Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

 

Lakota Youths showed 'Spaces of Exception,' a film revealing the truths of the lands of Native people and Palestinians, Native lands, here in the Lakota community on the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, where the film series originated. Photo by Mato White Plume.

Lakota Youths in Solidarity with Palestine Screen 'Spaces of Exception'

In the Lakota community where the film series began, the film reveals the shared truths in the lands of Native People and Palestinians.

By Mato White Plume and Natalie Hand

Oglala Lakota Nation, Pine Ridge, South Dakota

Censored News, Nov. 23, 2025

Mato White Plume said, "A lasting impression this film left was the shared themes of systemic confinement, and the resistance against it. Seeing these two histories laid side by side like that, it clicks. It makes the regimes of control and displacement undeniable. It was for sure heavy, but the kind of heavy that fuels the flame for liberation."

"The most powerful was witnessing the raw acts of resistance," said Mato White Plume, Organizer for Moccasins On The Move.

'Spaces of Exception' Film Exposes Atrocities and Genocide of Native People and Palestinians

'Spaces of Exception' film: Standing Rock, Oceti Sakowin Camp 2016

Photo: Debra White Plume, Oglala Lakota, in the film, "We Love Being Lakota," which evolved into the film, "Spaces of Exception." 


Spaces of Exception Film Exposes Atrocities and Genocide of Native People and Palestinians

By Brenda Norrell, Censored News, November 17, 2023

MONTREAL -- The film Spaces of Exception revealing the atrocities and genocide of Native people -- Lakota, Navajo, and Mohawk -- and of Palestinians -- was shown in Montreal at McGill University. It is here at McGill that Mohawk Mothers have an ongoing court battle to search for graves of Native children at the hospital where the CIA conducted MK-Ultra torture experiments.