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Katahdin Foundation, based in Berkeley, CA, is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit documentary film production company dedicated to producing films on critical social and political issues. Katahdin’s mission is to tell compelling stories often ignored by mainstream media – stories that inform, enlighten, entertain, inspire and even enrage. Lisa B. Thomas, co-founder and former CEO of Clif Bar, Inc. is President and Executive Producer. Roberta Grossman co-founded Katahdin Productions and serves as Producer and Director. Deann Borshay Liem is Katahdin Foundation’s Executive Director.
The After Innocence Campaign

With Homeland as a centerpiece, Katahdin Foundation has partnered with Active Voice to create an engagement campaign that fosters accessible, productive discourse on issues of environmental justice on Native American lands and the importance of reducing U.S. energy consumption and waste production.

The campaign includes bringing Homeland back to the reservations where the program was filmed and the surrounding communities for screenings and discussions. An action guide is currently in development that aims to equip viewers with ways to help and support Native American environmental justice issues.

Homeland has already screened three times on the Navajo Reservation the week prior to a groundbreaking Navajo Nation Council vote passing a 25-year ban on uranium mining.

Screenings also include the Green Screen Film Festival as part of the UN World Environmental Day in San Francisco and showings in Washington D.C. to highlight issues related to natural resources and energy policies.

About the film
Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, a feature-length documentary film, features leaders from four Native American communities passionately engaged in struggles to preserve sovereignty and save their lands from environmental degradation. They are:

  • Gail Small, Northern Cheyenne, Montana – A Northern Cheyenne attorney fights 75,000 proposed coal bed methane gas wells that threaten to make the reservation unsuitable for farming or ranching.
  • Evon Peter, Gwich’in, Alaska – A young Gwich’in Chief of an isolated community battles efforts to drill for oil in the fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
  • Mitchell and Rita Capitan, Eastern Navajo, New Mexico –
    Grassroots activists rally their impoverished community of Crownpoint against new uranium mining that threatens to taint the only source of drinking water for 15,000 Navajo people.
  • Barry Dana, Penobscot, Maine – A determined Chief confronts the state of Maine and powerful paper companies dumping toxins in the Penobscot River, the source of his tribe's food and culture for 10,000 years.

For more information on Homeland, please go to the film's web site, www.katahdin.org.

 
Praise
“I think the water’s alive, it’s moving. With water here, we can live forever. And as long as the river flows, the grass grows, you always have a homeland.”

Cowboy Fisher
Northern Cheyenne
“You cannot overstate the
significance of people who
can struggle against the largest corporations in the world…how amazing that resilience is and the wellspring of spirituality and the wellspring of their ancestors working with them.”

Winona LaDuke
Honor the Earth
“It’s not just here, all over the country, 30 years of environmental protections are quietly being dismantled. Sometimes, it seems like many Americans are blind to what’s going on, but we don’t have the luxury of looking the other way – we can’t give up on the river.”

Barry Dana
Penobscot