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- Mili watched her mother's murder 11 years ago. Mili now has a family with the Jiu Jitsu team, but the gang she once ran with decides to teach her a lesson. Now Mili must risk everything to save her friend from a life of sex trafficking.
- Sammy is a teenage cutter living with her meth addicted mother in a trailer on the Indian Ridge Reservation. Her mother's boyfriend is a drug dealer using the reservation as a cover for his drug trafficking. David, Sammy's best friend, is a foster youth and helps her to escape from this dysfunctional life she's had to endure since her father died.
- How do you tell the story about the shattering of a tribe and the resilience of a people? With truth, honor, music, and a little comic relief. The show has synchronous time periods jumping from 1906 to 1846 and back again. "Something Inside is Broken" is a love story between 'Iine (EEN-AY) and Maj Kyle (MY-COOL-AY) of the Nisenan Tribe. 'Iine's father Symyk'aj (Soo-ma-ki) is the Chief of the Auburn band of Nisenan. He has trade and work agreements with Johann Sutter, but Sutter's slave hunters don't always follow those agreements . Now they have taken five young woman from Symyk'aj's village, including Maj Kyle. Sutter's fort is the gateway to the West and the rendezvous point of Captain Fremont, Kit Carson and the American soldiers. Symyk'aj is realizing his inability, and Sutter's inability, to protect his people from this new wave of immigrants. 'Iine, in turn, volunteers to work at Sutter's fort. Soon there after, 'Iine incites a riot and rescues Maj Kyle, which has a tragic ending for both characters. The Satirical comic relief comes with short segments of 'Frontier Idol' hosted by the first 'Governator' of California, Peter Hardyman Burnett, who is the master of ceremonies of this 1846 style reality show where slave hunters and slave girls are pitted against one another.
- Coastline cities around the world are expected to enjoy a significant level of wealth as they stand out above all else. Akodo, situated on the coastline of Lagos is the ironic story of the silver line. In this town, we meet a young lady who painstakingly struggles to make a better life for herself, pushing beyond a disconnected spouse and a community determined to destroy them. Broken and weak, she eventually has to defend her most precious asset.
- During a discussion with General Chipman about the fight for the rights of African-Americans, President Lincoln disappears, time traveling to the CA State Fair , 2013. Discovering all that the Fair has to offer, he sees the results of the passage of the Emancipation Proclamation. When he returns to his own time, he is renewed as he knows that slavery will be abolished.
- Sixteen year old Dia ditches the Cali Girl! Beauty pageant to try life as a "real teenager." Eating deep fried food, and wandering through the California State Fair, Dia befriends Charley, a mentally challenged stable hand. Charley is a loving, trusting innocent, incapable of lying. Dia confesses everything about her is a lie, from her platinum hair to her favorite color. Meanwhile, Dia's frantic father and State Fair Security circulate photos of the missing pageant princess. Just as Charley realizes he is harboring a missing girl, Dia discovers a gang of thugs is tricking the stable hand into trading horse tranquilizers for rides on the Ferris Wheel. Is friendship about keeping each other's secrets, or about telling the truth no matter what the cost?
- Some fought for gold. The Indians fought for their lives. In 1850, the California sex slave industry was thriving in the mining towns that began popping up along the American River. Young native girls were being kidnapped from their families and tribes. Tintah is a young man whose mother was a slave and he was a product of her servitude. He now is a free man living on the river as a carver and master woodworker. When his love interest is captured by slavers, he sets out to free her. In the end, by serendipity, he must fight the men that captured his own mother and eventually kill his natural father to rescue the woman he loves.
- A hundred and fifty years ago, the federal government was relocating tribes and nations onto lands set aside as reservations, to hold and to keep Native Americans, of the fairly new country of United States of America. With the reservations came the implied promise of water and food to fit the needs, both present and future of the newly relocated tribal communities. Most of these tribal communities are still rich with resources and the most valuable of them all is water. "Once we had a River" is about five tribes, the La Jolla, Rincon, Pala, Pauma and San Pasqual Tribes. All of these tribes relied on the San Luis Rey River to provide for them water to drink and to irrigate their crops. Four of the tribes, the Pala, Pauma, Rincon and La Jolla were always connected to the places where they were placed onto reservations. The Cupeno Indians were forced to move from Warner's Hot Springs, at the headwaters of the San Luis Rey at the turn of the century, because a former Governor of California wanted them removed. The San Pasqual Indians were also moved in the late 1800's from beautiful, farm-able, San Pasqual Valley to a barren piece of mountain top. In 1897, the newly formed city of Escondido illegally built a diversion dam on the La Jolla Indian Reservation. The La Jolla Reservation is near the headwaters of the river. Escondido then built the longest gravity flow canal ever built for its time, an engineering feat of magnificence. This canal diverted all of the water of the San Luis Rey River around the Indian reservations down to the farmlands of Escondido, where the Sunkist Orange became famous. A Supreme Court decision in 1908, confirmed the new water rights of the Indian tribes, under what is known as, "The Winter's Doctrine". Then in 1912 the US Government gave all of those same water rights away to the Escondido Water District, totally neglecting their trust responsibility to manage Indian lands and the water they needed to survive. This caused a major conflict between the native and non-native communities. In 1967, California Indian Legal Services (CILS) was formed. It was the very first legal entity designed to represent the most under represented ethnicity in the US. It began representing the five tribes in their battle to regain the water to their valley. CILS attorney Bob Pelsyger told the tribes back in 1967, "water is like liquid gold" in California. He realized after 3 years of discovery and research, that this was a huge issue and would take more resources and money then CILS had access to. This spawned the creation of the Native American Rights Fund. Forty Seven years later, after millions of dollars were spent in litigation and over 20 attorneys became involved in the case, the cities of Escondido, the Vista Irrigation Water District and the 5 bands, were ready to sign the San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act, but now there was a problem. The US government, whom initiated the Act, wouldn't sign. With only speculation as to why they wouldn't sign, many believe it would set a precedent that will change the balance of water and Indian law throughout the Country. The San Luis Rey Indian Water Rights Settlement Act was championed by Congressman Packard and Senator Cranston back in 1988. It was created because the litigation process wasn't working. This was meant to expedite the process and for the most part it started working. The competing entities were finally working together, the federal government was owning up to its mistake from a 100 years prior, and the tribes were full of hope that they would soon be able to have accessible water. Before Casinos, before services were more abundant on reservations, it was just a struggle to get by. Worrying about water and why the river stopped flowing was something to big to really understand. The fact that something other than just a long drought or that the population boom in Escondido had anything to do with how little water flowed, was unthinkable. It wasn't until CILS held a town meeting on the Pala Reservation that they even realized they had rights and could fight the city of Escondido for taking all of their water. Water is more important than anything else we have. People in countries like the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan can turn on faucets and expect clean drinkable water. We are accustomed to just having it. Most people don't even realize where their water comes from or what efforts were made to bring that water to their homes. But what happens when it starts to become scarce, even in prosperous countries like the US. The US response to CILS is, "What's in it for the United States?"
- In 2002 over 70,000 adult Salmon died at the mouth of the Klamath due to low flows and high water temperatures. In the summer of 2014 the conditions were exactly the same and the tribes took an active position in getting water released from the dams.
- Despite his father's opposition, a Native American teen working at a local fair pursues his dream of filmmaking and meets the girl who changes his life forever.
- This original programming will feature Anchors and Field Reporters who will present special interest stories concentrating on cultural events and role models in the community. The program will highlight stories from field reporters who will provide coverage from their communities posted through-out Indian Country and across the globe.