Nate and the Colonel is a 2003 Western film written, directed and edited by Paul Winters.
The film also stars Winters as Colonel Ben Loftin and Ricco Ross as Nate.
Nate and the Colonel is the first feature film to use the Native American Ojibwe language (for the first half of the film, the Native actors only speak in the Ojibwa language with English sub-titles).
Former slave Nate Washington and his boyhood friend, Confederate Colonel Ben Loftin head west together from the Southern United States which lie in ruins.
On the Western Plains, they encounter a band of Chippewa Indians who will forever change their lives.