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 firsthand
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.
