Faced with terminal lung cancer, 80-year-old Sallie Smith rallies an unlikely team of fellow Alabama grandmas to fi ght for the removal of a toxic coal ash pit that threatens the waters of their beloved Mobile Bay.

In Taloyoak, Nunavut, Elder David Nanook teaches local youth to repair a traditional stone fish weir, using the practice to pass down Inuktitut language, ancestral ceremony, and a renewed relationship with the Arctic land and waters.