In this 3-film Standing on Sacred Ground series, indigenous people around the world stand up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists (Film 1 of 3): 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. Click on the boxes to the right for Films 2 and 3 --&gt;

Standing on Sacred Ground: Pilgrims and Tourists

In the Altai Republic of Russia and in Northern California, indigenous shamans resist massive government projects that threaten nature and culture.

From New Guinean rainforests to Canada's tar sands, PROFIT AND LOSS (Film 2 of 3) exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese-government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world's third-largest oil reserve. Indigenous people tell their own stories-and confront us with the ethical consequences of our culture of consumption.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Profit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands Of Sanctuary (Film 3 of 3) follows Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians as they resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australia's Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom. In Hawai`i, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kaho`olawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range.

Standing on Sacred Ground: Islands of Sanctuary

Aboriginal Australians and Native Hawaiians reclaim land from the government and the military, and resist the erosion of culture and environment.

Standing on Sacred Ground (3-Film Series)

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