SCIC Native American Film Festival Presents "Standing Silent Nation" August 5, 2009

Part of a four-part Native American Film Festival. A different film will be shown each Wednesday night in August.

"Standing Silent Nation"
When the Ogala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. The hemp plant is like new buffalo for the Lakota: a resource, who’s many uses form food to fuel to fiber, could enrich their sovereign nation. For three years, Alex White Plume and his family planted industrial hemp. But each year, their harvest was disrupted by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), which claims that hemp is marijuana despite the absence of marijuana’s psychoactive properties.