Standing on Sacred Ground

Standing on Sacred Ground

2014
📺 1 Season
🎬 4 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
Documentary
Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around the world, native communities share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land.

Where to Watch (US)

Buy

Amazon Video

Seasons

Season 1
2014 • 4 Episodes
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 nothern 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.

Cast

Graham Greene
Graham Greene
Narrator (voice)
Satish Kumar
Satish Kumar
Self
Winona LaDuke
Winona LaDuke
Self
Q'orianka Kilcher
Q'orianka Kilcher

Crew

Director
Christopher 'Toby' McLeod
Producer
Christopher 'Toby' McLeod

Network

Prime Video

Keywords

indigenousland rights