Black Cloud

A Native American boxer faces personal challenges as he comes to terms with his heritage while fighing for a spot on the U.S. Olympic boxing team...

Black Cloud, a young Navajo man, must take a journey of personal growth to prepare himself for a chance at boxing in the Olympics. When Eddie returns to town with the rodeo and wants to rekindle his relationship with Black Cloud's girlfriend, Sammi, Black Cloud confronts him and runs into trouble with the sheriff after beating up Eddie who is Sammi's ex-boyfriend and the father of her child, as well as the Sheriff's nephew.

After seeing Black Cloud in a boxing match, an Olympic Scout named Norm Olsen (Peter Greene) offers him a tryout for the U.S. Olympic team. Initially Black Cloud rejects the offer believing that it would be just to 'fight for the White Man'. In trying to apply for Indian Housing he and Sammi find out that his great-grandfather was from Germany; believing he is cursed by his diluted bloodline Black Cloud has a falling out with Sammi. He goes to see his Grandfather who takes him into the canyons and tells him about his family and the German man who helped his great-grandmother after she was raped by a several white men and went by the name White Wolf. Realizing that his bloodline is pure he decides to come back to Sammi and proposes to her. He gets back into training for the Golden Gloves tournament coming up and decides to take up the scout's offer if he wins.

The day before the tournament his best friend is seriously injured in a fight with Eddie and a set of other cowboys which the Sheriff refuses to arrest. On the day of the tournament, Black Cloud goes through it to the finals where he meets Rocket Ray Tracy, the number one ranked Light Heavyweight fighter who is hoping on going pro after the tournament.

Not to be confused with the 1950s Science Fiction novel by Fred Hoyle, The Black Cloud.


 * Asshole Victim: Eddie. Just Eddie.
 * Awesome McCoolname: The eponymous Black Cloud.
 * Badass: Black Cloud
 * Badass Long Hair
 * Beware the Silly Ones: Jimmy is portrayed as being happy-go-lucky, good natured, and out and out fun to be a round. When Eddie's crew gangs up on Black Cloud in the bathroom though, Jimmy does not hesitate to kick their asses.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Jimmy coming to Cloud's aid.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: At some point Jimmy breaks a pool cue on the back of one of the guys Eddie recruited to beat up Black Cloud.
 * Determinator: Black Cloud in the the fight with Rocket Ray Tracey.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: Sheriff Cliff Powers. He definetely isn't evil but has something of a moral compass going on. He could have arrested Black Cloud for drinking and driving on the way back to the reservation but chose not to.
 * Game Face: Complete with a simulated and surprisingly well executed animal roar.
 * Hot Mom: Sammi
 * Lightning Bruiser: Rocket Ray Tracy
 * Pet the Dog: Sheriff Cliff Powers not arresting or harming Black Cloud while he is a lone and drunk.
 * Reasonable Authority Figure: Dusty Rocket Ray Tracy's trainer.
 * Bud too for that matter.
 * Retired Badass: Bud
 * Surprise Pregnancy: Implied. Apparently the last time Sammi and Eddie went out for a drink she had Tyler.