Everett Soop is a Blackfoot political cartoonist and humorist who lives on the Blood Indian Reserve in southern Alberta. Soop's survival tools include an outrageous sense of humor, artistic gifts and the spiritual values taught to him by his grandparents. Afflicted by muscular dystrophy, he has nevertheless produced a remarkable body of published work, and is the only Aboriginal artist represented in the permanent collection of the National Archives of Canada's Museum of Caricatures. Despite these achievements, Soop remains ostracized in his community, partly because of his outspokenness. His story communicates a universal message in raising questions about how any human community treats individuals with disabilities and about our tendency to marginalize the truth-tellers. "Soop on Wheels" is part of the First Peoples' TV series made possible by DreamCatchers, a non-profit organization working to bring Native films to a wider audience.

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