Update: Big Mtn. Productions Video Shoot On-Location

These scenes being shot are reactments based on a few elders' stories about "historial events at Big Mtn., how they grew up, and the expectancy of Dineh future based on their traditional up-bringing." The documentary production has been in the making for over ten years by a solo project headed by Yours Truly. The highlighted accounts of these stories will be told in the context of the current struggle for survival where there is resistance against the federal government and Peabody's relocation policies.
"Ancestors of today's Big Mtn. resisters have experienced atrocity prior to the Long Walk.." Image shows Yours Truly directing a Comanche scout who leads Pueblo Indians to attack families who were merely picking pinons during the mid-1800s. Zhonnie Aatsaa is the character playing the matriarch of family groups facing a day that turned horrible.
"Several clans came together and traveled for two days to seek pinons on Big Mtn..." Zhonnie and her little ones before bedding down for the night."The matriarch tried to escape but was eventually run-down and had to face the attackers..."


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