danny Wolfe cinematically traces the storied years of
Danny Wolfe's life, from his birth in Regina to his relationship with
his mother, Susan Creeley, a First Nations woman who was forever marked
by her experience in the residential school system; to his first brush
with the law at the age of four and then his subsequent arrests; to the
creation of the Indian Posse, the street gang he founded with a handful
of equally disenfranchised indigenous friends; to the dissonance Danny
felt between the traditional world he was born into and the criminal one
that became his life; to the dramatic tensions over power and loyalty
unfolding in the gang world and within the Posse itself.
Drawing on unprecedented access to the Wolfe family and first-hand
accounts from the people closest to the gang leader, Joe Friesen's
portrait of Danny Wolfe is at once riveting and timely, nuanced and
provocative.
