Kili Radio, the "Voice of the Lakota Nation," is broadcast out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. There, people converge to speak to the community about daily concerns and in doing so, strengthen their sense of identity.

Daily existence on America's poorest reservation is hard. We meet people like Roxanne Two Bulls, who’s trying to start over again on the land of her ancestors after a difficult life nearly destroyed by alcoholism. The film also introduces Bruce, the white lawyer who for 30 years has been trying to free an American Indian advocate who’s been fighting for equal rights for his people.

Everything comes together at Kili Radio. Instead of sending smoke signals the radio station transmits its own signals across a vast and magnificent landscape with a delightful combination of humor and melancholy. We hear native hip hop and complaints about broken windshields. The radio broadcast has helped restore community pride, as listeners now feel their Lakota identity is accepted.

As the young DJ Derrick Janis puts it, "We once were warriors, I like to think about that. Back in those days I’d be a warrior on a horse. But today, I’m a DJ on a hill." No More Smoke Signals[/italic] is film about the role of media and an up-close look at present day life on the reservation.

"A fine piece of filmmaking. The message it conveys—that indigenous people survive, that they struggle against great obstacles, that they are modern in every important sense of the term including using modern technology(radio, websites,television and every other medium) to preserve and promote themselves—is a critical one for scholars, students, and the general public to hear."
‒Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database

Swiss Film Prize for Best Documentary, 2009
Film and Video Center, National Museum of the American Indian, NY, 2009
Brooklyn International Film Festival, 2009