Introduction The film begins with a young girl telling the story of losing her brother in a shoot out with law enforcement and the trauma she has to live with everyday as an introduction to historical trauma. People interviewed: Rick McArthur,
AIM Legal Resources,
Dr. Rachel Yehuda, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience,
Winona LaDuke, Program Director, Honor the Earth, Dr. Melissa Walls, research sociologist, UMD, Chy (Native Youth), Music by Tall Paul and
Keith Secola First Contact This segment of the film introduces discusses first contact which is defined as Christopher Columbus’ and his crews domination over the Indigenous peoples of the new world. People interviewed: Mike Her Many Horses, Oglala Historian, Melvin Lee Houston, Santee Treaty Rights, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD, Ed.M. clinical health psychologist, Clyde Belecourt, co-founding the American Indian Movement, Music by Karlee Fellner
No Honor in Racism This segment of the film documents the demonstrations outside
TCF Bank Stadium during an
NFL Football game tells how the NFL
Washington Football team's name and the
Native American mascot controversy creates racial injustice and how the use of the Native American names and images used by non-Native entities are damaging to Indigenous peoples. People interviewed: Vanessa Goodthunder, Director of Cansayapi Wakanyeza Owayawa Oti,
Jesse Ventura, Governor, State of Minnesota,
Clyde Belecourt, Dr. Melissa Walls, Richie Plass, Curator Bittersweet Winds, Tara Houska, tribal attorney, the National Campaigns Director of Honor the Earth, Dr.
Anton Treuer, Professor of Ojibwe at Bemidji State, Rep.
Keith Ellison, Rep.
Betty McCollum Boarding School Era This segment of the film discusses the US and Canadian governments efforts to use ethnocide via religious
boarding schools and
residential schools in the United States to rid the North America Indigenous peoples of their own culture. People interviewed: Melvin Lee Houston, Mike Her Many Horses, Dr. Michelle Johnson-Jennings, Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Don Coyhis, President and Founder of White Bison, Linda Eagle Speaker, Elder In Residence, MIWRC,
Joseph Marshall III, historian, writer, teacher, craftsman, administrator, actor, and public speaker
Treaty Rights This segment follows a treaty right Leonard Thompson and his son Todd Thompson as they attempt to gather wild rice off-reservation without a permit and in violation of State law. In the 1855 Treaty with the Chippewa Indians Native tribes believe those rights exist. The 1855 Treaty signed by two Ojibwe tribes ceded a large piece of land in northwest Minnesota while retaining their rights to hunt, fish and gather on the rest of the land. People interviewed: Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Leonard Thompson, Treaty Rights advocate Music By Dorene Day Waubanewquay
Social Justice This segment of the film addresses the root causes of health inequities and the relationship between law enforcement and Native Americans. It speaks to social workers, health care providers as well as institutions and explores how
transgenerational trauma directly impacts the health outcomes and legal entanglements for Indigenous peoples in the United States. People interviewed: Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Rick McArthur, Chy (Native Youth), Lester Johnson III, Ed.D., Adjunct Professor University of Montana-Missoula
Loss and Resilience This final segment tells the toll of lost lives due to the increase in the rates of suicide in Indian Country and the resilience necessary to survive. It follows
Meskwaki distance runner Dirk Whitebreast who was awarded the Native American 40 under 40 Award in 2018 for his initiative and leadership in suicide prevention. Filmed at the Fox Cities Marathon in
Appleton, Wisconsin, Dirk runs with youth from the
Ho-Chunk Nation in support of suicide prevention for their community. The film also includes reflections from Emmy May of
Red Lake, Minnesota who lost multiple friends and relatives due to suicide in a short period of time. People interviewed: Dr. Melissa Walls, Dr. Anton Treuer, Dirk Whitebreast, Emmy May, Red Lake, Lester Johnson III, Mike Her Many Horses, Dr. Rachel Yehuda ==Awards==