#NoDAPL: All My Relations

This just-released Standing Rock video emphasizes the cosmology and recent history of native warrior culture as the foundation of the occupation at Standing Rock. The video documentary All My Relations is produced by The Native and the Refugee, a multimedia project and research platform started by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny. The project profiles the American Indian reservation and Palestinian refugee camp – spaces of exception whose position in the struggle for native and Palestinian autonomy are essential. A few years ago, The Native and the Refugee began documenting self-organized indigenous resistance groups throughout the continent, from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation of the Oglala Lakota to the Akwesasne territory of the Mohawks and the Navajo Nation of the Dine. The years spent interviewing, researching, and filming generated close relationships with a number of people who later became key organizers at Standing Rock. This formed the basis of trust necessary to produce a