Sculptor Allan Houser won international recognition for his depiction of the stoic, powerful figures of his Chiricahua Apache and Navajo families in wood, stone, and metal. This program follows Houser also acclaimed for his murals and paintings...
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Charles Loloma was one of the first Native American jewelers to use gold instead of silver and diamonds and other precious gems in addition to turquoise, coral, and shell. His innovative designs, so sculptural in quality, were internationally acclaimed.
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Watch as art emerges from nature. Earthscape documents watercolorists, photographers and sculptors as they travel to Alaska's Copper River Delta to paint and sculpt.
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The first to portray the Native American as real, not red, Fritz Scholder has been a major influence on an entire generation of Native American artists. This program films Scholder, an artist of Luiseno descent, as he takes his painting Television Indian.
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Mary Gabriel tells her inspiring story of learning the centuries-old tradition from her grandmother, and of passing it onto her two daughters, Sylvia and Clare, who are also master basketmakers.
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Together with their father, Camilio Sunflower Tafoya, Medicine Flower and Lone Wolf are filmed digging and refining their clay and then molding it into pots, which they decorate and fire.
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The abstract geometric paintings of Helen Hardin beautifully illustrate the artists struggle to depict aspects of her native heritage yet depart from the Santa Fe Dorothy Dunn model of her predecessors including her mother, the acclaimed Pablita Velarde.
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Filmmaker Donald List explores Ovide's creative process that takes him through layers of traditional First Nation beliefs to a place in his heart where his Christianity and traditional values come to rest.
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From the traditional village events, to the main stage entertainment, to the action on the stickball field, this video is an exciting look into contemporary Native culture.
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Many people seem to feel that Native traditions are dying, or are already dead. This series clearly points to the contrary, that they are thriving and being passed on to new generations.
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This classic six-part series, which aired on PBS during the nations bicentennial, examines the careers of some of the most talented Native American artists of the Southwest as they were unfolding at that time.
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Through a tapestry of ritual dance, drama, and storytelling, acclaimed author Jamake Highwater traces the path of the nomads who discovered the Americans and created the complex civilizations of the Aztecs, Incas, and other South American tribes.
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Native American Baha'I, Mitchell Silas, takes the viewer on an historic journey into the ancient world of the Navajo healer.
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Yurok, Karuk, and Tolowa cultural summer camps are established for the purpose of reconstructing early village dance sites.
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Acclaimed author Jamake Highwater explores differences in how American Indians and people of a western or European heritage experience themselves and their environments.
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Unconventional and paradoxical are two of the more common words people use to describe R. C. Gorman, an award-winning Navajo painter and printmaker who treats Native American subjects ranging from geometrics to nudes with a distinctly Mexican...
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A story of Indian Artists as they live in two worlds: Traditional and Contemporary. One of the greatest strengths of Indian tradition lies in its mode of communication.
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The "Spirit of the Mask" unlocks the secret world of the Northwest Coast Indians, revealing the myths, rituals and ceremonies that gave rise to both powerful art and a special understanding of man's relationship to the natural and supernatural worlds.
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Here is a rare look at 5,000 years of history as recorded on the walls of the majestic southwest Texas canyons thousands of images painted in the aeries and on the canyon walls, the legacy of a people who flourished for millennia and then disappeared.
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In this program, the painter George Catlin describes his enchantment with the life of the Plains Indians in the mid-19th century what he notices are cultural oddities, not human similarities.
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This is the story of a diminishing group of Native Americans and their noble effort to continue the 1200 year old tradition of making pipes. They dig through 12 feet of solid rock the old way, with hand tools. They mine the sacred red pipestone...
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Walk through the scattered Anasazi ruins of national monuments and parks like Hovenweep, Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon and feel "The Winds of Time." Narrated by Robert Ulrich.
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Personal stories and beliefs are shared regarding the spiritual uses of some fetishes, such as for healing and protection, without digressing into specific religious uses of fetishes.
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Among the native peoples who inhabit the unforgiving rocky landscape of the American Southwest, a tradition of magnificent ceramics and crafts has evolved for over a thousand years.
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