Indigenous People

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Under constant threat of losing their land to corporate agriculture and federal government ownership, native Hawaiians in Papakolea petitioned Congress to protect their land under the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. The appeal gained the support of FDR and the U.S. Congress. Their 1930s victory continues to affect the lives of Hawaiians to this day while their determination to keep their culture alive is told by the few surviving elders. This episode examines the impact this decision made on native Hawaiian culture and heritage and the struggle to preserve what land still remains. Also, the discovery of gold and its extraction threatens the lives and culture of the T`boli people of the Philippines, and a celebration of indigenous people from around the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro?