You Are on Indian Land is a 1969 documentary film directed by Mike Kanentakeron Mitchell about the 1969 Akwesasne border crossing dispute.
By blocking traffic from the bridge, the Mohawk sought to call attention to their grievance that they were prohibited by Canadian authorities from duty-free passage of personal purchases across the border.
They claimed this right as part of their right of free passage across the border, as established by the 1794 Jay Treaty between Great Britain and the United States after the latter gained independence in the American Revolutionary War.
Knowing that negotiations were faltering and that Mohawk here planning to block the bridge, Mitchell asked George C. Stoney, the executive producer of Challenge for Change, for an NFB film crew.
These resulted in the NFB officially recrediting the film with Mitchell as director, in accordance with Ransen's longtime wishes.