One of the most powerful films that we have watched this semester. 100 years tells the life story of Elouise P. Cobell and her struggle for the Blackfeet’s restoration of all the stolen wealth.
Oil companies have been stealing billions of dollars from the Blackfeet tribe for generations. Most of the land became barren, water sick to drink. The most the people would get was a few dollars.
The sickest part was how the U.S. treated the Natives like children. AIB agents spent a lifetime making the people of their tribe beg for their money. As bad as it was, that little bit of insight cut me the deepest.
I thought I knew how terrible the government treated Natives. The more I learn, I realize how it bad it gets. This wasn’t something restricted to sepia tone photos made 100 years ago. This was an injustice that continues today. And it still continues until the Blackfeet are paid for their oil.