Waterbuster

2006 Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival, New York City. The Hidatsa/Mandan filmmaker, Carlos Peinado, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to his ancestral homeland on the Fort Berthold Three Affiliated Tribes reservation in North Dakota. He discovers he had become separated from his family, his community and his tribal identity. Having traveled through many worlds, the filmmaker realizes he cannot choose the shape of his future until he understands and embraces the shape of his past. He chronicles the massive 1950s Garrison Dam project, which displaced his people submerging 156,000 acres of fertile land, and ultimately displacing his family and the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara).