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7:56 Awake, A Dream From Standing Rock
Documentary Feature | United States (NY)
Directed by: Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione
“Awake”documentsthepeacefulresistanceof theStanding
RockSiouxTribetotheDakotaAccessPipeline,which
threatensthedrinkingwaterof 18millionpeopleand
indigenoussovereignty.TheStandingRockSiouxTribe
capturedtheworld’sattentionthroughtheirpeaceful
resistanceagainsttheU.S.government’splanto
constructanoilpipelinethroughtheirland.
9:30 Panel: Reections of Standing Rock
Moderator: Dr. Michael Yellow Bird, Director, Tribal and Indigenous
Peoples Studies program; Professor, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology
JoinlmmakersFlorisWhiteBull,MyronDeweyand
MargaretLandinandwaterprotectorLayhaSpoonhunteras
theyreectayearoutfromthepeacefulresistancetothe
DakotaAccessPipeline.Panelistswillsharetheirexperiences
andtheirthoughtsonhowcommunitiescanaddress
oppression,injusticeandclimatechangeinNorthDakota
andbeyond.
Panelists:FlorisWhiteBull,AdvisorandCo-Writer,“Awake”;
MyronDewey,Director,“Awake”;MargaretLandin,
Narrator,“Peacekeeper”;LayhaSpoonhunter,memberof
theInternationalIndigenousYouthCouncil.
Michael Yellow Bird, Ph.D., Moderator
Director, Tribal and Indigenous Peoples Studies program,
Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Dr.MichaelYellowBirdisacitizenof theThreeAliated
Tribes,(Mandan,HidatsaandArikara).Hejoinedthe
NorthDakotaStateUniversityfacultyinthefallof 2014.He
hasheldfacultyand/oracademicadministrativeappointmentsat
theUniversityof BritishColumbia,Universityof Kansas,Arizona
StateUniversity,andHumboldtStateUniversity.Heisprofessorand
directorof theTribalIndigenousStudiesprogramatNDSU.His
teaching,writing,researchandcommunityworkfocuson
IndigenousPeoples’health,leadershipandculturalrights;the
eectsof colonizationandmethodsof decolonization;
decolonizingsocialworkapproaches;decolonizingwarand
militaryservice;neurodecolonizationandmind-bodyapproaches;
neuroscienceandIndigenousPeoples;traditionalmindfulness
andcontemplativepractices;ancestralandpaleoeatingand
lifestyle;andtherightsof MotherEarth.
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