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Standing on Sacred Ground, 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

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Standing on Sacred Ground

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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

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"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)

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 -- CreditsIndividual stories. Altai, Russia (27 min.) -- California, U.S.A. (33 min.)

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