"The books are a continuation of the articles."
What happens when the entire American West is transformed into a bureaucratic extraction zone? In this sweeping, yet deeply personal anthology, filmmaker Robert Lundahl traces the hidden lines of corporate greed, broken treaties, and technocratic overreach that define the modern frontier.
Moving between historical eras and sacred landscapes with the haunting, time-bending fluidity of Tarkovsky's film Stalker, this narrative provides the connective tissue across a profound collision of cultures and values.
From the Bureau of Indian Affairs' colonial erasure to the modern one–dimensional, Bureau of Land Management permitting process, the book examines massive mining and energy extraction projects facilitated across three states.
Lundahl masterfully weaves together personal vignettes, legal corrosian, and indigenous resistance, revealing how the historic annihilation of Native tribes mirrors today's aggressive grading of the Mojave Desert ecosystems for energy production. The book strips away standard political comfort–zone, demonstrating that the historic fencing of the western frontier wasn't the end of a dark history—it was simply the blueprint for our collective future.
The Source: We're All on the Reservation Now is a visceral, prophetic investigative document that fundamentally challenges the meanings of sovereignty, ancestry, and human survival in an age of corporate feudalism. It is a vital read for our times today.
Before the cameras rolled across twenty-three countries, there was Pasadena. Growing up under the heavy, rigid shadow of a Cold War Navy deck commander, filmmaker Robert Lundahl learned early that survival meant constructing his own escape hatches. What follows is a brilliant, David Lynch-style ungluing of an elite post-war community—a psychological unraveling here referrd to as the Pasadena Diaspora.
From building an unwrranteed battleship-gray engine swap behind a childhood swingset to stepping directly into a smoke-filled, cocaine-fueled backstage funk circus at Madison Square Garden with Bootsy Collins and George Clinton, this colorful photograpic memoir strips away conventional Hollywood clichés to expose raw, lived reality.
But the cinematic orbit expands far beyond the California arroyo. As the digital exhuberace of the 2000s explodes, the lens shifts to the chaotic tech vanguard of offshore software programming armies in Guangdong, China, before colliding with the paranoid, foil-lined window defense contractor vaults of Las Vegas and New Mexico.
Here, space weapons tracking, administrative drugging, and industrial environmental poisonings reveal the terrifyingly real price of modern empire.
Linda Vista is an investigative, deeply compelling document of a dark post-war American underbelly and the relentless, lifelong pursuit of individual independence against corporate gravity. This book is a masterclass in historical irony and structural defiance.
The Journalism Behind the Books
Associated Press Wire Feature: Read the syndicated report on Native American Groups Suing to Stop Solar Projects via the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Los Angeles Times Investigation: Explore the official newsroom feature detailing how Solar Projects Impact Native American Life by reporter Louis Sahagun.
The Environmental Policy Conflict: Review the analytical piece on Out-of-Control Environmental Policies published via East County Magazine.
The Media Infrastructure: Form Follows Function
The Forensics (The Lawsuit): The initial investigative reporting on the La Cuna de Aztlan Legal Challenge against the BLM establishes the baseline data, documenting the corporate rush to grade 23,842 acres of pristine Southern California desert values.
The Visualization (The Film): The feature documentary "Who Are My People?" provides the immediate, contextual physical geometry, giving faces, voices, and land to the story of the industrial encroachment of the Mojave, Sonoran, and Colorado ecosystems.
The Dissemination (The Articles): A continuous series of front-line articles syndicated globally scales the message, transforming localized desert exploitation into an urgent issue of international environmental policy and indigenous sovereign rights.
The Realization (The Screenplay): The narrative script "Racing the Billionaires" delivers the final, permanent psychological distillation, turning real-world infrastructure battles into a high-stakes, cinematic corporate thriller.
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