POV - Season 20 Episode 3
What does a family have to endure to create a future for itself? In April 2000, Alex White Plume and his Lakota family planted industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota after other crops had failed. They put their hopes for a sustainable economy in hemp’s hardiness and a booming worldwide demand for its many products, from clothing to food. Although growing hemp, a relative of marijuana, was banned in the U.S., Alex believed that tribal sovereignty, along with hemp’s non-psychoactive properties, would protect him. But when federal agents raided the White Plumes’ fields, the Lakota Nation was swept into a Byzantine struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights and common sense. A co-presentation with Native American Public Telecommunications. (packaged to 56:46)
First Air Date : 1988-07-05
Last Air date : 2024-12-30
Runtime : 57 minutes
Genre : Documentary
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Subtitles :
- Season 20 : Episode 12007-06-19
- Season 20 : Episode 22007-06-26
- Season 20 : Episode 32007-07-03
- Season 20 : Episode 42007-07-10
- Season 20 : Episode 52007-07-17
- Season 20 : Episode 62007-07-24
- Season 20 : Episode 72007-07-31
- Season 20 : Episode 82007-08-21
- Season 20 : Episode 92007-08-28
- Season 20 : Episode 102007-09-04
- Season 20 : Episode 112007-09-11
- Season 20 : Episode 122007-09-18
- Season 20 : Episode 132007-10-09
- Season 20 : Episode 142007-12-12
