Lakota Elders and Oyate from the Pine Ridge Reservation speak directly to camera about what they call an ongoing genocide carried out through government and corporate policy against their nation. Shot over the summer of 2012 by the Lakota Solidarity Project, the film centers Grandmothers and traditional Tetuwan Lakota leaders, giving them the platform to address an international audience in their own words rather than through outside narration. It grew out of a collaboration between reservation Elders and Warriors and a coalition of native and non-native solidarity activists, organized under the banner Wagunpi Woashake Ikicupi, or Elders Take Back Their Strength. The film premiered April 1, 2013, at the Mother Butler Center in Rapid City, South Dakota, in Lakota territory, then traveled to other cities as part of the Lakota Truth Tour, screening on consecutive nights as an organizing tool as much as a piece of cinema. The camera stays close to testimony, treating the Elders' accounts as the primary evidence rather than illustration for an outside argument.