RACING THE BILLIONAIRES –Core Asset Manifest

This manifest indexes the material proof-of-work, policy-altering baseline, and predictive science backing the multi-platform property RACING THE BILLIONAIRES. This property is a fully realized, copyrighted 230-page physical book and screenplay asset registered via the U.S. Library of Congress.

I. The Broadcast & Cinematic Pedigree

  • The Global PBS Matrix: Northern California Emmy® Award-winning Direction (Best Direction) for Digital Journey: Stories from a Networked Planet

  • Audience Reach: 3,929 international broadcasts across PBS, TVO Canada, CCTV China, and CNN Europe—reaching 175,000,000 potential viewers (Nielsen).

  • The Cinematic Baseline: Grounded in the highly successful ethnographic film Who Are My People? featuring traditional Quechan Elder Preston Arrow-weed, who returns natively in the feature script to deliver the on-screen prologue and epilogue.

  • Evidentiary Narration: Iconic actor Gary Farmer serves as the literal narrator of our award-winning historical film, Unconquering the Last Frontier

II. Documented Policy Impact Metrics

Through 74 primetime investigative chapters on KPFK Los Angeles (the nation's number two media market), our unblinking field forensics achieved direct, structural policy shifts

  1. License Revocation: Forced the Governor of California's administration into a retroactive retreat to formally revoke Cadiz Water's state extraction licenses

  2. Federal Protection: Directly secured the permanent federal establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument, blocking unconstitutional corporate utility expansion.

  3. Capital Allocation: Acted as the primary media catalyst pushing the federal governance engine to allocate $7.2 billion to revive the collapsing Lower Colorado River Basin ecosystem.

III. The Hydro-Forensic & Technical Architecture

  • Predictive Science: A direct execution of R. Buckminster Fuller's Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science Built on expert field data from geologist Andy Zdon and the investigative file The Last Oasis, mapping the exact infrastructure limits of the Southwest grid

  • Sovereign Precedent: Interlocking with the historic media-financing legacy of the Unconquered Seminole Tribe of Florida (Max Osceola Jr. / Lawrence Freiberg) Bypassing corporate simulations to back active litigation by specialists Anna Hohag and Aaron Sims to secure regional resource perimeters

IV. Secure Verification Portals

4K field study on Lakota Treaty Rights, featuring University of Cambridge International Law specialist Gerrie Tremmel (Sitting Bull Oyate).

PART ONE: THE COLLISION OF PLACES

The snow fell heavy over the Cannonball River in November 2016, freezing the tents and tipis of the Sacred Stone Camp solid. It was bitter, sub-zero weather, but people stayed on the ground to defend the water.

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard:

"When you destroy a water of the community, you destroy a community. When you destroy life, you destroy everything… We cannot do that. We must stand up to protect the water. Every time we drink water, we say mni wiconi, water of life. We cannot live without water. We have to stand. No matter what happens, we have to stand to save the water."

Gerrie Tremmel:

"The government tries to tell us who we are with a blood quantum card, trying to legislate our sovereign identity out of existence. But our rights don’t come from a BIA stamp; they are written into international treaties that pre-date their entire structure. We are here as the Tetuwan Oyate Treaty Council, and international law recognizes our absolute authority over this ground."

Richard Langdeaux (Running Eagle):

"My name is Running Eagle. I run, so someday I may be worthy to fly across the sky with the ancestors."

While they stood in the freezing wind at the river, a completely different world was happening 1,300 miles away in Pasadena. 103,000 screaming fans packed the Rose Bowl stadium for the New Year's game, completely oblivious to the fact that the turf beneath their feet was built directly on the lands of the Xaxaamonga band of the Tongva people.

The fans didn't hear about the history at halftime. But the moment the parade ended, the NoDAPL marchers took to the pavement, bringing the fierce, unyielding reality of the Standing Rock camps straight into the middle of Pasadena's booster show.

This is the exact point where the story begins: where tech-oligarchs design massive data centers to siphon deep desert aquifers, entirely blind to the fact that the resource they want to take is guarded by a living, unyielding lineage.

SECTION V: THE LIVING RESISTANCE // ENDURANCE AND SACRED TOPOGRAPHY

The unscrubbable defense of the land operates on two front lines: the physical endurance of the warrior lineage and the forensic protection of sacred fault lines [1.3].

Richard Langdeaux Jr. (Running Eagle):

[Richard Langdeaux Jr. // Vimeo ID: 1206675649]
"My name is Running Eagle. I run, so someday I may be worthy to fly across the sky with the ancestors."
As an elite competitive athlete of the Sicangu Oyate, a member of the National Guard Marathon Team, and a veteran of the historic Standing Rock camps, Richard's movement across the dirt replaces Western sport with direct spiritual practice. He carries his nation’s flag across the world's most elite finish lines to prove his lineage has never been exhumed.

Dr. Sean Milanovich (Cahuilla):

[Sean Milanovich KPFK Broadcast // Vimeo ID: 875455843]
"Our sacred sites are not dead monuments; they are living extensions of our identity. When corporate entities attempt to blast open these landscapes for uncollateralized lithium extraction, they are committing a direct assault on our cultural survival and drilling into highly volatile seismic fault lines."
Documented via KPFK broadcast forensics, Dr. Milanovich maps the absolute collision point between speculative green-energy capital and ancient territorial sovereignty throughout the Colorado River and Salton Trough sectors.

Dorece Sam and her Auntie,, Joshephine Dick hold the line at Thacker Pass following an “Illegal” ruling to develop the land.

Preston Arrow-weed and Faron Owl discuss large scale environmental damage from mining gold and lithium.

LaDonna Brave Bull Allard

Sacred Stone Camp Master Tape // Vimeo ID: 1206935780]


"When you destroy a water of the community, you destroy a community. When you destroy life, you destroy everything… We cannot do that. We must stand up to protect the water. Every time we drink water, we say mni wiconi, water of life. We cannot live without water. We have to stand. No matter what happens, we have to stand to save the water."

Captured live on the ground during the definitive August 22, 2016 field sessions, this primary-source audio-visual record anchors the entire multi-generational lineage of Racing the Billionaires. It stands as an un-scrubbable historical baseline that pre-dates every corporate legal template and public-utility contract.

… look closer, and you will see

that the West was never fully

won, lost, or settled