US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. The link?

The only non-signatories of the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Should we try to right the wrongs of our past?

At once personal and universal, a documentary looking for positive answers and a way forward for indigenous peoples everywhere.

We follow the modern-day struggles of these indigenous peoples and ask;

Should we even try to right the wrongs of our past? If so, how can we do it?

An important standard for the treatment of indigenous peoples that will undoubtedly be a significant tool towards eliminating human rights violations against the planet’s 370 million indigenous people and assisting them in combating discrimination and marginalisation."UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Why don’t indigenous peoples get the attention they deserve?

Why are the historical plight of the African American or Jewish cause (rightly) so globally recognised, when the historical genocide and continued repression of indigenous peoples around the world is barely a blip on our global consciousness?

Why should the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand be allowed to get away with not signing up to this Declaration?

The project started with a twenty minute documentary shot in January 2008 called The Queens Red Children In it, the First Nations people of Canada spoke of their continued relationship with the Queen of Great Britain as the direct descendent of the original signatories of their land treaties.

Canadian tribal chiefs have petitioned the Queen many times for her help, even going to Buckingham Palace on several occasions, to no avail.
Many have lost faith or dont recognise their governments attempts to settle claims (if any). All want a settlement that can put them at peace with the struggle of their ancestors and let them move on with their lives.

The proposed hour-long documentary aims to portray indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, the US and Canada not as they appear in successions of romanticized films and photographs, but as they are today, a vibrant and energetic people struggling under the weight of their history and their search for entitlement.