SCIC Native American Film Festival Presents "March Point" August 12, 2009

Part of the month-long Native American Film Festival at the Southwest Museum where a different film will be shown each Wednesday night in August.

"March Point"
Cody, Nick, and Travis, three teens form the Swinomish Indian Tribe, wanted to make a gangster movie or rap video. But instead they were asked to investigate the impact of two oil refineries on their tribal community. March Point follows this journey as they come to understand themselves, the environment, and the threat their people face. For centuries the Swinomish Indian Tribe has relied on the natural resources of the Skagit Valley, through clamming, crabbing, and fishing. Before white settlement, tribal people inhabited the valleys, rivers, and shorelines, living off the rich land. But in 1855 most of this land was taken away by the Federal government in the Treat of Point Elliott.