Up close and personal interviews with Navajo methamphetamine addicts and recovering addicts allow the viewer to see and hear the painful stories these people have to tell about their addiction to the drug.
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Today the Native Peoples of North America are living with two different Medical and Healing systems. This video looks at these different approaches. The Program is designed to improve understanding between non native health care workers and native people.
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A half-hour drama depicting a young native man caught between the fast-paced world of the city streets, and his culture and family. Returning home to a rural Indian reserve after some time in prison and on the streets, Mike is persuaded by his wife to...
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One hundred years ago, the Fraser River gold rush opened the door for thousands of Euro-Americans seeking their fortune. For the Indigenous people of British Columbia, this overnight stampede triggered the ebb of the Native way of life...
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A Lifetime of Caring looks at the difficult issues facing many seniors in aboriginal communities and the changing roles of First Nations Elders. The video examines ways of providing high quality care to seniors. This program is designed for health profess
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A Matter of Respect portrays modern Alaska Natives expressing and passing on their culture and identity, honoring their ancestor's way of life and managing to construct meaningful lives in a western society and economy. In this stereotype-breaking...
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A Mother's Choice examines the root causes of F.A.S. from the perspective of aboriginal mothers. The video focuses on a FAS support group whose members provide strong messages about consuming drugs or alcohol while pregnant.
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The spirit of a favorite holiday's underlying message - love and joy - is enhanced by the unique presentation featuring Northern European, African-American, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian youngsters explaining family and ethnic customs...
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A Native American woman answers student's questions about Christopher Columbus, European settlement and Native American history and culture. She discusses Indian beliefs and cultures and explains how the arrival of European settlers affected Native Amer..
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A fifteen-minute video about the benefits of home and community health care programs in First Nations communities. Today, in many aboriginal communities persons with illnesses or injuries may have to leave families and friends behind to receive treatment
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A teenage boy, Minnow, runs away from school to join his family at their trapping cabin. His father, Baba, makes him take the train back to school because he doesn't want his son to make the same mistake as he did and lose his chance for an education...
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A View From the Rez is a fine collection of video works produced by young Native artists. The tape spans a ten year period and represents a diversity of personal expression through the art of video.
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This short documentary features a Wintu medicine woman, a Karuk spiritual leader (fatavena) and a Tolowa headman.
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A tribute to the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969. Presented as a "series of still hotos" that is carried by a background of AIM songs, alleviating the need for narration. The songs and photos carry the feeling of the event.
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Four teenagers explore the consequences of mixing alcohol and boating. The film is based on a real incident and subsequent rescue effort. The video includes interviews with family members of a person lost in the accident.
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The beliefs of most Native American societies were deeply rooted in a strong land ethic, which stressed the importance of all living things and the planet they live on. To these first Americans, all things in the natural world including man are sacred ...
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Four stories of extraordinary courage. Four leaders who came forward, willing to die to preserve a way of life.
A moving story of six mighty Indian Nations and how their cultures and struggle became an important part of American History.
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The Native-American culture known as the Anasazi lived in the American Southwest between 700 BC and 1600 AD. This program explores their incredible cliff cities, constructed in the massive landforms of the desert, the first civilizations of their kind...
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Our anger can create a lot of trouble for us when we don't know how to manage it properly. It can have a negative impact on our health and adversely affect our relationships with other people. Learn what causes anger and understand why our bodies react...
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Personal demons have landed Elijah Brooks squarely on a city bench. He's one of those tortured souls that every city spawns, a drunken vagrant whose turbulent past helped create his tormented present. In segmented flashbacks, a young Elijah's already...
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Narrator Jana Harcharek represents the voice of the Inupiaq people in this story about life in Barrow, Alaska; a community where the traditions of a culture ages old remain at the center of life in a modern world.
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Beating the streets traces six years in the lives of Marilyn Brighteyes, and Lance Marty, two inner-city Aboriginal teenagers struggling to turn their lives around. And it is the story of Joe Cloutier, the teacher and former dropout determined to help...
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Between Two Worlds looks at different programs available to single mothers, including urban support networks, traditional values and Culture as well as friends and family. It presents two half-hour documentaries depicting four young single aboriginal moms
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A 28 minute documentary about the far-reaching and emotionally devastating effects of residential and boarding schools on native Indians in Canada. Few people today know about the widespread sexual and physical abuse which native people in both the U.S...
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For most of us, native land claims and logging issues fuel political and moral debates. To the people of Gitksan reserve of Gitwangak and the white village of Kitwanga, they are bread-and-butter issues worth fighting for. Over a 15-month period, the film
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The remains of more than 10,000 Native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. Is the analysis of the bones valid scientific research, or is it a desecration of Native American
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Suffering from hunger, extreme cold, sickness, alcoholism and poverty, Qu bec's Inuit had become the victims of a government policy supposedly designed to return them to their native state.
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Broken Treaty portrays the Shoshone in their initial attempt to stop the government from tearing down thousands of acres of their sacred pinion trees. Broken Treaty is excellent additional background for To Protect Mother Earth and stands alone as a...
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A touching visual presentation based around Inuit cultural and traditional beliefs. Todays social patterns and problems are presented in the context which is heedful of the difficult history of Nunavik.
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Once in prison, many Aboriginal inmates are introduced to the Native Brotherhood. It is within the Brotherhood that many begin their journey on the Red Road. The good road. The road to healing.
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