Who Controls the Land (2018)
Native American actor Martin Sensmeier travels to San Juan County, Utah, to investigate the controversy over the Bears Ears National Monument. While there, he learns how the fight over the monument is just one more battle in a long-running war between the county's Native American citizens and their Mormon neighbors over who will control the future of the county. His journey reveals how voting rights denied by the Mormons have led to the marginalization of their Native neighbors and learns about the long history of looting of sacred archeological sites in the county.
Directors: Lucian Read, Sterlin Harjo.
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Lucian Read as Filmmaker |
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Sterlin Harjo as Filmmaker |
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Angelo Baca as |
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Jacqueline Keeler as |
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Jonah Yellowman as |
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Mark Maryboy as |
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Martin Sensmeier as |
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Phil Lyman as |
| Directing | Lucian Read | Director |
| Directing | Sterlin Harjo | Director |