Title: Promised land /
Authors: Salcedo, Vasant,; Salcedo, Sarah; Salcedo, Claire; Tall Firs Cinema,; 4Culture (Agency : King County, Wash.),; San Francisco Film Society,
Year: 2018
Subjects: Chinook Indians; Duwamish Indians; Indians of North America Land tenure Northwest, Pacific.; Indians of North America Civil rights Northwest, Pacific.; Indians of North America Northwest, Pacific Government relations.; Indians of North America Legal status, laws, etc. Northwest, Pacific.; Indigenous peoples Land tenure Northwest, Pacific.; Indigenous peoples Civil rights Northwest, Pacific.; Federally recognized Indian tribes Northwest, Pacific.; Chinook Indians; Duwamish Indians; Federally recognized Indian tribes; Indians of North America Civil rights; Indians of North America Government relations.; Indians of North America Land tenure.; Indians of North America Legal status, laws, etc.; Indigenous peoples Civil rights; Indigenous peoples Land tenure; Pacific Northwest.
Abstract: "Promised Land is a social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they've long been denied. In following their story, the film examines a larger problem in the way that the government and society still looks at tribal sovereignty. Indigenous recognition is at the frontline of the battle for native sovereignty. These tribes--who signed treaties, helped settlers, and lost their land--are asking for their treaties to be honored. To redefine their recognition, to put blood quantum restrictions on who is and isn't native enough, to redefine treaties over and over, continues a toxic cycle of colonialism where the government, and the corporations it partners with, continues to unlawfully profit off of the resources of indigenous lands at great peril to our increasingly climate-challenged world."--Container.