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Quannah Chasinghorse Lends Her Voice to ‘Bad River’

Model Quannah Chasinghorse is helping director Mary Mazzio‘s newest documentary “Bad River” reach new audiences. Chasinghorse, who has used her growing fashion presence to support her work as an activist, narrates the documentary along with Edward Norton. The film chronicles the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa’s fight to protect America’s largest freshwater source from an eroding Line 5 oil pipeline. “When it comes to advocacy, I’ve been very involved for a very long time, and so I’ve always been aware of many other oil projects that are affecting the indigenous community all over Turtle Island and even beyond,” says Chasinghorse, who’s a member of the Alaskan Hän Gwich’in and Sičangu/Oglala Lakota tribes. Film poster. “I know that lived experience, and so [the film] really was an opportunity for me to be in solidarity with other Indigenous people and other tribes that are going through similar things that my people are going through in Alaska,” Chasinghorse adds. “I think this [film] opens up a broader conversation to be able to speak on many other things that are very much connected to the very thing that this film is about, which is the oil and gas industry, specifically Enbridge, trespassing

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