Sacred Buffalo People uses history, dance and folklore to explore this relationship between the buffalo and the tribes of the Northern Plains.
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A university intends to build a shopping mall on the sacred site, while the Indian people are determined to stop them, using ancient ceremonies and prayers to their ancestors to help them win a complex legal battle.
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As Native Americans, their writing reflects the difficulties of American Indians today. In this program with Bill Moyers, Erdrich and Dorris discuss faith and the search for a Native American identity in a pluralistic society.
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Explores the re-emergence of a thousand year old tradition, the use of the Sentencing Circle as a means for a community to determine an appropriate punishment for crimes by members of that community.
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This video features the personal journey of five Native Americans told through the sound of the Native American flute... R. Carlos Nakai, Kevin Locke, Sonny Nevaquaya, Tom Mauchahty-Ware and Hawk Little John.
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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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A compelling, true story about the consequences of alcoholism and substance abuse, Native American Delaney Apple of Rapid City, SD, describes his difficult life growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
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This program has youth talking to youth about their ‘at risk’ behavior, and how they made good choices that led them away from a life of uncertainty, crime, and fear.
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Terrorism occurs all over the world. Understand what terrorism is and see how terrorists operate. Strategies for how to cope after terrorists have acted are given in a video that sheds light on systematic, organized violence.
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The program provides a thought-provoking examination of the traditional, spiritual, and cultural values of the Sioux and the events that led to the Wounded Knee massacre.
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...the only hope for humankind to survive is to return to spiritual connectedness with Mother Earth.
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How an invisible man explained to the Indians where the rainbow came from.
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This documentary is about Native American men behind bars, some for life. Men who have vibrant important stories to tell, stories filled with personal pain and tragic social histories, stories filled with spirit, wisdom and hard lessons learned...
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An Ojibway legend that tells how the Great Manitou sent Mandamin corn to keep the Indian people from hunger. This is the story of how Zhomin was raised after his parents died in a terrible storm. He became an excellent hunter and fisherman, and learned...
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The mysterious wisdom contained inside a magic box teaches a youth that true love does not require a test.
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From the preparing of the Sacred Sweat Lodge to a tour of the actual location of the annual Sundance Ceremony, this video offers a rare insight into Native American sacred beliefs and how they relate to the spirit world.
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An emotional story of First Nations spirituality told in the first person by a Cree woman from Manitoba . Visually moving segments highlight the Sweat Lodge and Pipe Ceremonies as she explores the timelessness and the meaning of the Wheel...
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This program explores the many similarities among tribal nations, including a profound respect for nature, myth, and tradition matriarchal governance a communal lifestyle a belief in an afterlife and the use of pictographs, symbols, and patterns rather...
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Gujek learns the meaning of life and death. Gujek is warned neither to drink nor eat nor say anything at the festivities for Wabana. But seeing Wabana overwhelms him. He is barely able to return to the land of the living, where he tells all who will...
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...the past survives through the songs, the dances, the games, and above all. . . the language, by which so much has been passed on. Several eldersfornia, much of the portray a way of life that has been handed down through the generations.
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How the spirit world plays a trick on a young man whose selfishness made him try to possess beauty.
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An Algonquin legend about a young man who lost both his wife and child. So that the sorrow of the living will not haunt the spirit of the dead, Indian tradition limits the length of mourning. But Eshkebuc cannot tear himself away from the graveside...
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This story, about the obligations of a chief to his people and theirs to him, tells how a departed chief sets aside his anger and finds a way to tell his people of his magnificent experience along the Path of Souls.
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Native Americans saw the history of their land differently than the White Man. This video gives a revealing historic overview of the Southeast Woodland, Northeast Woodland and Plains Indian tribes...as they remembered it.
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A legend about a young Chippewa Indian of Lake Huron who has to lose his earthly possessions in order to learn the true meaning of life. Jibwes wanted above all else to be rich. One winter, when the hunting season came, Jibwes found a wigwam...
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Gujek travels along the path of souls, which is strewn with temptations and with obstacles to prevent the traveler from reaching the great land of the spirits. Everything conspires to frighten and confuse Gujek as he seeks to be reunited with his belov...
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Portrays the meeting in Chiapas Mexico of two Maya rain forest communities who rediscover their common heritage just as outside forces are menacing them with extinction.
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...a beautifully illustrated introductory history of how federal Indian law has developed in the United States and the impacts federal policies have had on American Indian people.
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PURCHASE THESE TITLES TOGETHER AND SAVE!!
FOX AND BEAR
QUEEN OF THE SEA
TWO ESKIMO INUIT LEGENDS (SET OF 2)
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Rose Prince was a ‘Native flower of the north’ that touched the lives of many both in life and death. People are now asking: Is the late Rose Prince a Saint?
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