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BROKEN TREATY
AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN

Narrated by Robert Redford
Produced and Directed by Joel L. Freedman

 Winner -

Bronze Reel San Francisco International Film Festival

  
Winner -

First Prize Nyon International Film Festival

  
Winner- The American Film Festival  
Honored-

The Berlin International Film Festival

  

 


BROKEN TREATY AT BATTLE MOUNTAIN has found its place as the classic motion picture that set the stage for the Western Shoshone Indians to rally forces. Their battle cry: "Mother Earth is not for sale!" Called a "powerful documentry which is creating history" by the San Francisco Chronicle. BROKEN TREATY portrays the Shoshone in their initial attempt to stop the government from tearing down thousands of acres of their sacred pinion trees. BROKEN TREATY is excellent additional background for TO PROTECT MOTHER EARTH and stands alone as a comprehensive historical review of a broken treaty and a Native People's resistance in America today.

60 minutes; Color

"Broken Treaty tells the story of our Indian People with truth and sensitivity that has never been seen in films"
-International Indian Treaty Council
"Generates a narrative excitement that is not often found in non-fiction films...it has much to say to anyone who is concerned with big against small, with preservation against 'progress' and it says it well"
-Richard F. Sheppard, The New York Times
"A film of great honesty, vigorously raising serious issues."
-Dr. Margaret Mead
"Devastating! If you're interested in contemporary Indian Affairs, it's a must see picture."
 -WOR Radio
"A powerful, dramatic, prize-winning documentary film, Tells the age-old struggle of a people to try to retain their ethnic culture and identity"
 -NBC TV
"A powerful film which is creating history"
-SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICAL
"A human and bittersweet documentary"
-PLAYBOY
"Very important in determining how future Indian Treaty Law will develop"
-VINE DELORIA, JR. Author and Attorney
"Freedman's film is better than any documentary I've seen on the subject. Simple, straightforward, lastingly disturbing"
-THE NEW REPUBLIC
"The film Freedman has made is as remarkable as it is important...Devastating!"
-GANNETT NEWSPAPERS   

 


To learn more about the Western Shoshone,
please contact:
The Western Shoshone Defense Project
P.O. Box 211106
Crescent Valley, Nevada 89821