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Around the world, indigenous people stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment. Watch them stand against industrial mega-projects, consumer culture, resource extraction, competing religions, tourists and climate change.
Standing On Sacred Ground sheds light on cases where religion and identity are under attack, where sacred places are being recklessly transformed into a focus of conflict, power struggles, desecration, and the violation of human rights.
57min. 13+. In Ethiopia's Gamo Highlands, the benefits of traditional stewardship are confirmed even as elders witness the decline of spiritual practices that have long protected their natural surroundings and religious tensions erupt into a riot.
Indigenous communities around the world resist threats to their sacred places—the original protected lands—in a growing movement to defend human rights and r...
Standing on Sacred Ground: Directed by Christopher McLeod. With Luana Busby-Neff, Tantoo Cardinal, Graham Greene, Q'orianka Kilcher. Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series.
Indigenous people resist government mega-projects, consumer culture, competing religions, resource extraction and climate change in this four-part documentary series. In the US and around the world, native communities share ecological wisdom and spiritual reverence while battling a utilitarian view of land.
Standing on Sacred Ground. The Film Series. Pilgrims and Tourists. Altai, Republic of Russia. Site Report: Golden Mountains
