Welcome to the nonprofit organization co-founded by the late Indigenous leader & his Emmy Award-winning TV series
Welcome to the nonprofit organization co-founded by the late Indigenous leader & his Emmy Award-winning TV series
THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY with Billy Frank Jr. is the Emmy Award-winning television series produced by Baby Wild Films. Since beginning our first special in 2005, "Native Alaska & The Big Spill," which also earned a prestigious Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA) Award, an extraordinary coalition of Native and non-Native leaders have stepped up to contribute. With Billy's passing in 2014, we all committed to continuing this "Legacy Project," to complete the series as Billy envisioned it, fulfill the mission and keep his remarkable spirit alive. And importantly, as Billy always taught, to ensure that everything we do "walks in both worlds."
Indigenous Climate Project was founded by Michael Harris and THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY in 2022, to create an enduring library of extended documentary interviews with tribal elders, leaders, scientists and climate activists, to record the common message on how to confront the crisis -- to protect what we have, and restore what was lost. To date, we've conducted over 35 powerful interviews across 15 Native communities in the Pacific Northwest, with many more to come. Many of these are seen in "CLIMATE STORY," the fourth installment of "THIS IS INDIAN COUNTRY With Billy Frank Jr." The Project has been made possible in part by the BECU Foundation, the Hugh and Jane Ferguson Foundation, and Baby Wild Films. Special thanks to Washington Wild and the Pacific Education Institute.