Miracle in the Wilderness is a 1991 American adventure film directed by Kevin James Dobson and written by Michael Michaelian and Jim Byrnes.
The film stars Kris Kristofferson, Kim Cattrall, John Dennis Johnston, Rino Thunder, David Oliver and Sheldon Peters Wolfchild.
A recently reformed but violent and rough mountain man, Jericho Adams, along with his devout Christian wife Dora and their infant boy child, are preparing to celebrate a humble frontier Christmas.
After coming upon a miracle of a fearlessly tranquil family of deer, which the Indians view as "strong medicine," and it being Christmas Eve, Dora and Jericho relate a loosely adapted story of the Nativity of Jesus to the Blackfoot band, but employ plains Indian cultural motifs and characters.
Although at first skeptical, in the end, Chief Many Horses is so moved and impressed with the Christmas Story, he relents in his original plans for revenge and restitution.