Growing up in the Cree speaking Lubicon Lake Band in Little Buffalo, AB, Melina Laboucan Massimo has experienced the detrimental effects of Oil Sands extraction and a huge oil spill in their traditional territory. Today it's made her one of Canada's leading climate change campaigners, a staunch defender of the wisdom of Indigenous knowledge, and the host of Power to the People.

Power to the People is a series that discovers how indigenous people, values and wisdom are guiding the way to a sustainable, clean energy future. Thirteen half hour episodes deliver emotive, indigenous inspired stories that demonstrate how renewable energy is empowering communities towards a post carbon future.