First Daughter and the Black Snake (2017)

ALL 04/15/2017 (en) Documentary 104 Min
  • Release
    04/15/2017
  • Production
  • Rotten tomato
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  • Original title
    First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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You can live without oil, but you can't live without water.

Overview

The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.

  1. Keri Pickett

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Daniel Geiger

    Editor

  4. Keri Pickett

    Producer



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First Daughter and the Black Snake (2017) 104 Min

ALL 04/15/2017 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 04/15/2017
  • Production
  • Original title First Daughter and the Black Snake
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

You can live without oil, but you can't live without water.

Overview

The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.

  1. Keri Pickett

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Daniel Geiger

    Editor

  4. Keri Pickett

    Producer