Not so long ago (a mere 150 years or so), the United States government agreed to recognize and respect Shoshone territory in exchange for certain development rights such as the building of railroads and installation of telegraph lines. This is the story of Carrie and Mary Dann, Western Shoshone sisters whose fight to eke out an existence from the land through husbandry has been increasingly disturbed and destroyed by the Bureau of Land Management – the very agency officially designated to protect Shoshone rights. The conflict of interest? Massive-scale industrial strip mining for gold with cyanide that destroys and poisons Mother Earth. Narrated by Mary Steenburgen.

(2007, 56 min.) – D.B.