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"An ex-con returns to his hometown and becomes an
unlikely leader in the resistance against a powerful
mineral drilling companies quest to destroy their
community"
SYNOPSIS:
Mineral Rights: Synopsis
*May contain spoilers
Tamarack Minnesota is on the edge of two Native American reservations..Mille Lacs Ojibwe and Fon-du-Lac Chippewa 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”.
Chief Lightfeather teams up with the Bureau of Indian Affairs and MMIW groups to investigate the missing Native American women and go to State of Minnesota officals and FBI for help.
The FBI leadership assigns FBI Agent Cynthia Browne to lead the investigation with Native American and local law enforcement.
FBi Agent Browne finds that getting information from Native American and local law enforcerment is very difficult.
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.
In prison Samuel Jr becomes friends with his cell mate Darnell Bennett. Darnell uses his connections to keep Samuel Jr alive and helps protect him from the Aryan Brotherhood who want Samuel Jr. to join their gang.
Rebecca Anderson ( Samuel Jr’s mother and ex-wife to Samuel Sr.) is determined to free her son and expose her ex-husband.
Rebecca Anderson hires Timothy Costley to help free Samuel Jr.
Mr. Costley and his team find evidence that the local Sherriff and many of his employees have been taking bribes and are apart of Samuel Anderson Sr and Leon Eagle’s syndicate.
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.
Meadow and Summer were able to kill their capture. The medical staff save her baby.
Samuel Jr and his mother Rebecca travel to Nevada to meet Summer Dupuis and their new family member, who they call Meadow to honor her mother.
Once back in Tamarack, Samuel Jr is more determined than ever to expose his father and Leon Eagle.
Leon Eagle sends the young, beautiful Amy Donaldson to Tamarack to pursuade the locals to get behind the mine, especially Samuel Anderson Jr.
Samuel Jr and Amy Donaldson are at odds when they first meet and fall in love after spending extended time with each other.
Amy Donaldson now in love with Samuel Jr uses her position at Eaagle Mining to find incriminating evidence that proves the Leon Eagle and Samuel Sr. have been trafficking cash, drugs and Native American women.
The evidence that Amy Donaldson uncovers is all FBI Agent Cynthia Browne needs to arrest and convict Leon Eagle and Samuel Anderson Sr.
Leon Eagle and Samuel Anderson Jr are convicted. The mining permits are withdrawn and the mine, night clubs and Man Camps are seized and the mining lands are given back to the Native Amercian Reservation
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