Standing on sacred ground
(DVD, Online Content) 

"A Sacred Land Film Project"--at head of title.

Teacher's guide available as .PDF from publisher and producer websites.

Originally released as motion pictures in 2013.

Special features for v. 2 Profit and Loss: Guardians of Ramu River ; Tar sands map rap with Mike Mercredi and Lionel Lepine ; Winona LaDuke on colonization ; Oren Lyons on Profit and loss.

Special features: for v. 3 Fire and Ice: Special features: Indigenous reflections on Christanity ; Satish Kumar on global warming ; Oren Lyons on the Wizard of Oz ; The backstory: filming the riot in Dorbo Meadow.

Special features: for v. 4. Islands of Sanctuary: Extended Kūkākūkā ("Talk story") beach scene ; deleted scene: The legacy of Kahoʻolawe protecting the ancestors at Honokahua ; Winona LaDuke's Kahoʻolawe story ; Satish Kumar on the origins of the problem ; Oren Lyons on rights and responsibilities ; Barry Lopez on storytelling ; What good is an apology?

Volume 1: edited by Quinn Costello ; directors of photography, Will Parrinello and Andrew Black ; composer, Jon Herbst.

Volume 2: edited by Marta Wohl ; director of photography, Andrew Black ; composer, Jon Herbst

Volume 3: edited by Marta Wohl ; directors of photography, Andrew Black, Christopher McLeod, Vicente Franco ; composer, Tom Disher.

Volume 4: edited by Quinn Costello ; director of photography, Will Parrinello, Andrew Black ; composer, Stefan Smith, Charles Johnson, Kawika Kahiapo.

Volume 1: Narrated by Graham Greene ; storyteller, Tantoo Cardinal ; interviewees: Danil Mamyev, Mikhail Shishin, Maria Amanchina, Satish Kumar, Winona LaDuke, Caleen Sisk and others.

Volume 2: 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.

Volume 3: Narrated by Graham Greene ; storyteller, Q'Orianka Kilcher ; interviewees: Satish Kumar, Winona LaDuke, Halak'a Shagire, Kefale Daba, Terenke Sark'a, Fredy Flores Machacca, Benito Quispe, Milton Gamarra, Maria Schurrah and others.

Volume 4: Narrated by Graham Greene ; storytellers, Rhoda Roberts, Luana Busby-Neff ; interviewees: Patrick Dodson, Marcia Langton, Emmett Aluli, Davianna McGregor, Winona LaDuke, Oren Lyons, Satish Kumar, Barry Lopez and others.

Documents how indigenous peoples stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment. Volume 1: Pilgrims and tourists: "Around the world, indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. In the Russian republic of Altai, 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 rock, as elders protest government plans to enlarge one of the West's biggest dams and forever submerge this touchstone of a tribe." Volume 2: Profit and loss: 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, Canada, First nations people are facing rare cancers as their hunting grounds are stripmined. Volume 3: Fire and ice: "From Ethiopia to Peru, indigenous customs protect biodiversity on sacred lands under pressure from religious conflicts and climate change. In the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia, scientists confirm the benefits of traditional stewardship/indigenous customs that protect biodiversity, even as elders witness the decline of spiritual practices that have long protected trees, meadows and mountains. Tensions with evangelical Christians over a sacred meadow erupt into a riot. In the Peruvian Andes, the Q'eros, on a pilgrimage to a revered glacier, are driven from their ritual site by intolerant Catholics. Q'eros potato farmers face a more ominous foe: global warming is melting glaciers, their water source. Andes farmers, scientists and visiting Ethiopians struggle to adapt indigenous agriculture to the changing climate." Volume 4: Islands of sanctuary: "Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australia's Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the temptation and destructive effects of a mining boom. In Hawaii, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kahoolawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range." http://standingonsacredground.org/learn-more/synopses

DVD, NTSC; widescreen; Dolby digital 2.0.

Volume 1 in English and Russian with English subtitles; volumes 2-4 in English and native languages with English subtitles; optional English SDH subtitles.