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Documentary filmmaker Sonya Rosario examines the forgotten 1974 between the United States and Idaho’s Kootenai Tribe. Incensed at the deplorable living conditions in their village near Bonners Ferry and enraged at the taking of their ancestral land, the Kootenai Tribe declared war on the government in hopes of drawing attention to their plight. While some of the tribe’s demands were never met, the declaration of war did manage to improve their situation in a variety…