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  • Our Land, Our Life (2006)
  • Video | 75 min | Documentary, Western
Our Land, Our Life (2006)
Video | 75 min | Documentary, Western
Carrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in north central Nevada. In 1974 the U.S. sued Carrie and Mary Dann for trespassing on U.S. Public Land. That set off a dispute between ...See moreCarrie and Mary Dann are elderly Western Shoshone sisters who live and ranch on their Treaty homeland in north central Nevada. In 1974 the U.S. sued Carrie and Mary Dann for trespassing on U.S. Public Land. That set off a dispute between the Danns and the United States that raged to the Supreme Court and beyond. The U.S. has also confiscated over a thousand of their livestock in five terrifying round-ups. The underlying question is WHY? Why would the United States government spend millions of dollars to prosecute and persecute two old women grazing a few hundred horses and cows in a desolate desert? Written by Anonymous See less
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Beth Gage (co-director) | George Gage (co-director)
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Beth Gage (story)
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George Gage
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Suzan Beraza
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