“In Powerlands, Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso, a young Navajo filmmaker, follows the trail of extractive industries that have exploited the land where she was born. On this personal and political journey she learns from Indigenous activists across three continents: she travels to the La Guajira region in rural Colombia, the Tampakan region of the Philippines, the Tehuantepec Isthmus of Mexico, and the protests at Standing Rock. In each case, she meets Indigenous women leading the struggle against the same corporations that are causing displacement and environmental catastrophe in her own home. Inspired by these activists, Ivey-Camille brings home the lessons from these struggles to the Navajo Nation.”