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From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water and health to mining and oil industries.
At the Sacred Land Film Project, we realize that the challenges facing the people in Standing on Sacred Ground might leave you with a sense of hopelessness. We do not feel hopeless. The people working on these and related issues are making progress and, through groups like Idle No More, are setting an inspiring example for all of us.
In 1990, he produced Voices of the Land as a 20-minute preview of Standing on Sacred Ground. In 1997, he completed A Thousand Years of Ceremony , a 40-minute profile of Winnemem Wintu healer Florence Jones and her efforts to protect Mount Shasta as a sacred site for the Wintu—a film made specifically as an archival film for the use of the Wintu community.
Standing On Sacred Ground. 2,271 likes. Four-part documentary series in which native people share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land.
Profit and Loss – Standing on Sacred Ground (2013) Indigenous communities around the world and in the U.S. resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and restore the environment. Tamoxifen has also been linked to a high risk of stroke, blood clots, heart attacks, breast ...
Papua New Guinea. Village leaders reach into their past to revive a canoe-launching ceremony while embracing a modern litigation strategy to stop a nickel mine that has forced longtime owners from their land. They fear that runoff from the ongoing construction of the massive Chinese government-owned mine will poison their water, fish and ...
March 1, 2014. 57min. 13+. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned mine has violently relocated villagers, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world ...
