What Would Ed Say?
Hanging out with renowned author Edward Abbey’s 1981 interview material led to a podcast and questions about effective resistance and the rights of nature.
Honoring Malcolm Margolin (1940-2025), founder of Heyday Books
Heyday Books honored their founder, Malcolm Margolin, two months after he died at their Heyday Harvest event on October 19, 2025. We partnered with Heyday to make this video and bring Malcolm into the room at the event.
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Remembering Malcolm Margolin
Berkeley’s beloved author Malcolm Margolin passed away last week. Don’t miss our new podcast featuring a 2018 interview with Malcolm.
Shellmound Victory Photo History
Don’t miss Project Director Toby McLeod’s insider account of the major Land Back victory that returned the West Berkeley Shellmound and Village site in Berkeley, California, to Indigenous ownership.
Florence Jones, Top Doctor
Learn more about the remarkable life of Winnemem Wintu top doctor Florence Jones, who led her small northern California tribe through the 20th century, fought to protect Mt. Shasta, and preserved her peoples’ cultural and spiritual traditions.
Making a Difference
When a donor asked “What is the Sacred Land Film Project’s strategy for making a difference?” it set off a year-long quest to craft an answer.
Ha’Kamwe’
Ha’Kamwe’ is a naturally occurring hot spring in the Big Sandy River basin where the Mojave and Sonoran deserts meet in what is now known as Arizona. Ha’Kamwe’ is a sacred healing place for the Hualapai Tribe. The important cultural and ecological site is threatened by a proposed lithium mine, as a subsidiary of the Australian company Hawkstone Mining Ltd. seeks permission to explore and drill on three sides of the spring, which would destroy cultural sites and block access to the oasis for desert wildlife.
Hope for Salmon
Winnemem celebrate the return of salmon to the McCloud River.
Thacker Pass
The largest known lithium deposit in the United States is in Thacker Pass, on the site of a collapsed super volcano in northern Nevada, 25 miles from the Oregon border. Thacker Pass is also known as Peehee Mu’huh in Paiute, meaning Rotten Moon because of its crescent shape and also to honor the ancestors who died there in two massacres. The site is sacred to at least 22 tribes. Lithium Americas, operating as Lithium Nevada Corporation (LNC), is planning a lithium mine on nine acres of public land.
Avi Kwa Ame
The 5,642-foot-high mountain known as Avi Kwa Ame in the Mojave language is the creation site for ten Yuman-speaking tribes including the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe. In response to more than a decade of efforts to protect the site, President Biden has designated 450,000 acres in Nevada as the “Avi Kwa Ame National Monument,” only the second monument to protect Native history.