At age 19, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso began making a film about her home, Dinétah, and the Navajo Nation’s struggle against resource colonization at the hands of the mining, oil and gas industries. Along the way, she discovered that her people were not alone. From Dinétah to Colombia and Mexico to the Philippines, Indigenous resistance movements across the globe are combating the destructiveness of resource extraction and the environmental racism being perpetrated by multinational corporations like Glencore, Peabody and BHP. Both sweeping in scope and deeply personal, Powerlands offers a vision of hope in the face of corporate power. For local audiences, the film is a powerful reminder that assertions of Indigenous sovereignty like the Wet’suwet’en opposition to the Coastal GasLink pipeline are in solidarity with people around the world. Extraction industries are global, but so is Indigenous land stewardship and resistance. -JC