Title:
Standing on Sacred Ground. Pilgrims and Tourists / Bullfrog Films presents a Sacred Land Film Project ; produced and directed by Christopher McLeod ; written and co-produced by Jessica Abbe ; a co-production of Pacific Islanders in Communications, Vision Maker Media and Sacred Land Film Project.
ISBN:
9781937772949
Publication Information:
Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"Licensed for home use only."
Special features: series trailer ; Satish Kumar: what is a sacred place ; Oren Lyons: we are part of the earth ; Winona La Duke on redemption ; Barry Lopez: a way out of our predicament ; Nogon Shumarov: throat singing.
DVD, NTSC.
Contents:
From ownership to relationship -- Altai is alive -- Pilgrimage to Uch Enmek -- Gazprom's pipeline -- Shamans, scientists and Stalin -- Spiritual tourism -- The Ukok princess -- Awaken Altai! -- From Russia to California -- The sacred spring -- The Winnemem and Shasta Dam -- We dance for the land -- Altaians visit the Winnemem -- War dance -- Mapping sacred sites -- Puberty ceremony -- One heart, one mind -- Credits.
Individual stories. Altai, Russia (27 min.) -- California, U.S.A. (33 min.).
Summary:
"Around the world, Indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. 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 northern 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"--Http://standingonsacredground.org/learn-more/synopses (as viewed on April 11, 2014).
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Language Note:
In English and Russian with English subtitles.
Performer:
Narrated by Graham Greene ; storyteller, Tantoo Cardinal ; interviewees: Danil Mamyev, Mikhail Shishin, Maria Amanchina, Satish Kumar, Winona LaDuke, Caleen Sisk and others.
Production Credits:
Edited by Quinn Costello ; directors of photography, Will Parrinello, Andrew Black ; composer, Jon Herbst.
OCLC Number:
ocn876402803
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
