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Women of the White Buffalo
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[Available April 12 on various VOD platforms.] Rita Coolidge narrates Deborah Anderson's powerful, educational, insightful, enlightening, thought-provoking, unsettling, gripping, 86-minute, 2021 documentary highlighted by terrific cinematography and colorful tribal clothing that focuses on Lakota women on the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations in South Dakota and examines the atrocities against the Lakota Indians from separating children from their families, robbing them of their Indian identities, and forcing them to conform to white man's way at government-run boarding schools; the pervasive poverty, drug addiction, alcoholism, and diabetes that affect all aspects of their lives; the murdered and missing Indigenous women that are often given low official response and priority; and minimal or lack of financial resources for education and improved nutrition and consists of archival photographs and film clips and candid commentary by permaculturist and Broad Scale Holistic Community leader Bryan Deans, tribal law student/horse racer/hoop dancer Delacina Chief Eagle, radio presenter and the Stoneboy Women's Society founder Carol Iron-Rope Herrera, high school art teacher SunRose IronShell, language integration director Naomi Last Horse Black Elk, Mothers Against Meth founder Julie Richards, police officer Danielle Conroy, American Indian Movement activist Dan Merrival, tribal elder Marie Brush Breaker, Sacred Lakota Water Woman for Native American Church Sharon Fool Bull, and Lakota Indians Rebecca Chief Eagle, Vandee Khalsa-Swiftbird, and Tatanka SkaWin Swiftbird.

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2022
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