Big Mountain Video Project in Dineh Demo

Project: "The Dineh Story from Big Mountain: Why We Must Not Be Relocated"

This 5.5 minute demo is to give you an idea about the project. The peoples' name were not put on this demo but if the original or final cut is ever produced the names will be there. In case you do not know about the background, the US government passed a relocation law in 1974 and the unique, intact culture at Big Mountain began a resistance movement against Peabody Coal Compnay and the federal Indian relocation commission.

The documentary project IF successfully completed will have traditional Dineh who are affected by the relocation policies speak about their elders' teachings and stories when they were a child or a teen. The Dineh will tell about the importance of holding on to their threatened culturals, clan systems, language, and ancient rituals of the lands.

Big Mountain Productions began in 1984 and it completed a very unprofessinal documentary in 1992: "Family of the Great Mystery." Unprofessional because of the lack of equipment, funds, video-taping in remote places, and yours truly, Chief Loner, was never trained in electronic media. It was a mere desperate attempt by a lone Injun trying to show a story, to be told by the Innden (Indian).

-SheepDogNationRocks2009