Poet, author, lecturer and actor THOMAS FRANCIS LABLANC will travel to research and visualize a novel, Quiet Turtle, and an accompanying stage production, Leading Eagle, both based on 125 years of Dakota experience. The story begins in Minnesota and moves to the Black Hills, down to the Grand Canyon, up to the Rocky Mountains and into Canada. To move forward with the writing project, LaBlanc will retrace the journeys of his ancestors.