AMERICAN OUTRAGE

Selections from the United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival

AMERICAN OUTRAGE (USA, 2008, 56 min.)

Washington, D.C. Premiere Carrie and Mary Dann are feisty Western Shoshone sisters who have endured five terrifying livestock roundups by armed federal marshals in which more than a thousand of their horses and cattle were confiscated – for grazing their livestock on the open range outside their private ranch. That range is part of 60 million acres recognized as Western Shoshone land by the U.S. in the 1863 Treaty of Ruby Valley, but in 1974 the U.S. sued the Dann sisters for trespassing on that land without a permit. That set off a dispute between the Dann sisters and the U.S. government that swept to the U.S. Supreme Court and eventually to the Organization of American States and the United Nations. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management insists the sisters are degrading the land. The Dann sisters say the real reason is the resources hidden below this seemingly barren land, their Mother Earth. It so happens that Western Shoshone land is the second largest gold producing area in the world. Directed by Lara Lee. Directed and produced by Beth and George Gage.

Introduced by Margel Highet, Associate Director, Energy, Resources and Environment, The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Discussion with Jasmina Bojic, Founder and Executive Director, United Nations Association Film Festival, follows screenings.

Shown as part of Selections from the 2009 United Nations Association Traveling Film Festival, along with AZERBAIJAN: THE LAST KANKAN OF NAKHCHIVAN and BATTLE FOR XINGU

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Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Kenney Auditorium,
1740 Massachusetts Ave., NW
(METRO: Dupont Circle)