Here’s a small video that makes up one of the almost four hours worth of extra features on the Special Edition of the Rez Bomb DVD. It’s a montage of the Rez narrated by the films director and just gives some background to the reservation.
The full extra features are: Directors commentary
extra documentaries
Russell Means interview 48mins
Snapshot: A day in the life of Russell Means
At home with Arlette Loud Hawk
Director Steven Lewis Simpson at Wounded Knee
Pine Ridge locations tour
Rushville locations tour
Sheridan Livestock Market
Sheridan County Players
Ranch Life
Trailer
Nine minute opening of Scottish version
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I am putting this on my page. http://www.myspace.com/rarestones
I agree with Cynthia; this deserves other venues besides your blog page which is always fabulous by the way.
Thanks for sharing this with us today. Very important Americans see this.
The more we can bring light to the poverty and distress of our own citizens then maybe change will come for our people. There are people here in the US, not third world countries who do not have the basic necessities of life, mainly clean water sources, heat, food and shelter and they live in our own backyards, not thousand miles away or across any oceans. Our politicians need to spend billions of dollars improving the quality of life here and not fighting another man’s war. Fight the war of poverty in America! Ah-ho!
That was absolutely shocking. All the rich people in the United States so worried about poverty in other countries, its right here in our own country. Ive seen it in the mountains of Western North Carolina also.
I wish someone on the nightly news would report on whats going on there, its like this area is just forgotten.
I grew up outside the Indian Rezs, being told I was white nothing more. As I grew older and learned my true idenitity, I was fortunate to have the love and friendship of Indian friends that adopted me and made me feel like I belonged. I would gladly be poor so others in the Dakotas have more. What people think is poor never walked to where all a person has another human’s love, nothing else of their own. They don’t ask for charity or pity they ask for what rightly belongs to them and was promised to them over and over, the US goverment has yet to give. If they leave the rez to find work they leave their families communities everything they know, if they stay they can’t find work. All because of the years the federal goverment has looked the other way.
Carolina that was very beautifully put.
Stacey it is so true that so little attention is given to the grotesque poverty within the continental US, though foreign aid from the US per capita is quite low compared to the rest of the developed world also (especially compared to the Scandinavians who are very generous. It is even less when you take out the US aide going to countries they are rebuilding after first destroying them. It is hard to stomach who far away many of us are when it comes to being compassionate and as Carolina put it seeing justice based on the treaties done.
Thanks so much for the comments.