Powerlands

In Powerlands, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, investigates the displacement of Indigenous people and the devastation of the environment caused by the same chemical companies that have exploited the land where she was born. She travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these women, Ivey-Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation.

A panel discussion/Q&A will follow the screening.

Keynote Speaker: Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, Director and Film Subject, Powerlands

Panelists:
Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, Director and Film Subject, Powerlands
Angel Brant, Youth Engagement Lead, Indigenous Climate Action
Andrea Crosta, Founder/Executive Director, Earth League International
Miranda Dick, Secwépemc Hereditary Matriarch and Land Defender
Cease Wyss, Ethnobotanist; Artist; Activist; Community-based Educator
Moderator: Melinda Kachina Bige, Chair, Indigenous Studies, KPU