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E6: Living Desert - How Native Peoples Are Confronting Environmental Threats From Large-Scale Industry
Episode 6
Indigenous peoples have thrived in the desert for centuries. This video explores how they are confronting threats to their environment from large-scale industry.
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This documentary examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment.
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Native plants educator Barbara Drake talks about what has been lost by separating native people from their land. For years, she has worked to restore, research and promote the use of indigenous plants in California.
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The only extant video of Mabel McKay, speaking to a classroom.
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A stop motion video on the life of Mabel McKay, animated with her belongings and narrated by her son Marshall McKay.
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The Pomo people have been in California for millennia. This video explores the history of the Pomo people and the fight to keep their traditions alive.
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The concept of wilderness as unpopulated land assumes Native people are either subhuman or nonexistent. It needs to be rethought.
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Native artisans face the challenge of protecting threatened bird species while preserving their cultural traditions.
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If we see Native people as expert colleagues instead of historical figures, we all stand a greater chance of working together.
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In 2000, environmentalists blew a chance to support traditional Native practices restoring the landscape of Death Valley.
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Enter for a chance to win tickets to the reception/premiere screening/panel on Tending the Wild on January 26 at 7pm at The Autry.
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Modern society harms the desert in many ways, but the most serious threat is ignorance.
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