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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This exciting and compelling one hour documentary invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models living in the U.S. Midwest. It dispels the myth that American Indians have disappeared from the American horizon, and reveals how they continue to persist, heal from the past, confront the challenges of today, keep their culture alive, and make great contributions to society. Their experiences will deeply touch both Natives...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tales of wonder I and II showcases Native American stories for children, as told in the Native American tradition by acclaimed storyteller and linguist Gregg Howard. Tales of wonder has been used in a curriculum unit developed by the Stanford University Program on International and Cross-cultural Education.
5) Buckskin
Publisher
ITN Studios
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in 1820, a Texan fur trapper journeys into the mysterious Buckskin woods in the hopes of saving a lost boy. One there, Wesley Porter must confront the demons of his past and navigate the savage Native's traps in order to bring himself and the young man home alive.
7) Rumble
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks of...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on cultural revival in Native American communities, the film focuses on youth empowerment and the value of traditional ceremonies and teachings and the impact these traditions are having on young native People. Co-produced with native cultural educator George Amiotte, this production is presented and spoken in the words of native spiritual leaders.
13) 500 nations
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact.
15) Ishi's return
Publisher
Katahdin Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the "last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home. Contrary to the master narrative that Indians would die off, the film shows how Native...
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
A dramatization of the biography of Ishi, a lone survivor of California's Yahi tribe of Native-Americans. The story begins with Ishi's capture by ranchers, his early encounters with the academics who wish to study him, and the slow unveiling of his past to Dr. Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist who is intent on knowing all of Ishi's secrets.
17) Wild Indian
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
As teens on a Wisconsin reservation in the '80s, indigenous cousins Makwa and Teddo agreed to cover up a tragic homicide. Today, Makwa, or preferably "Michael," is an assimilated but inwardly raging executive, Teddo is a tormented ex-con...and the ghosts of their shared past have them on a fateful collision course.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Black Indians: an American story" brings to light a forgotten part of Americans past - the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans. Narrated by James Earl Jones, "Black Indians: an American story" explores what brought the two groups together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today.
Publisher
Barry Hood Films
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
A report of Edison Chiloquin's fight to recover land taken from the Klamath Indians by the United States government.
Imagine you were issued government checks worth over a quarter-million dollars. Now imagine as you sign your name on the checks, you also sell your identity, and are no longer entitled to your inherited tribal rights to rich Oregon forest, marsh, and river land. Imagine as you sign your name you suddenly become a modern Amercican,...
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