Unauthorized: The Campaign Chronicles by Robert Lundahl, Filmmaker/Journalist

Interview with Robert Lundahl filmmaker "Unconquering the Last Frontier"

This episode expresses directly and strongly the reasons and the purpose of producing Creative FRONTLINE since its beginning on KPFK as “Climate Change. Is Here” in 2022.

As stated by a Yankton Lakota colleague to me, “Robert, you have two audiences, Non-Native and NaIIve. " It's never been a vehicle for Native activism per se, it's always been a pathway for understanding the need and importance of Native values in a multi-culturalmcontext, and in the context of environmental healing and service held by all peoples as an extension ormvolution of “The Environmental Movement, in the United States but also globally.

Californias desert regions have a long history of get rich quick schemes development disasters and ceaseless promotional efforts. Poorly laid plans are often not founded on solid ground. Once the impermanent Salton Sea was touted as Americas latest and best vacation and lifestyle paradise. Today, lithium production captures the imagination of hungry investors. There’s no question intentions are good, But what about the downside?

Professors, storytellers, historians, 1960's promotional films, environmental justice advocates, and Native American leaders tell the story of the Salton Sea, it's potential for Lithium extraction and the risks

Indigenous Hawai'ian David Pu'u informs on the gigantic Wind Farm planned for the California Coast it's vulnerabilities, costs, and non-ecological disposal in Africa.

Robert Lundahl, Host Version

Our topic today is dams including our own dams close to home. The Matilija dam on a tributary of the Ventura River, and the Devils Gate Dam along the Arroyo Seco, what it takes to course correct through transformation, regeneration and reconciliation taking into account all species, habitats and relationships to all life force.

The story of Celilo falls is the story of the Pacific Northwest. Pictures of Indian people dip netting for the giant salmon that once freely made their way up the Columbia to a Lower Snake river now clogged and obstructed by 14 dams, many with navigation locks, may be seen on-line, a remnant of a past destroyed for "progress," shipping, trade, getting wheat to market through a region once controlled by the KKK, to threaten and silence Indian people sometimes by killing them and impoverishing and ravaging whole communities.

Over time the power went to aluminum manufacturing, a beneficiary of this genocide, used for military purposes, airplanes, ships, and all kinds of hardware for death.

This, the unvarnished truth still covered up, denied and avoided at all costs, generations later. Either we have the courage to face it or we don't.

In this episode we speak with Lana Jack, the last of her people in a tragic and emotional story, only she is left to tell.

And now it's Google continuing the dark legacy of an "American Dream," with Data Centers springing up, diverting creeks and mining aquifers in yet another water grab. for a company whose motto is and was "Do no harm." It is a supreme mastery of hypocritical obliteration, of a river, its people and the truth.

Special Program Launch features 1 hour on Lithium Mining, and Introduces how Hemp Bast may be Transformed into Graphene-Like Carbon Nanosheet Supercapacitors as an Alternative to Destructive Lithium Energy systems.

Nations around the world rely on lithium based energy systems to power a transition to Carbon Pollution-Free Electricity (CFE).

Unfortunately, Lithium based systems pose significant risks, including water pollution and depletion, biodiversity loss, and carbon emissions.

The extraction process can lead to soil degradation, water scarcity, and air contamination, raising concerns about the sustainability of this critical resource.

Hard-rock mining involves extracting lithium-bearing minerals from rock through traditional mining techniques.

At Thacker Pass in Northern Nevada alone, 18,000 acres of old growth sagebrush forest, home to the declining population of sage grouse, a Native American village site, the location of two historic massacres, and archaeologically significant cultural resources, such as lithic toolmaking locations have been obliterated. At Ash Meadows, also in Nevada, 12 Endangered and 26 endemic species are threatened due to lithium extraction.

In our highlighted launch series Creative FRONTLINE embarks on a journey to tell the story of Native American development of an alternative which offers the potential to store and release energy much faster than traditional lithium-ion batteries. Scientists have discovered that the outer bark of the plant, or bask, can be transformed into graphene-like carbon nanosheets used in supercapacitors.

These sheets are highly effective at conducting electricity and could be used as supercapacitors. Unlike lithium-ion batteries, which store energy, chemically, supercapacitors store energy electrostatically, leading to faster charge and discharge cycles. Hemp is a renewable resource that grows faster and with fewer environmental impacts compared to the mining of lithium.

Join us on Creative FRONTLINE Mondays at 4:00 for smart, innovative stories on water, biodiversity, culture, environment, and a positive future for all.

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Rushing waters plunging off the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite form the Walker River, plummeting across state lines into Nevada and Walker Lake.

It is a terminus or sink with no outlet.

Where do the waters go?

Underground and onward down the Amargosa, under Las Vegas, down the Colorado toward the Gulf

This Underground River unites peoples and cultures through historical conflict, destruction of the environment, and escape.

Yet it is Nature's knowledge that gives us hope to realize a new future, through transformation, regeneration and perhaps reconciliation, music to the ears that never stops playing, a heart that never stops beating

Downstream part one, with Matthew Leivas, Sr.