Name: Standing Silent Nation
Released: 2007-07-03

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S20 · E3 — Standing Silent Nation

S20:E3 · Standing Silent Nation

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14 episodes in this season

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The Chances of the World Changing

60 min

Prison Town, USA

60 min

Following Sean

60 min

Arctic Son

60 min

Libby, Montana

60 min

E10

Made in L.A.

60 min

E11

The Camden 28

60 min

E12

Lumo

60 min

E13

49 Up

60 min

E14

Wrestling with Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner

60 min

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19881h6.9

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Standing Silent Nation

Season 20 · Episode 3 · Jul 3, 2007

What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp’s hardiness and a booming worldwide demand for its many products, from clothing to food. Although growing hemp, a relative of marijuana, was banned in the U.S., Alex believed that tribal sovereignty, along with hemp’s non-psychoactive properties, would protect him. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes’ fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense. A co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications. (packaged to 56:46)

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19881h6.9

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Standing Silent Nation

Season 20 · Episode 3 · Jul 3, 2007

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