The Eagle and The Condor film

Shé:kon Hello Relatives! I'm a Kanien'kehaka (Mohawk) educator and documentary filmmaker of mixed native and British heritage and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand Reserve in Ontario Canada. As a self-described Story Doula, I focus on the resilience and resistance of Indigenous communities faced with extractive industry and a destructive overculture.
The money raised on this campaign will be used to cover production costs for a new film I am creating in collaboration with Free Speech TV and many others titled Eagle and Condor - about ceremony we witnessed at the heart of the Standing Rock protection actions juxtaposed against policing overreach.  We have very little production overhead and have outlined a very modest budget that will allow us to begin to produce a documentary that includes original music, animation and high end film video and audio standards. 

Please see the short version of the film already in production by clicking here . Your contribution will aid in creating stories that bear witness to the strength, intelligence and spirit found at Standing Rock Sioux Water Protection camps near Cannonball, North Dakota throughout 2016 and 2017.

We currently embarking on a production trip to travel back across the U.S. to tell the stories of how those involved in protection actions continue to carry the sacred fire that burned on the plains of Sioux territory to their families and their local communities. These stories are the strength and the success of Standing Rock.


Mainstream media producers have failed in their duty to cover this story. The projects that emerge from this campaign will be a combination of livestreams, short videos, and the longer form documentary in service to our communities and specifically the water.

I believe Standing Rock water protectors embody the story of our day - native philosophy and practice are shaping successful multicultural actions against the blinding greed of predatory economies all over the world.

Your contribution to this project will go far. I've already created many films, livestreams and short videos from four trips I made to Standing Rock over the past year and the media received more than 100 thousand shares on Facebook, was featured on the Yes! Magazine site, Indian Country TV, Indian Country Today, and Free Speech TV broadcast and sites - among others.

I continue to share lectures and discussions in schools and community organizations across the U.S. and I am happy to report that people are understanding and embracing the profound connections between Standing Rock and ecological protections that continue to emerge across the world.

My background is in mainstream, non-fiction television including Discovery Channel and National Geographic and I've spend the past 15 years focused on what it means to decolonize and Indigenized media. Click here for a link to the 30 minute documentary titled The Spirit of Standing rock that I created in collaboration with Free Speech TV and Yes! Magazine founder Sarah van Gelder. And click here for a short music-style video of last year's tribal canoe paddle from Bismarck, ND to Standing Rock camps in support of water protection actions. 

I've spent the last decade creating other similar art and documentary projects. Click here for link to a 45 minute documentary on which I collaborated with my Northland College documentary students. It is called From Wisconsin With Love: People of Harvest and it highlights the successful Ojibwe-led resistance to what would have been the world's largest open pit taconite mine in the Penokee Hills of Northern Wisconsin.


I will be grateful if you collaborate with me by contributing to help share the beautiful and absolutely critical stories still emerging out of Standing Rock.

Nia:wen thank you again for considering this project.

Big Love,

Kahsto'sera'a Paulette Moore