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Native Children's Survival, If not now, when? If not you, who? is an essential CD/DVD collection of music, music videos, rockumentary films and public service announcement campaigns about the critical need to permanently protect our last remaining wild places and bridge the gap between Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and the Environment.
This new release from Robby Romero & Red Thunder highlights 18 original songs and six music videos from the critically acclaimed rockumentary films: Makoce Wakan: Sacred Earth; Hidden Medicine; and America's Last Frontier; Also featured in this unique compilation is the award-winning MTV Public Service Announcements from the r u 2 cool 2 care campaign, plus interviews and News Briefs with Robby Romero, the United Nations Ambassador of Youth for the Environment, on VH1 Inside Music, MTV Bootleg Special and Sundance Channel. In addition, this historic set presents the never-before-released, Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders USSR World Broadcast of the music video "Is It Too Late, and the music video that started it all, "All The Missing Children."
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"We have peoples
power, were going to stand united with one voice." -
Sarah James, Gwich'in Steering Committee "America's
Last Frontier" was first scene on MTV News briefs
with a call to action to stop the mandate to drill for oil
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The film premiered
at the United Nations World Summit in South Africa and
went on to air four times across the African continent.
"It's insightful for South Africans to hear the plight of Indigenous Peoples Worldwide, and the World Summit provided the perfect platform for this screening." - Danie Van Walt, Executive Director, SABC 2 Africa
From the heart of the Gwich'in Nation to the steps of the
capital, United Nations Ambassador of Youth for the
Environment, Robby Romero of Red Thunder takes us on a
musical journey deep into this diverse and controversial
struggle to protect and preserve the birthplace and
calving grounds of the Porcupine Caribou Herd and the last
remaining untouched ecosystems in North America, The
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
With special appearances by Julia Butterfly and Horst M.
Rechelbacher, the music movement travels deep into the
spillzone as an emergence of hope gathers for a historic
concert event in Anchorage, Alaska, marking the 13th
memorial anniversary of America’s worst oil spill, the
Exxon Valdez. "If there is any oil spilled on tundra
in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, there is
absolutely no way the oil industry can clean it up, not
now, not ever." - Dune Lankard, Eyak Preservation
Council
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"Hidden Medicine is an experimental, mystical film
that deals with the
relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the
environment. The story takes place in Onondaga Nation
Territory with appearances by Chief Oren Lyons, Clan
Mother Audrey Shenandoah, Horst Rechelbacher, and Candace
B. Pert. A young girl, played by Dakota René, has a dream
about a traditional runner who takes a crucial message
from his clan to the United Nations. The film beautifully
weaves story, poetry, music and politics, creating an
impending sense of our planet's struggle to survive."
- Heather Rae / Sundance Film Festival
Native
rock artist Robby/Red Thunder's motion picture project is
entitled Hidden Medicine, a film in support
of legislation now pending in Congress to protect the
remaining four percent of America’s forests. Hidden
Medicine was written, directed and scored by Robby and
produced by Roland Joffé, known for helming films such as
The Killing Fields, The Mission and The Scarlet Letter.
Hidden Medicine was executive produced by Horst
Rechelbacher, founder of Intelligent Nutrients and AVEDA,
environmental beauty and health care companies; and
co-written by Chief Oren Lyons, Faithkeeper of the
Onondaga Nation and professor of Native American Studies
at the University of Buffalo, New York. Shot on location
with the Onondaga Nation, Robby’s unique film style
seamlessly weaves together music and poetry with vital
information.
Hidden Medicine screened November 23, 2000 at the United
Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and aired on Sundance
Channel January 1st, 2001, with an appeal to encourage
viewers to take immediate action regarding The Act to Save
America’s Forests and the National Forest Protection and
Restoration Act. Prefaced by Robert Redford, Hidden
Medicine premiered during the 1999 Sundance Film
Festival.
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"Feedback has been more than positive: Congratulations
on a very successful show that has generated more viewer
calls than any other show to date." - VH1 / MTV
Networks
"What
happens when world views collide?" This is not
merely an academic question for philosophers to ponder.
Currently in America, land use disputes exist that are
rooted in ancient beliefs about the fundamental essence
of nature. This exquisitely produced film focuses in
three areas sacred to American Native Peoples: the Black
Hills and Bear Butte in South Dakota and Mount Graham
in Arizona.
Narrated,
directed and co-written by Robby Romero of Red Thunder,
Makoce Wakan first aired on the VH1 music television
channel. The film explores how the three areas have a
connectedness with the development of scientific inquiry.
This film also features interviews with leaders; including
Colorado's US Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne)
and Audrey Shenandoah, an Onodaga Clan Mother.
Makoce
Wakan explores Native Peoples connection to the land;
their beliefs,
traditions, and philosophies. This special World Alert
film focuses on Native American Sacred Sites, The Black
Hills and Bear Butte in South Dakota and Mount Graham in
Arizona, holy lands which have been used and protected by
American Indians for religious and medicinal purposes for
thousands of year, which are currently being threatened by
recreational, commercial, and industrial development. To
Indigenous Peoples, Sacred Sites symbolize a productive
and positive unity between human beings and "Mother
Earth", a relationship they have long understood.
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