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Poet Layli Long Soldier explains the term Očhéthi Šakówiŋ. This is the name that Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota indigenous people have called themselves for countless generations. Their language, culture, and very existence has been under assault for 150 years. Lakota Nation vs. United States is a reckoning of systematic genocide and the fight for sacred territory. It is a vital history lesson you were never taught in school. Told in three riveting segments by new warriors determined to reclaim their ancestral birthright - the Black Hills of South Dakota.

An abhorrent classic cartoon explains how European settlers came to America and encountered the savage Indians. Traditional Hollywood Westerns, especially notable films like John Ford's The Searchers, depict gallant soldiers hunting a fierce enemy with no compassion. They were uncivilized brutes standing in the way of glorious colonization. Activists Nick Estes and Mary Kathryn Nagle correct this racist demonization with the ugly truth.

"As an Indigenous person, as someone who comes from this land, I'm just trying to exist." IFC Films has revealed an official trailer for an acclaimed documentary film titled Lakota Nation vs. United States, arriving in theaters this July. It first premiered last year at the Tribeca Film Festival. A chronicle about how the Lakota Indians fight to reclaim control of the Black Hills in South Dakota. The doc investigates how the sacred land was stolen in violation of treaty agreements and feature interviews with Indigenous citizens. Using a treasure trove of rich archival material, electrifying on-the-ground footage and intimate interviews with veteran activists and young leaders, the film offers a "provocative, visually stunning testament to a land and a people who have survived removal, exploitation and genocide – and whose best days are yet to come." Fight the power! Featuring Phyllis Young, Henry Red Cloud, Nick Tilsen. More films like this,...