Medicine Women (Maskihkiwiskêw) is an Indigenous supernatural drama series from Sinfull Studios in Regina, Saskatchewan, created and written by Robert Slinn. After a devastating loss, a young Cree woman trains in the ways of a medicine woman and learns to fight the mythological creatures that cross from the spirit world into ours. Described by its creator as an Indigenous-themed blend of Supernatural and The Witcher, the series follows Ayani across the Americas, through different Indigenous lands, where each people faces a different creature and a different kind of darkness.
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The Story
Ayani is a child of the parklands — born into a Cree community that lives by the river, the hunt, and the old knowledge. When a buffalo hunt goes wrong and her uncle's spirit is knocked loose from his body, a seven-year-old Ayani is pulled into the work of the camp's medicine woman to call him home. What begins as one desperate night becomes her calling. Twelve years later she is a hunter of a different kind — trained, scarred, and ready to face the things that hide in the shadow of the world.
Each chapter of the series takes Ayani to new land and new people, and each people carries its own mythology — its own beast, its own wound, its own way of healing. Medicine Women is a story about grief, responsibility, and the courage it takes to face what you cannot see.
The World
The series is rooted in the Aspen Parkland of the northern plains — birchbark canoes, buffalo jumps, ceremony tipis, and the medicine lodge where the line between the living and the spirit world grows thin. Cree language and worldview run through the story: the acâhk (spirit) that can wander loose, the miyw-manitow (good spirit) carried in a well-made stone, and the maci-manitowak (bad spirits) that hate it. The first antagonist is the Witiko — an ancient, starving thing of ice and rot that hunts spirits lost between worlds.
Characters
- Ayani — the young Cree woman at the heart of the series, from a gifted child to a trained medicine woman and hunter.
- Elara — the Maskihkiwiskêw (medicine woman) who takes Ayani in and teaches her to walk between worlds.
- Kai (Nisikos) — Ayani's uncle and the hunter whose fate sets the story in motion.
- Kohkom — her grandmother, keeper of the day-to-day knowledge of the camp.
- Niba (Nimosôm) — her grandfather, who teaches her that a good stone "listens."
Episodes
Episode 1 — "Chipped Arrow"
A buffalo hunt, a tragedy, and the night a child first steps into the medicine lodge. The pilot establishes Ayani's world, the loss that shapes her, and the chipped arrowhead she will carry for the rest of her life.
Episode 2 — "The Shadow Hunt"
To bring a lost spirit home, Ayani must cross into the shadow parkland — a drained, frozen mirror of her own world — where something ancient catches the scent of a spirit out of its body. The hunt does not stay on the other side.
Made in Saskatchewan by Sinfull Studios
Medicine Women is an original production from Sinfull Studios, a film and video production studio based in Regina, Saskatchewan. The series is shot and finished in-house using the same pipeline we bring to client work — cinematography, drone and aerial, real-time environments in Unreal Engine, virtual production, and full VFX and post. Telling a prairie story on the prairies, with the crew and the country both close at hand.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is Medicine Women about?
Medicine Women (Maskihkiwiskêw) is an Indigenous supernatural drama series about a young Cree woman, Ayani, who trains as a medicine woman after a devastating loss and learns to fight Indigenous mythological creatures that cross from the spirit world. Each episode takes her to new Indigenous lands with their own myths and beasts.
Who created Medicine Women?
The series is created and written by Robert Slinn and produced by Sinfull Studios, a film and video production studio in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Where can I watch Medicine Women?
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