No More Smoke Signals

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Movie
Original title No More Smoke Signals
Country of production Switzerland
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Fanny tanning
production Fanny Bräuning,
Kaspar Kasics
music Tomas Korber
camera Igor Martinović ,
Pierre Mennel ,
Dieter Stürmer
cut Myriam Flury ,
Kaspar Kasic,
Petra Graewe
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No More Smoke Signals is a Swiss documentary by Fanny Bräuning from 2008. It portrays the radio station " KILI Radio - the Voice of the Lakota Nation" in the Pine Ridge Reservation in the southwest of the US state South Dakota .

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The radio station has been the Lakota’s preferred means of communication since it was founded in 1983 . A quote from a film mentions that the radio has thus replaced the smoke signals . Kili Radio broadcasts 22 hours a day in English and the Lakota language . The program consists of Native American music, news and live sports broadcasts, but also calls for lost horses or urgent propane gas deliveries due to the peripheral location of the broadcast area. The station is financed from public funds and donations. After a lightning strike in 2006, it stood still for months.

Kili Radio emerged from the American Indian Movement (AIM), which wanted to give the population in the area of Wounded Knee new self-confidence and a stronger identity after the protest movement was suppressed by the US authorities. The film describes events from the 1970s such as the trial of Leonard Peltier and lets AIM activist John Trudell have his say.

The film also shows the poor living conditions of the Oglala-Lakota, who since the breach of the Fort Laramie Treaty can no longer participate in the wealth of resources of the Black Hills and had to make do with a reservation. Now the Mount Rushmore Presidential Memorial is on the land they claim and is a serious offense to the Indians.

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  1. ^ First Basel Film Prize , article on cineman.ch, accessed on May 10, 2013