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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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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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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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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...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 true story of a mother and daughter...love and laughter...and AIDS.
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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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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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Journey Home examines issues facing three First Nations PHA's (Persons Living with HIV) in three different community settings including urban and rural communities and looks at ways in which they are finding support from their communities, friends, family
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...about a young native Indian girl from a small community on Vancouver Island and the events which led up to her becoming infected with the HIV AIDS virus.
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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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Laurel, a young prostitute, leads here latest John into a seedy hotel room. The stranger begins probing Laurel's past with incessant questions, dredging up painful memories from her childhood.
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Brings to light the effects of non-employment, alcoholism and other facets of living in today's world and the importance of taking control in one's own life. Family members reveal the special radiance Christ brings into their homes.
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Magic on the Water is a one-hour feature documentary capturing poignant stories of the Okanagan first peoples of the Okanagan valley. The documentary describes the biodiversity of ancient rivers, creeks, streams and beaches throughout of the Okanagan Val
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A half hour documentary on family violence, focusing on aboriginal community. Focusing on the aboriginals communities this program is suitable for women's groups.
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This program shows how justice and social service agencies work with young Indian offenders as they go through the justice system.
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This documentary focuses on four men from the Native Brotherhood as they make their way to the outside from a federal prison on Vancouver Island, B.C.
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...deals directly and honestly with the problems and the possible solutions for substance abuse issues amongst Native Youth...
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Native people troubled by addiction to drugs and alcohol can come together for mutual support, to partake of healing rituals like the sweat lodge, and to rediscover their traditions.
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A young boy, Ralph, arrives from Thunder Bay to live with Annie and Ron. Unhappy at being moved from home to home, Ralph decides that he will not stay in Spirit Bay.
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The counsellor, Cedric is a 26-year-old Mowa/Choctaw from Alabama who has committed his life to empowering Aboriginal youth across Canada and the United States. His teaching and disciplinary style is unique and he reaches the youth through his own methods
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