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In 1980, the Lakota were presented with cash for their stolen land in the Black Hills. They refused to settle for the agreement and continue to fight today.
By Concepción de León
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Three years after the discovery of gold nuggets on Lakota lands in 1874, the Black Hills Act stripped the tribe of the maximum of the domains of Dakota and northwestern Nebraska that had been ceded to it through a treaty decades earlier, making way for masses of gold prospectors. . Since then, the other Lakota have been fighting to reclaim this land, a situation trapped 22 recorded in a new documentary, “Lakota Nation v. Lakota Nation. “United States”.
This pop-up film, directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, interweaves interviews with Lakota activists and veterans with striking photographs of the Black Hills and their wildlife, old documents and reportage, excerpts from old films, and other archival footage of ordinary effect, demonstrating not only the physical and cultural violence inflicted on the Lakota, but also the physical and cultural violence inflicted on the Lakota, but also but also its deep connection to the Black Hills, the domain where Mount Rushmore was erected (one activist, Krystal Two Bulls, described the monument as “the supreme sanctuary of white supremacy. “”) The film covers well-known cases of erasure and oppression, such as colonization and Standing Rock, but also lesser-known injustices, such as the fate of the Dakota 38, in which dozens of men were executed by the U. S. military. He joined the U. S. government in 1862 for emerging opponents of the government.
In 1980, the Lakota case was heard in the U. S. Supreme Court. The U. S. Treasury granted them payment for the lost land. But the other Lakota refused to settle for cash and continue to do so, even though the price of the colony is higher. more than a billion dollars today. What they fight for is the land itself. Phyllis Young, one of the elderly Lakota women interviewed in the film, calls her her Mecca. .
Lakota Nation v. Lakota Nation United States PG-13 rating for violent imagery, thematic elements, and foul language. Operating time: 2 hours. In cinemas.
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