When Sweetwater wrote her Native American lesbian novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler many years ago, she had in mind animated film. Now, it has become reality. The finished film will look and be the quality of Disney's recent animated 3-D Film, "Frozen." Click here 

Sweetwater will be in her studio mid-summer 2014 throughout the fall scripting the film version of her Native American lesbian novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler. 

The Return of Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Author uses Novel to Revive Cult Genre of Mid 20th Century

Sage Sweetwater revives lesbian pulp fiction in her novel The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler. The novel jaunts through time to tell the stories of nontraditional women and their struggle to live their lives among the warm embrace of Mother Nature.

Set deep in the forest of Lac du Flambeau, Wis., the novel is told through the spirit of the loon with a hint of lesbian fairytale. In the woods of this beautiful land, sprites and magical creatures frolic and torment while the loons dance and transform on the pristine waters of the lakes and rivers. The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler is a woman raised with a deep respect for nature and the skills to survive on the fringes of modern society. She slips her canoe into the water, floats supplies up and down the river and taps maple trees for their syrup. Her lesbian counterpart Fringe Water Many Bosom, lives in the 1800s; a true pioneer woman. Her story mirrors Buckskin's and exhibits what life may have been like for her.

Metaphorically, (she reminds) us of a loon's wing which has not 'properly' aligned, society waiting for her to molt her feathers hoping her new ones will come in 'straight.'

Sage Sweetwater gives storyline to a hard-hitting impact of the Dog Salmon of the Yukon in this novel. The preservation of the Yukon's Dog Salmon depends greatly on the banishing of the hydro-electric dams near these salmon inlets and outlets. The storyline (think film) has the Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler oaring down the Yukon river to the salmon spawning beds. Something is blocking the dam and the only way to recover the dog salmon is to breech the dams, where huge chunks of concrete have been thrown into the river. The oracle bones make a revelation as to another reason why the Dog Salmon have been trapped.

Sage Sweetwater reminds us through her environmentalist bent novel of the loons' well-being and also that of the salmon in storylines throughout this novel.

Sweetwater, a passionate environmentalist, sets a storyline for the loons through her character of Grayson who rehabilitates the loons from injury. Sweetwater purveys that the idea of the loons can be raised and rehabilitated by Grayson and still successfully interact with the wild flocks. The idea goes well with the Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler who represents the clean river. The Buckskin Skirt Oar Traveler's attitude is one of that treats water as a life form in need of environmentalist friends. Following the watercourse of this novel, Sweetwater's readers will engage in environmental issues all along the way through The Hamlet of Winonah and Blige, the cradle of life, feeling zonal shifts, entering into other worlds and a totality of all earthly existing things.