DUNE LANKARD on the Day the Water Died /86

Dune Lankard has worked tirelessly and creatively to leverage so many disasters to his people, to all people, and the land that provides for his culture into structural changes. The ecological disasters that are certain consequences of capitalism can be catalysts to change mentalities and structures. Since the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, Dune has worked legally to spare enormous amounts of land from further extraction. He has insisted on and implemented conservation voices in the business and law of native resource management. Dune’s determination to bring reason back to the dialogue happening in courtrooms and board meetings, and to take on lawsuits with visionary alternatives to the status quo, has made the wildest possibilities of conservation happen in Alaska. He has turned cultural corners from the forced corporatization of native peoples’ relationship to their land, trees, and fish of Alaska. Music by Tonstarttsbandht