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Standing on Sacred Ground

S1 E1- Pilgrims and Tourists

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2014

1 Seasons

In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks to rein in tourism and resist a gas pipeline that would cut through a World Heritage Site. In nothern California, Winnemem Wintu girls grind herbs on a sacred medicine rock as elders protest U.S. government plans to enlarge one of the West's biggest dams and forever submerge this touchstone of a tribe.

Seasons

Season 14

Episodes

1. Pilgrims and Tourists

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2. Profit and Loss

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In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned mine has violently relocated villagers, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their traditional hunting grounds are stripmined to unearth the world's third-largest oil reserve.

Standing on Sacred Ground

Seasons

Episodes

1. Pilgrims and Tourists

2. Profit and Loss

3. Fire and Ice

4. Islands of Sanctuary