Young Lakota A Native American Leader Fights for Reproductive Rights
In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortion by threatening to build a women's clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation. Her threats ignite a political firestorm that sets off a chain reaction in the lives of three young Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation, forcing each of them to make choices that define who they are and the kind of adults they are becoming.
Audience Award Winner at the SXSW Film Festival, Winner of Best Documentary at the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival. Winner of Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival.
"Young Lakota gives an insight into rez life that few others have successfully done, and with a clear voice that speaks, often painfully, of the truth and humanity that is often left on the cutting floor." - Anne White Hat, First Peoples Fund
Running Time
84 mins
Year
2013
Kanopy ID
2288685
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