Who Controls the Land

Plot

Native American actor Martin Sensmeier travels to San Juan County, Utah, to investigate the controversy over the Bears Ears National Monument. While there, he learns how the fight over the monument is just one more battle in a long-running war between the county's Native American citizens and their Mormon neighbors over who will control the future of the county. His journey reveals how voting rights denied by the Mormons have led to the marginalization of their Native neighbors and learns about the long history of looting of sacred archeological sites in the county.

Cast

Lucian Read

Filmmaker

Sterlin Harjo

Filmmaker

Angelo Baca

Jacqueline Keeler

Jonah Yellowman

Mark Maryboy

Martin Sensmeier

Phil Lyman