SACRED GROUND UNDER DESTRUCTION

AMERICANS DROP DEATH FROM THE SKIES
HAWAIIANS PLANT LIFE IN THE EARTH.

Native Hawaiians call back the rain, and use indigenous ecological and spiritual practices to restore the sacred island of Kaho`olawe after 50 years of military use as a bombing range.

 

This scene comes from the Islands of Sanctuary episode of the four-part series, Standing on Sacred Ground. The episode also tells of Australia's Northern Territory where Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom.

 

Standing on Sacred Ground chronicles indigenous people in eight communities around the world standing up for their traditional sacred lands in defense of cultural survival, human rights and the environment. Watch them stand against industrial mega-projects, consumer culture, resource extraction, competing religions, tourists and climate change.

https://sacredland.org/hawaii-renaissance-standing-on-sacred-ground/