Share the Earth Environmental Film Series – Bad River

The film chronicles the Wisconsin-based Bad River Band and the Band’s ongoing fight for sovereignty. This inspiring project brings us into the present with a David and Goliath battle over a 70-year-old pipeline on the brink of rupture into Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America. The film is produced by a team of Indigenous creatives that includes Mato Wayuhi and Taylor Hensel of the acclaimed Reservation Dogs.

Preceded by Something in the Water, a short film by filmmaker Nateya Taylor. Five water justice advocates discuss how Milwaukee’s Black communities are disproportionately being lead poisoned and the debilitating effects on residents’ health, with hopes to see equitable change that will heal the water and Black residents’ relationship to it.

Followed by a post-film discussion with visual artist Melanie Ariens and an Indigenous water activist.

(Mary Mazzio, USA, English, 2024, 128 min, DCP)

Cosponsored by Sociocultural Programming and the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education