Your phone charged how many Diné children got asthma? This land fight gets personal.
Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Witness the Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the health and well-being of communities surrounded by these extractive industries.
Cinematography
Sacred landscapes that make the extraction scars hit harder.
Direction
Indigenous filmmakers centering community voices, not trauma porn.
Production
Deb Haaland before she was Secretary—prophetic as hell.
Director
Michael Ramsey
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Greater Chaco contains intact Chacoan roads and great houses dating to 850-1250 CE—some extraction leases were approved without full archaeological surveys.
The film predates Haaland's 2021 confirmation as first Native Interior Secretary; her on-camera advocacy here became policy blueprint for the 2022 Chaco Canyon 20-year drilling ban.
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