Standing on Sacred Ground | show | 2014 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climat | dHNfdXQ1VWFrUGM1TU0

Transcript

00:00For Indigenous people around the world, the rights of nature and culture are intertwined.

00:14They fight for both on sacred ground.

00:19These places are where the real nature of the world glows and emanates.

00:28We believe that this spring is so sacred.

00:31We only go up there once a year to sing at the doorway of our creation story.

00:38The need of culture and the ecology of the planet are disappearing hand in hand.

00:47Geothermal waste, not our medicine plant.

00:57And so those communities that are impacted by mega pipelines that are spreading out all

01:02across this continent like the tentacles of some kind of monster hydra beast, we've got

01:08to unite those communities.

01:21We end up with a belief that it doesn't matter what we do here, because salvation is someplace

01:26else.

01:27And so let them mine, let them damn.

01:38We have a different perspective.

01:40Life comes from the land.

01:43We are only guardians.