My people will sleep for one hundred years, but when they awake, it will be the artists who give them their spirit back.-Louis Riel The Willows, Saskatchewan: Frank, a young Mtis lawyer, introduces hisfianc to the idyllic life of his community one July long weekend.That weekend his law practice and his personal life are threatenedwhen the provincial game wardens accuse him of poaching a deer.Stretching Hide heads to the country to present a portrait of a community not often seen on Canadian stages or written into the official histories of Canada-the Mtis Nation.Winner of the Canadian National Playwriting Competition