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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Living deep in the Canadian wilderness, the Lac La Croix band of Ojibway have fought to maintain their tradition of living in harmony with the land. This program looks at their dispute with U.S. game wardens who have denied them the right to guide fish...
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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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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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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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Steve Jones investigates what constitutes Native American blood, then follows three individuals as they use DNA matching of a female gene to attempt to confirm a genetic link between themselves and their Pequot ancestors.
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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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The story of Gloria Morgan, a Shuswap First Nations woman, and her search for justice. Her struggle for survival, dignity and justice in a country trying to recover from its colonial history is compelling, tragic yet hopeful and optimistic
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Abuse, neglect, poverty, crime, racism all issues many Canadian First Nations and M tis youth face each day. Circle of Voices is a pilot theater project that attempts to look at one of the causes of these issues - the residential school experience.
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This sensitively wrought program chronicles America's westward expansion and the subsequent destruction of the Lakota way of life.
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Provides a general introduction to issues relating to family and domestic violence services in Indian communities throughout California. Discusses historical relationships between tribes and law enforcement, personal experiences, and potential solutions.
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This one hour documentary follows the journey of Cree filmmaker Paul M. Rickard as he searches for his own language roots and discovers the tireless efforts of many individuals who are promoting, reviving and preserving the use of Aboriginal languages...
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In close-knit communities, where officers may find themselves forced to arrest neighbors and relatives, police work is particularly difficult. That difficulty is compounded for police working among First Nations people dealing with...
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Explores the roots of Indian rodeos, established in the 40's partly in reaction to the discrimination experienced by Aboriginal horsemen at mainstream events. Today many reserves host their own annual rodeos.
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...tells the story of Charlie Lone Wolf, a troubled urban Navajo and Lakota youth whose journey from Denver to the home of his sheepherder uncle on the Navajo reservation launches him on a voyage of discovery.
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A brief beautifully illustrated animation film with a clear environmental message. In New Mexico, an ancient Native American rock art site lies 35 miles from the detonation site of the world s first atomic bomb.
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A child put up for adoption in a non-native home, after years of separation, still dreams of her brother and the love they once shared. She decides to return to the reservation to find her brother...
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This program chronicles the lives of two families; a Native American family, which has recently moved from a reservation to the city; and a family from Laos, who recently immigrated to the same city.
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This is a story that has happened too many times to too many people. The film depicts a situation in which a state court decision leads to a young Indian child's removal from his home. He is placed out of the area in a middle class non-Indian environment.
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Integrating and physically involving the viewing audience into educational traditional native theatre, Ka'ma'mo'pi'cik takes an exciting behind-the-scenes look into a new approach for community Native and Non-Native relations.
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Explores the world of native businesses and highlights successful aboriginal entrepreneurs. Shows Native youth that there are alternatives to depending on tribal or federal money for a living.
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Explores some of the issues faced by Aboriginal people living off-reserve. These issues range from racism to the inability to afford decent housing.
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Presents an emotional and personal approach to the outcomes of the modern treaty process in Canada.
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An emotionally moving and upbeat program that gives voice to some of our finest Canadian Aboriginal women. Historical segments in the program contrast the traditional equality of power, male to female within native communities...
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The Kanaka Maoli, the original people of Hawaii, lost their land and have no treaties or offers of protection. The United States government set land aside for them, but it continues to be occupied by non-Natives..
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