A co-production of Pacific Islanders in Communications and Vision Maker Media. Special features: Guardians of Ramu River, Tar sands map rap with Mike Mercredi and Lionel Lepine, Winona La Duke on colonization, Oren Lyons on Profit and loss. Narrated by Graham Greene, interviewees: Winona LaDuke, Melchior Ware, John Chitoa, Rosa Koian, Peter Kepma, Sir Michael Somare, Clayton Thomas-Muller, Mike Mercredi, Don Thompson, David Schindler, Ida Stepanowich and others.
Summary:
"From Papua New Guinea rainforests to Canada's tar sands, Profit and Loss exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, 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's third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption"-- http://standingonsacredground.org/learn-more/synopses (as viewed on April 11, 2014)
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