Samara Drones was hired to create this video for the purpose of communicating the vast five-county area that MAHUBE-OTWA serves. I created the maps using Arc GIS, filmed both in the air and on the ground, recorded and edited the script, and edited the video for this important, rural, non-profit.

Check them out at
https://mahube.org/

Part two of the Sub Superior Music and Art Experience! HEXAS takes to the water :)

I was so fortunate to be included in this community led art project in Duluth- the SubSuperior Music and Art Experience is a series of sub- and super-aqueous happenings in Lake Superior.
From August 13th- 19th, 2023, several musical and visual artists performed above and below the surface of Lake Superior from HEXAS, home-built rafts.
This is the first day- getting the HEXAS rafts onto the water!

Interdisciplinary feminist scholar, writer, and visual artist, Kandace Creel Falcón Ph.D. hired Samara Drones to create a short video featuring her billboard on MN County Highway 210 between Wahpeton, ND and Fergus Falls, MN. The billboard feature’s Kandace’s painting of their goats, Edith, Willa, and Milagro as a part of a Springboard for the Arts program supporting artists with a guaranteed Income.

Visit Kandace’s website
https://www.kjcfalcon.com/guaranteed-income

In early March, 2023, I joined Cory Dack, canoe guide and street medic, on the last leg of her Women on the Water journey from the headwaters of the Mississippi to the ocean! At “Mile Zero” where the Mississippi River splits into three channels, this footage shows the scale of the canoes, the river, and the commercial barges. We made it to the ocean!

Some of my community was (and are) concerned about Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline being exposed to the Bad River at the location of the river's meander so I droned it and made this video in November 2023.
Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline is just feet away from being exposed to the Bad River's current and must be shut down.

More on the Kakagon and Bad River Sloughs
http://www.badriver-nsn.gov/kakagon-and-bad-river-sloughs-recognized-as-a-wetland-of-international-importance/

Bad River Band's suit against Enbridge
http://www.badriver-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Pipeline_Govt_Complaint.pdf

http://www.badriver-nsn.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Pipeline_Govt_Complaint_PressRelease.pdf

This is a video I made for myself when I was living near the headwaters of the Mississippi River. I was having fun flying my drone, enjoying the beauty of the place I was so fortunate to live near, and messing around with DaVinci Resolve (the editing software I use).

This is a “site tour” of 11 locations along Enbridge’s Line 3/93 corridor in northern Minnesota. Line 3 is a tarsands pipeline that crosses over 200 bodies of water in Minnesota alone. Construction began in late 2020, the resistance against it began years prior and is ongoing today.

This footage shows a variety of Enbridge’s construction damages beginning on the west side of Minnesota, along the Red River of the north; and ending on the east side of the state 400 feet west of the Fond du Lac Reservation. Most of this footage is from summer, in 2023.

So far, MN state agencies and the media have publicly acknowledged four aquifer breaches caused by the construction of Line 3/93: the Clearbrook Terminal in Clearwater County, LaSalle Creek also in Clearwater County, Moose Lake in Aitkin County, and at Fond du Lac in Carlton County. Waadookawaad Amikwag, unfortunately, has evidence of many more aquifer breaches which we will see in this video.

This video is about Walker Brook, a wetland that was destroyed by Enbridge and its contractors during the construction of the Line 3/93 pipeline.

It's Iskigamizige-giizis, time for tapping the maple trees to collect sap to make into maple syrup and maple sugar. Jim Northrup III and Zac Earley speak about practicing and protecting treaty rights in 1855 Treaty Territory near Bemidji, Minnesota at their sugarbush.