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A Choice for K'aila: May Parents Refuse A Transplant For Their Child?
This memorable film asks who should decide on aggressive medical intervention
for children. The parents or society? The film focuses on a Native couple whose
religion prohibits transplants. Their baby needs one to survive. (more)
Dineh Nation: The Navajo Story
This powerful film was photographed in the Sovereign Dineh Indian Reservation
where the Navajo people happen to live on vast deposits of oil, coal and uranium.
But outside forces are at work, exploiting the mineral wealth and polluting
the water. (more)
False Promises: The Lost Land
of the Wenatchi
This film makes an impassioned plea for the return of the land that was taken
from the Wanatchi Indians of Washington State
(more)
The First People - The Last Word
Today Native Americans stand stronger than they have done for the past 150 years.
They now play a whole new role in American society, both economically and culturally.(more)
Honorable Nations: The Senecas' Land Rights
Salamanca, N.Y. is the only city in the U.S. that is situated entirely on land
owned by Native Americans. The townspeople rented the land upon which their
homes stand from the Seneca Indians. But in 1991 the lease expired and the two
communities were caught in a web of historical injustice. (more)
How Can I Keep on Singing?
This evocative film is a tribute to both the pioneering and Native American
women in the West at the turn of the last century, based on the stories of Jana
Harris, Mourning Dove and Jeannette Armstrong. (more)
Kennewick Man: An Epic Drama of the West
In 1996, two college students stumbled upon an anthropological find: a human
skull that turned out to be one of the oldest skeletons ever found in North
America. This film explores the firestorm of controversy which erupted when
the Native American tribe in the area demanded that the bones be repatriated
to the tribe for reburial by the Federal government. (more)
Lady Warriors
Lady Warriors is the story of seven Native American teenage girls who are Arizona
state cross-country running champions (more)
Midnight Son: A Nunamiut Village in Alaska
The filmmaker-anthropologist lived among a Nunamiut Eskimo family of four generations,
members of the only tribe of inland Eskimos in the world. (more)
Navajo Warriors
The Navajos, who for years were not allowed to use their own language in native
schools, suddenly found themselves essential as code breakers during World War
II. (more)
Pine Ridge, USA
The 40,000 Sioux Lakota Native Americans living on the Pine Ridge Reservation
in South Dakota are the poorest inhabitants in America. In this film, they describe
the abysmal conditions there, with neither a bank, a store, an industry or technology
of any kind. (more)
Radioactive Reservations
This film is an eloquent statement from the Native Americans themselves on the
vulnerability of their very existence. Tribal leader Ron Eagleye Johnny shows
how the Indian tribes could become the repository for radioactive waste, if
they accept the lure of quick money. (more)
The Right to Be
A sixty-one year old Lakota from the Standing Rock Reservation, who has recently
graduated N.Y.U. film school, returns to the reservation to produce honest,
realistic portrayals of her people (more)
River People: Behind the Case of David Sohappy
River People documents a timely issue -- the clash between an ancient
culture and modern society. It is the story of David Sohappy, a Native American
spiritual leader who became a symbol of resistance for indigenous people of
the Northwest U.S. and beyond. (more)
Soop On Wheels
The filmmaker captures the character of Everett Soop, a Blackfoot journalist
and political cartoonist who has had to face the challenges of being both indigenous
and disabled. (more)
The Sunrise Dance
This unique and highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache ceremony
that has never before been filmed. The Sunrise Ceremony marks the passage from
adolescence to adulthood for young Apache women. (more)
Thunderbird Woman: Winona LaDuke
This is an inspiring portrait of Winona La Duke, a unique and dynamic activist
and member of the Anishinaabe tribe from the White Earth reservation in Northern
Minnesota. A published author, she was named one of America's fifty most promising
leaders under forty years of age by Time Magazine.(more)
Vision Man: An Eskimo Hunter
An 87-year-old Eskimo hunter looks out over the glacial expanse of his Arctic
homeland and recalls a past way of life when he hunted polar bear with spear,
and harpooned walrus from his kayak (more)
Whose Child Is This?
After the Indian tribes were vanquished, the governments of the U.S. and Canada
destroyed their cultures as well. For generations, youngsters were separated
from their Indian parents and adopted by both well-meaning and exploitive adoptive
families. This film reveals some of these complicated stories. (more)
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