A co-production of Pacific Islanders in Communications and Vision Maker Media. Special features: series trailer, Satish Kumar: what is a sacred place, Oren Lyons: we are part of the earth, Winona La Duke on redemption, Barry Lopez: a way out of our predicament, Nogon Shumarov throat singers. Narrated by Graham Greene, storyteller, Tantoo Cardinal, interviewees: Danil Mamyev, Mikhail Shishin, Maria Amanchina, Satish Kumar, Winona LaDuke, Caleen Sisk and others.
Summary:
"Around the world, indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks to rein in tourism and resist a gas pipeline that would cut through a World Heritage Site. In northern California, Winnemem Wintu girls grind herbs on a sacred medicine rock, as elders protest U.S. government plans to enlarge one of the West's biggest dams and forever submerge this touchstone of a tribe"-- http://standingonsacredground.org/learn-more/synopses (as viewed on April 11, 2014)
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