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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.looks at the suicide issue amongst First Nations from a historical and cultural perspective and presents positive examples of native-run programs. We see aboriginal groups who incorporate traditional teachings and cultural values, raise suicide awareness
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Childhood Lost examines the experiences of four individuals who were sent to residential schools when they were very young. While their stories represent different generations panning over fifty years, they share a common sense of loneliness, despair...
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Traces the history of Shoshone and Arapaho family life and shows how the introduction of boarding schools disrupted the continuity of traditional child rearing, resulting in a generation with troubling issues in school and at home
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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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"I'm not dying of AIDS, I'm LIVING with AIDS, and hopefully it will die with me." HIV positive Indian men and women open their lives so that others might benefit.
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Drug abuse, violence and prison. These themes are articulated in a series of stories from the life of Marcel Commandas, stories which are centered on loss and a desire to assert his native identity.
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This Lakota creation story is told through Coyote's eyes. It is said that Coyote is God's dog. It is Coyote's mission to teach man the sacred teachings and for man to understand and master the mysteries hidden here on earth in the four ages given to him.
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George Amiotte is an Oglala Lakota ,Sioux, who carries the sacred blanket of his nation for the Sundance Society. In this film, he portrays Coyote, the mystical magical Messenger from the Great Mystery.
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Seeks a common language of experience that might help bring together native survivors and non-survivors, professionals and other caregivers, who share the same vision- the eradication of sexual abuse, in all its forms, from our society.
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Looks at the history and present-day factors contributing to the fastest rising disease amongst Native American and Canadian Aboriginals - diabetes.
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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 is the story of Anna, a teenager suffering in silence, living in a home wrecked by domestic violence. Anna's mother, Mary, is being abused by Bobby, a controlling and volatile new husband.
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The stress others around me cause will kill faster than AIDS.
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Focusing on Native American populations, this program profiles an eight-year-old Apache boy who was born with FAS, showing how alcohol ingested by the mother crosses the placenta and enters the bloodstream of the fetus and describing common birth defects.
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The story of the Anishinabe people's journey toward health. Through the lives of one family we watch the people of White Earth create unique solutions to common problems.
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Individuals, communities, and organizations in Northern Saskatchewan show how they are working together and doing many things to prevent type 2 diabetes.
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...a documentary about health care in the Navajo Nation. It explores the integrations of two different, living medical systems- the traditional Navajo and the Western.
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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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Compared to the national average, some American Indians have Fetal Alcohol Syndrome at rates 2 to 33 times higher. The National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, NOFAS, is working to end the 100% preventable tragedy of alcohol-related birth defects.
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