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The Documentary: Neighbourhood: Neighbourhood: At Conscience Point

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Neighbourhood: At Conscience Point

15/08/2018 GMT

Neighbourhood

BBC World Service - The Documentary, Neighbourhood, Neighbourhood: At Conscience Point

The Shinnecock Indians' struggle as their ancestral land is surrounded by the super-rich

The Shinnecock Native Americans struggle to survive in their ancestral land surrounded by the super-rich social and financial elite of the Hamptons.

The Hamptons in the East End of Long Island, New York, is the playground of the super-rich, the epicentre of a luxury property boom, with developers scheming for any scrap of land on which to make millions. Meanwhile the original inhabitants of this beautiful peninsula, the Shinnecock Indians, find themselves pushed to a point of near extinction, squeezed onto a tiny 1000-acre reservation. Over hundreds of years the Shinnecock have seen their ancient burial grounds ploughed up unceremoniously for the widening of roads, golf courses and new mansions. On the reservation wounds run deep.

Treva Wurmfeld and Shinnecock activist, Becky Genia explore the roots of American inequity, greed and pollution. They look at the contrast between those for whom beautiful places are a commodity - who regard land as raw material to be developed for profit and pleasure - and those locals for whom land means community, belonging, heritage and home.

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The Documentary: Neighbourhood

Five neighbourhoods from across the globe that reflect the complexity of our local worlds

Five neighbourhoods in Nigeria, Finland, the US and India that reflect the complexity of our local worlds

In a collaboration between the Sundance Institute and BBC World Service five programmes explore the complexities of Neighbourhood across the globe. 

Trying to rent a flat in the biggest city in India, Mumbai, with more than twelve and a half million inhabitants; modernising Nigeria’s city of Lagos for its astonishing 21 million people; talking to Finns about what it has meant to be a nation always squashed between Sweden and Russia; to two very different American neighbourhoods, a community garden in the old mill town of Lowell in Massachusetts, and the ancestral homeland of the Shinnecock Indians out at Conscience Point on Long Island near New York – these are places that reflect the infinite complexity of the local worlds in which we live.
 
That’s five Neighbourhoods on the BBC World Service.

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