Film

First Daughter and the Black Snake

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

5.0

1h 44m

2017

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

Synopsis

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.

Director

Keri Pickett

Documentary

indigenousminnesotanative americanoilojibwe indianswater pollutionwoman directoractivismenvironmental activisttreaty rightspipeline

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Cast & Crew

Winona LaDuke

as Herself

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