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Young Lakota

Label
Young Lakota
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Young Lakota
Oclc number
1023859038
resource.otherEventInformation
Originally produced by Cine Qua Non in 2013
Runtime
83
Summary
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
Technique
live action
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