In the Wake of the Flood
TFI Suppport
Tribeca All Access® 2004
Logline
An examination of the devastation caused to the reservation and ancestral homeland of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota after the building of the Garrison Dam on the Missouri River.
J. Carlos Peinado
Director, Producer
J. Carlos Peinado is a registered member of the Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota. He left the Fort Berthold reservation in 1980, attending high school in New Hampshire, and stayed East to complete his undergraduate degree in filmmaking and cultural anthropology at Dartmouth College. During this time, Peinado completed his first documentary, Harry's House, a film about the Hopi and Navajo land dispute in Northern Arizona. In 1992, he moved to New York City to pursue careers as a filmmaker and an actor. He had a leading role in the TNT production, The Broken Chain (1994), and was also featured in the TNT film, Crazy Horse (1996). Peinado worked as a field producer for WNBC and was the Public Relations Coordinator for the American Indian Community House in New York. Upon moving West, he became an award-winning creative director for Native Peoples Magazine, in Phoenix, Arizona.
Daphne Ross
Producer
Daphne Ross is a writer and an environmentalist. Her professional career includes many years as an educator and activist with non-profit organizations such as the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater in New York. She has an undergraduate degree in cultural anthropology and a Masters of Science in environmental studies from Bard College in New York. She has taught marine ecology and environmental ethics to a variety of age groups on tall ships throughout the United States and worked as an outdoor educator with California school children. Ms. Ross resides in Ventura, CA where she continues to write and work as a freelance journalist.
Calvin Calvin Grinnell
Associate Producer
Calvin Grinnell has over 30 years of professional experience in communications, public relations and cultural preservation. A member of the Three Afiliated Tribes and resident of Fort Berthhold Reservation, he is a specialist in cultural and social outreach programs fro the Tribe. He has testified on the Tribe's behalf during the Joint Advisory Committee hearings in Washington, D.C. on matters directly related to the financial impact of the Garrison Dam. He has served as a historian for the Three Tribes Museum and lectured on the Tribes' languages, culture, and history throughout the Northern Plains. He has also produced several audio and visual presentations on the history of the Tribes.