SACRED WATER AND RED POWER: STANDING ROCK 1&2 / SACRED WATER AND RED POWER: STANDING ROCK PARTS 1&2

The people of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation of North and South Dakota are fighting to stop a pipeline from being built on their ancestral homeland. The Dakota Access Pipeline would snake its way across four states, bisecting sacred Indigenous sites and burial grounds along the route. The tribe fears that a leak could contaminate the Missouri River and spell disaster for the Great Sioux Nation. But water protectors are standing up in unprecedented numbers to preserve their way of life for future generations and to defend their sacred water.
Red Power delves into the evolution of the Red Power Movement and tracks past battles and re-writes history using today’s unprecedented occupation at Standing Rock. A new indigenous generation, an expression of modernity grown up on tales of occupation— from Wounded Knee to Alcatraz— arise in protest against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, a high-environmental impact pipeline designed to cut the United States from north to south.