Standing Silent Nation
Suree Towfighnia (director)
Courtney Hermann (producer)
Running Time: 52 min 30 sec
U.S.A., 2007
In 2000, Oglala Lakota Alex White
Plume and his family planted
industrial hemp on the Pine Ridge
Reservation. When federal agents
raided their fields, the White Plume
family was swept into a struggle for
their nation's sovereignty. Standing
Silent Nation chronicles one Lakota
family's struggle to develop an
industrial hemp economy