.MarkRuffalo: “Hollywood, in the past, has done much harm to the Native people by too often portraying them using ugly caricatures, missing their dignity, their traditions, their incredible resilience, and their deep reverence for the land and water”
“My personal connection roots back at least five generations, since the time of my great-great-grandfather who was alive during the treaties, turmoil, and warfare in this area,” Jesse Short Bull, a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, tells. “All of this history is in my DNA, in my blood, alongside an inherent respect for the land that is deeply meaningful.”an ardent activist
who’s lent his support to anti-fracking efforts and to the Standing Rock Reservation’s opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline . “I have worked shoulder to shoulder with our Indigenous fellow citizens beginning with the fight against fracking in New York State,” offers Ruffalo. “That campaign lead me to the historic events that occurred at Standing Rock in 2016. I made dear friends there and came to know and fully understand the injustice suffered by our Native Americans. One of those greatest wrongs was the theft of sacred spaces through the breaking of treaties.
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