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‘Bad River,’ About a Tribe’s David vs. Goliath Pipeline Fight, Highlights the Power of Long-Term Thinking
In making a pipeline movie, film producer, writer and director Mary Mazzio was struck by the tribe’s “extraordinary spirit of generosity” to future people.
By Victoria St. Martin, Phil McKenna
A small Native American reservation in northern Wisconsin is home to the “Everglades of the North,” a vast wetlands on the shores of Lake Superior, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. The tribe that lives there, the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians, has fought to protect its homeland, and the wild rice beds that are a cornerstone of tribal culture and their food supply, since before the reservation was established in 1854.
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