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MINERAL RIGHTS
By Daniel Perry Fuentes

GENRE: Western, Drama
LOGLINE:

Framed by his racist father and corrupt mining giant, a former inmate returns to his Minnesota hometown to expose human trafficking..avenge his Chippewa love's murder and lead his community in a fight for justice and land.

SYNOPSIS:

*May contain spoilers....

Tamarack Minnesota is on the edge of two Native American

reservations..Mille Lacs and Fon-du-Lac Ojibwe Reservations.

Native Americans have been abused and segregated for hundreds of years.

White men have used them as slaves and killed and abused their families.

Native American women are going missing. The number missing is unknown.

The US Government is not taking action. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is badly

underfunded and on the verge of elimination.

Samuel Anderson Sr. is a leader in the community, building businesses and

schools. Mr. Anderson publicly uses and abuses his Native American

workers. This is what he learned from his father from the time they stole

Native lands. Samuel is overtaken by power and greed and starts to kidnap,

murder and rape Native American women at his bars and nightclubs. Samuel

opens “Man Camps” in his logging operations to entertain his male workers.

Samuel Jr. is a gifted athlete and leader at school. He disobeys his father by

befriending many Native Americans and becomes a leader in the fight against

his father. Samuel Jr. falls in love with Meadow Lightfeather ( daughter of the

Reservation Chief) . Samuel Sr. is determined to destroy their relationship at

any cost as Sam Jr. continues to investigate what is going on in his

businesses.

After Sam Jr defends his mother Rebecca from being attacked by his Father,

Samuel Sr is determined to extend his reach of power at all costs.

A rich and powerful Rare Earth mining mogul (Leon Eagle) of Eagle Mining is

given the green light to drill on Native Lands. Samuel Anderson Sr. misleads

government leaders that the mining is safe to ground water, and surrounding

rivers and lakes, thus destroying water, causing sickness and cancer to

Native Americans.

Leon Eagle teams up with Samuel Sr. to expand their human and drug

trafficking . Building more night clubs, strip joints and “Man Camps”.

As Samuel Jr. continues to uncover his father’s illegal activities his father

uses local police to wrongly accuse Sam Jr. for drug trafficking by planting

drugs at his house.

Samuel Jr. is wrongly convicted and sentenced to prison. Leaving his father

and Leon Eagle free rain to continue to expand their trafficking with the help

of the police.Rebecca Anderson ( Samuel Jr’s mother and ex-wife to Samuel Sr.) is

determined to free her son and expose her ex-husband.

Meadow Lightfeather (now pregnant) and Summer Dupuis are moved to Leon

Eagle’s LA operation. During their trip west they attack their driver to try to

escape and during the struggle Meadow is shot and later died at the ER. The

medical staff save her na

Leon Eagle sends the young, beautiful Amy Donaldson to Tamarack to

pursuade the locals to get behind the mine, especially Samuel Anderson Jr.

MINERAL RIGHTS

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Maurice Vaughan 5

I'm looking forward to watching MINERAL RIGHTS, Daniel Perry Fuentes! I think the two periods before "avenge" are supposed to be a comma.

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