Documentary on Salish Sea underwater biodiversity and the resistance of diverse communities and First Nations to the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline, who call attention to fossil fuel industrial development projects affecting local ecology, the worsening climate crisis, and the lives of future generations.
Documentary about how the Lummi Nation led the opposition to a proposal for a coal terminal at Cherry Point near Bellingham, Washington. Cherry Point is an ancestral village site and integral to fishing treaty rights for the Lummi Nation.
Video introducing the Indigenous futurism virtual reality experience by Filmmaker Lisa Jackson and 3D Artist Mathew Borrett. Biidaaban: First Light reflects on systems of governance as it imagines a future Toronto through the languages Wendat, Kanien'kehá:ka (Mohawk) and Anishinaabe (Ojibway).
Stop-motion short film directed by Amanda Strong tells the story of Biidaaban, a young gender non-binary Anishinaabe person who joins forces with a 10,000-year-old shape-shifting Sasquatch, a Ghost Caribou, and a Ghost Wolf to revive ceremonial sap harvesting in suburban Ontario, Canada.
Documentary by Children of The Setting Sun about the Point Elliott Treaty of 1855. The film discusses what the treaty is, why it is important, and Lummi history.
Film by American Rivers about the removal of Washington’s Middle Fork Nooksack dam, which blocked fish habitat and impacted local tribes. It also mentions other dam removal projects and river restoration with support of American Rivers and local communities.
Lummi Nation Elder Chief Ts’ili’xw (Bill James) shares the story, 'We are survivors of the great flood.' He explains the origin of the “-mish” people (Samish, Dwamish, etc.), who come from the Lhaqtemish people who survived the flood on two canoes.
A documentary about the removal of two dams from the Elwha River. Follows the history of the river and the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe; the building of the dams, their impact on the environment and local communities, and their removal; and the positive cultural and ecological impacts of returning salmon.
A video about the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe’s connection to the Elwha River, and the recolonization of salmon in the river following the removal of two dams.
