Vice examines Dakota pipeline
If ever there were a time for Viceland’s new series it’s now. Staunchly focused on indigenous populations and hosted by Sarain Carson Fox, it chronicles their fight against colonization around the world. Specifically, in Friday’s new episode, it deals with the Dakota Access Pipeline protests in the U.S.
Flashback to August 2016 — before the police barricades and arrests. Cameras capture 200 native American tribes opposing the construction of an oil pipeline that would have the same environmental impact as 21.4 million cars, and that would threaten the safe water supply along the 1,170-mile route.
It’s the largest mass gathering of native and allies in more than a century, and the jumping-off point for an episode that examines the issue from multiple perspectives.
We hear about the Run for Your Life relay organized by native youth, the burial grounds and sacred sites at risk, the logistics of buying daily supplies for those camped at the site and, for historical context, see clips of residential schools and Hunkpapa Lakota holy man Sitting Bull.
At one point, a group of women talk about the effect of oil workers in their community. They say that while there are more jobs and money, native women are at risk of being stolen, raped, killed or sold.
Scenes at an oil and gas conference in Bismark, N.D., where then-U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump is speaking, show racial tensions bubbling between natives and Trump supporters.
Three episodes of recently premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, as part of the event’s theme of climate change and environmental preservation.
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