Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band's land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.
Direction
Mazzio lets tribal voices lead, not explain themselves to outsiders.
Cinematography
Lake Superior as character — gorgeous, threatened, undefeated.
Director
Mary Mazzio
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Mary Mazzio is a former Olympic rower — her water obsession makes perfect sense now.
The Ojibwe's treaty rights to hunt, fish, and gather are legally ironclad — this film shows why they're using them as environmental weapons.
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