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Our third and final screening in the Native Voices Film Series is next Monday, October 26 at 7pm, at the David Brower Ce...
10/19/2026

Our third and final screening in the Native Voices Film Series is next Monday, October 26 at 7pm, at the David Brower Center in Berkeley. We will be screening "The Eternal Song," followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo in conversation with Toby McLeod. 🎥

If you're in the area, join us for a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine songs and stories, all of us grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, and a culture of separation.

The Eternal Song reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life, and we begin to hear the song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.

🎟 To watch the trailer and get tickets, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-the-eternal-song-with-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo-tickets-1993389457528?aff=odcleoeventsincollection&fbclid=IwY2xjawU_bH1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mBWJyaWQRMXY5V3dHZFNhbFlNWlRPZ3VzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeOwlZvZ4SXdrrhDUU-datnrFFp0tmGyDk5LvjDQ5QQFeaL1UWcI0FDmEu7DE_aem_HIhGsL824AoyyN7Fsk73jw

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day and beyond, we honor and celebrate the Native people who have always cared for their sacred l...
10/12/2026

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day and beyond, we honor and celebrate the Native people who have always cared for their sacred lands, waters, cultures, and communities. 🌎

For more than 40 years, we have had the privilege of listening to and sharing stories of Indigenous communities around the world standing up to protect sacred places and ways of life. Indigenous Peoples continue to fight to restore their traditional homelands and defend their rights. We stand with them in solidarity. ✊

10/09/2026

If we don't think about our relationship with the natural world and address our addictive consumerism, the climate crisis will continue to accelerate. We must turn to nature-based solutions to preserve humanity and our planet. 🌎

🎥 In the "Fire and Ice" episode of our four-part series, "Standing on Sacred Ground," we share stories of Indigenous peoples in Ethiopia and Peru protecting biodiversity on their sacred lands under pressure from Christian zealots and climate change.

➡ Watch the full film for $5 here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/fireandice

10/08/2026

The McArthur River in Australia is sacred to the Aboriginal people who respect the river as the Dreamtime pathway of the Rainbow Serpent, one of the most important ancestor spirits who shaped the land and enforces The Law. The river and its estuary are known for their high biodiversity, including sea turtles and one of the world’s most important populations of dugong, a manatee-like mammal, which has been listed as a vulnerable species. 🌊

This is a scene from the "Islands of Sanctuary" episode of our four-part series, Standing on Sacred Ground, showing how Aboriginal people are fighting to protect their sacred river from zinc mining.

➡You can rent the film for $5 here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/islandsofsanctuary

10/07/2026

Indigenous Peoples don't look at land as a profit source or something to destroy, but as a place for prayer, fasting, meditation, and ceremony. 🌱

We are grateful to four Indigenous elders who have passed away, Thomas Banyacya (Hopi), Vine Deloria, Jr. (Lakota), Florence Jones (Winnemem Wintu), and Dr. Noa Emmett Aluli (Kānaka Maoli), for sharing their thoughts, values, and stories with us as compiled in our short film, "Remember the Ancestors."

🎥 Watch the full film here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMXO9DYopD8

If you're in Berkeley, please join us for the third screening in the Native Voices Film Series — "The Eternal Song" on M...
10/06/2026

If you're in Berkeley, please join us for the third screening in the Native Voices Film Series — "The Eternal Song" on Monday, October 26 at 7pm, at the David Brower Center! 🎥

🎤 The screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmakers Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo.

"The Eternal Song" is a cinematic journey through timeless lands and their Indigenous cultures. Voices from around the world and across generations call us to witness the deep, ongoing scars of colonization on lands and peoples, and the healing that comes through ancestral wisdom. Entrusted with medicine songs and stories, all of us grapple with colonial legacies, intergenerational trauma, and a culture of separation.

The Eternal Song film reveals how modernity severs our connection to nature, each other, and the ancestral realm, while feeding us empty promises of salvation, unlimited consumption and individual happiness. As we are drawn into the intricate web of kinship and honoring the living presence of Mother Earth, we awaken a remembrance. A sacred dance comes to life, and we begin to hear the song of Life itself, calling us back to belonging.

🎟 To watch the trailer and get tickets, click here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-the-eternal-song-with-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo-tickets-1993389457528?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

In 2015, we visited Bears Ears, the sacred cultural landscape in southeast Utah, with Hopi and Zuni leaders. ⛰ For years...
10/05/2026

In 2015, we visited Bears Ears, the sacred cultural landscape in southeast Utah, with Hopi and Zuni leaders. ⛰

For years, Indigenous Peoples fought to protect this sacred land. In 2016, President Obama established Bears Ears National Monument following years of advocacy led by five Tribal Nations. President Trump reduced the monument by roughly 85% in 2017, before President Biden restored its protections in 2021.

Now, Bears Ears is once again under attack. Last July, the Trump administration removed nearly one million acres from the monument, opening those lands to new mining claims after a 60-day waiting period. This month, 16 mining claims were recorded on lands that had been protected within Bears Ears, mostly to mine uranium.

The fight continues to protect this sacred land. ➡ Learn more about how you can help here: https://sacredland.org/bears-ears/

09/24/2026

Native Hawaiian activist Davianna Pomaika'i McGregor shares how ecological knowledge, spirituality, and tradition are continuing to flourish on Kaho`olawe after Natives fought to protect their sacred land.

➡To watch the full conversation, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am1ddx-wzwo

09/22/2026

In Hawaii, the Native people in Kaho`olawe stopped a 50-year assault on a sacred land by the U.S. Navy. Following the streaming of our four "Standing on Sacred Ground" films, we had an online conversation with three Native Hawaiian cultural practitioners and activists from the Protect Kaho`olawe Ohana (PKO) who are featured in the film. 🎥

They spoke about the ongoing efforts to heal the island of Kaho`olawe and establish it as a sanctuary for Hawaiian cultural practice. ➡You can watch the full interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am1ddx-wzwo

Thank you to everyone who came to our screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane Film! 🎥Here are photos from...
09/21/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to our screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary Sugarcane Film! 🎥

Here are photos from the Q&A discussion with the co-director, Julian Brave NoiseCat (Secwepe) and California Institute for Community, Art & Nature's executive director, Claire Greensfelder!

Julian Brave NoiseCat also signed copies of his debut book, "We Survived the Night," portraying Indigenous life in North America. 📖

Julian is a writer, filmmaker, champion powwow dancer, and student of Salish art and history. He is the first Indigenous North American filmmaker ever nominated for an Academy Award. 🎉

We recently did a Sacred Land Speaks podcast interview with Julian, which will be released next month. Stay tuned! 🎙

"Sugarcane" was the second screening of our Native Voices Film Series. Our third and final screening will be of "The Eternal Song" with filmmakers Zaya and Maurizio Benazzo at 7pm on Monday, October 26 at the David Brower Center in
Berkeley.

🎟 Get tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/screening-of-the-eternal-song-with-filmmakers-zaya-and-maurizio-benazzo-tickets-1993389457528?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

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