Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the promise of the Land Back movement, in this lyrical testament to resilience of a nation.
Writing
Layli Long Soldier's poetry fractures and rebuilds the narrative.
Direction
Tomaselli and Short Bull refuse easy documentary comfort.
Cinematography
Black Hills as character, witness, and wound.
Director
Laura Tomaselli
Layli Long Soldier
Self - Oglala Lakota
Nick Estes
Self - Sicangu Lakota
Mary Kathryn Nagle
Self - Cherokee Nation
Milo Yellow Hair
Self - Oglala Lakota
Krystal Two Bulls
Self - Northern Cheyenne & Oglala Lakota
Nick Tilsen
Self - Oglala Lakota
Ted Koppel
Self (archive footage)
Donald Trump
Self (archive footage)
Kristi Noem
Self (archive footage)
Russell Means
Self (archive footage)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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