This movie Standing Silent Nation features Native American Activist, Alex White Plume, former Vice President and President of the Ogala Lakota Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation and is efforts to grow hemp on native sovereign soil.“ All living things deserve respect,” says Alex White Plume, Oglala Lakota,
One sees in the movie a section on the history of hemp in the United States during the modern period 1800-1950.
In your short writing identify
1) Who is the “Standing Silent Nation?
2) What are two facts or ideas that you found most important in the movie and the hemp fiber and/or Native American culture.