In the Mississippi River Delta, lndigenous territories are disappearing at one of the fastest rates on earth, due to extractive practices and a changing climate. Okla Hina Ikhish Holo (People of the Sacred Medicine Trail) is a network of femme/non-binary Indigenous gardeners, working urgently to develop the continuation of sacred, long-standing cultural practices connected to food, medicine, and land. FEATURED IN: CURRENTS OF HOPE 2This session includes: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha &amp; the Gulf South (5), Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (6), SHABA (12), Mapping Survival (30), Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect the Greater Chaco (47)

Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha & the Gulf South

A network of Indigenous women and non-binary farmers establish food security and sovereignty in the Mississippi Delta.

Mission Creek is one of the Okanagan Valley’s most important waterways, supplying a quarter of all inflow waters to Okanagan Lake. Running through Kelowna, BC, Canada, the Creek holds significant ecological, historical, and cultural value beyond just Kelowna, affecting upstream and downstream watersheds and communities across the Central Okanagan. This film highlights the restoration efforts being undertaken by the Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (MCRI), to return the creek to its natural flow; restore essential habitat for wildlife; and provide an active corridor and essential greenspace for residents and visitors each day. FEATURED IN: CURRENTS OF HOPE 2This session includes: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha &amp; the Gulf South (5), Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (6), SHABA (12), Mapping Survival (30), Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect the Greater Chaco (47)

Mission Creek Restorative Initiative

A Canadian town works to restore and preserve a local river.

In the mountains of northern Kenya, a Samburu community is doing something that has never been done before, building a sanctuary for orphaned elephants to rehabilitate them back to the wild.The project is not just changing attitudes about elephants, it is changing attitudes about women too; the secret to the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary's success is the special bond between a group of women keepers and one special elephant named Shaba. FEATURED IN: CURRENTS OF HOPE 2This session includes: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha &amp; the Gulf South (5), Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (6), SHABA (12), Mapping Survival (30), Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect the Greater Chaco (47) FEATURED IN: SCHOOL PROGRAM&nbsp;K-4This session includes: Finding Salmon (2), Life in the Slow Lane (3), El Mago Georges (4), Shaba (12), Sea Creatures Strike Back (3), Cracked (5), Friendship Garden (5), The Magical Forest and the Things (4)

Shaba

After losing her mother to poachers, an unruly elephant named Shaba is rescued to the mountains of northern Kenya to be rehabilitated back to the wild. The women keepers of Reteti Sanctuary have a maternal solution to soften Shaba's heart.

Against the wishes of tribal elders, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim’s mother made enormous sacrifices to send her daughters to school in the capital city of N’Djamena. As she grew older, she observed Lake Chad, once one of the largest lakes in Africa, shrinking significantly and threatening the livelihoods and survival of more than 30 million residents. Moved by the suffering experienced by her people she leveraged her education to become an environmental activist and geographer and is helping solve a long standing conflict in the area. FEATURED IN: CURRENTS OF HOPE 2This session includes: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha &amp; the Gulf South (5), Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (6), SHABA (12), Mapping Survival (30), Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect the Greater Chaco (47)

Mapping Survival

How a nomad in Chad became a leader in the fight against climate-change and a voice for Indigenous people worldwide.

90% of the available lands in the Greater Chaco have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Over the course of three years, Navajo and Pueblo leadership including Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), Julia Bernal (Sandia Pueblo), and Navajo Nation Council Delegate and co-director Daniel Tso have been intimately collaborating to tell their stories in this film as they struggle to protect what little remains of this sacred landscape, including the World Heritage Site Chaco National Historical Park in the SW United States. FEATURED IN: CURRENTS OF HOPE 2This session includes: Growing Indigenous Food Sovereignty: Okla Hina Ikhish Holo Network in Bvlbancha &amp; the Gulf South (5), Mission Creek Restoration Initiative (6), SHABA (12), Mapping Survival (30), Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect the Greater Chaco (47)

Our Story - The Indigenous Led Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

Diné and Pueblo people directly impacted by oil and gas extraction in the Greater Chaco region have been organizing for generations to protect the wellbeing of their communities, sacred sites, and the integrity of the landscape. OUR STORY emerges from a long-standing collaboration between local Dine’ leaders in the Greater Chaco region, Pueblo organizers, and the Our Story film crew.

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