This screening at the Rice Lake Community Center on May 31, 2017 was the smallest to date and also the most important to date as it was held in the same community where many of the scenes were filmed. Two native communities would be heavily impacted by both the Enbridge and Sandpiper and Line 3 pipelines and those two communities are Rice Lake and East Lake. Rice Lake is on the northern edge of the White Earth Reservation and East Lake is on the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe Reservations.
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- Nicolette Slagle, Honor the Earth speaks about Line 3 at the screening of First Daughter and the Black Snake, MN. Photo by Keri Pickett.
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- Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth screening of First Daughter and the Black Snake, MN.
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- The Rice Lake screening happened in the same room where many of the scenes were filmed.
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- The crowd came for a feast before the screening and the community served fresh fish, fry bread and salad. Num.
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- Winona LaDuke, Executive Director of Honor the Earth screening of First Daughter and the Black Snake, MN. Photo by Keri Pickett.
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- Winona LaDuke, with her grandson Andegoonz who is also featured in the film.
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- Winona LaDuke with her daughter Ashley Martin Stevens and sister Lorna Hanes
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- Winona LaDuke’s sister Lorna Hanes arrives at the Rice Lake Community Center
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- Rice Lake holds 98 percent of all the wild rice on the planet and would be devastated by a pipeline leak or spill.
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- Large posters for the film are being signed the participants who appear in the film.
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- Miigwech for the fabulous feast that was served before the screening.
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- Dawn Goodwin appears in the film as she opposes any new pipelines in the 1855 Treaty territory.
Following the screening one of the Rice Lake traditional wild rice harvesters came up to me to talk about the film. He must have been the tallest man in the room and he was in one of the scenes at Big Bear Landing and Springs which is just down the road from the community center. He had tears in his eyes as he told me how much the film meant to him and he told me that as he looked around the room he could see that others were also swallowing their tears.
Winona said that she was a bit nervous about how the film would be received but everyone really loved the film. Dawn Goodwin looked at me at the end and said “Thank you Keri for documenting our community.” This screening was so touching and the feast made it one of the most enjoyable events as it was a community bonding experience.