Contrary Warriors chronicles the Crow Indians' century-long battle for survival. In spite of every effort by the U.S. government to assimilate the people and acquire tribal land, the crows have persisted -- their language, family and culture intact.
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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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The new millennium is upon us and according to the Native Peoples, with it comes an opportunity for a New Time of Spiritual Awakening. Coyote speaks of these opportunities. Enlightening, Personal and Informative!
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The Yuroks, Californias largest Native American tribe, have lived near the mouth of the Klamath and Trinity Rivers for 10,000 years. This program details the many problems that beset them as they try to survive- their lands overrun by prospectors...
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Candid interviews with Elders Johnny Arlee and Vernon Finley reveal that Pow Wows were not always allowed by the U. S. government but through innovative ideas their people discovered an acceptable loophole in the early years.
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For the nearly two million Native Americans, representing 500 Indian nations, life in the U.S. today is a frustrating struggle to retain their ancient ways while functioning in the modern world, to carve out an identity in an overwhelmingly non-Indian...
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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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Equinox features magnificent vioeography of Mexico's showcase arqueological zone of Chichen Itza, as well as four other Mayan centers- Tikal, Tulum, Palenque and Tikal. Equinox gives significant attention to the spiritual beliefs of the Maya as well as...
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Eternal Drum looks at the social and spiritual significance of the contemporary American Indian Pow-wow and explains the traditions and the altruistic foundations of the American Indian societies. Participants explain the music, dance, dress and history..
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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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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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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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Lacrosse has been an integral part of Iroquoian, Haudenosaunee, culture since time immemorial. This films is an exploration into the history and future of Lacrosse from an Iroquoian perspective.
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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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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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...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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...examines Hawaii's traditional chants, percussion, ukulele, slack-key and steel guitar, male and female falsetto, and lush vocal harmonies, all of them accompanied by authentic Hawaiian hula.
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The story of the Huu-ay-aht, native peoples from the west coast of Vancouver Island and their centuries-old relationship to their river, which was destroyed decades ago by clear-cut logging and commercial fishing.
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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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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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Madman. Priest. Romantic. Artist. Radical. In short, a great spirit and brilliant intellectual comet that blazed through Arctic Canada, bringing much light and burning many conventional bridges.
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Traces the history of the Inuit people, from the arrival of their ancestors, who came across the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska some 8,000 years ago, through the 20th century.
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Presents philosophic view of the Indian Woman, her energy as an extension of the earth's work and her relationship to the male.
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As a young Indian boy and his father repair their ranch fence, the father tells his son about the old people who came here long ago.
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Focuses on traditional life and culture of the Navajo, or Dineh, as it is passed on through stories, through customs, and through everyday life.
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A general introduction to the significance of the dances of the Mohawk Indians as well as illustrated techniques for five common dances: Woman's Dance, Robin Dance, Rabbit Dance, Stomp Dance and Smoke Dance.
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Views contemporary Indian Youth and points out their guardianship of the land and customs to be passed on, as their elders passed it on to them. The narrative of the film is revolves around the words of Chief Seattle s 1853 speech.
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A hard-core real-life documentary of one aboriginal young single mother's struggles to keep her children and keep her life together. Determined, her attempts are most admirable, although life deals her futile flows at times.
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They called it Alcatraz. It was the Kuper Island Indian Residential School, a huge, four stories, red brick structure built on a remote island off the east coast of Vancouver Island - built to provide education and training for the children of the Cowicha
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