Under Review: Gold Butte

An experimental short film that utilizes dance as a way to blur the line between poetry and ecology.

While currently referred to as Gold Butte National Monument, this location was once and still is today the ancestral, unceded homelands of the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe.

Under Review was created to bring to light the fact that these precious wildlife grounds were added to a list of National Monuments under review for industrial development.  

While not depicted in this film, we wanted to recognize and acknowledge the continual displacement and violence perpetrated against Indigenous people and people of color in the United States.

This acknowledgement does not serve as a stand-in for the actual decolonization work and is something we will bear in mind as we go forward in our commitment to accountability and equity for those who historically have been systematically oppressed.