Filmakers - Native American Studies

Native American Studies

25 film(s) found

	Buried Stories "Buried Stories" reveals the life story of a Native American Ella Rodriguez, who, in her seventies, resents that she was taken from her rural California home at age thirteen and sent to an Indian boarding school. A resilient woman, she now fights to preserve her ancestors’ history. more »
	A Choice for K'aila This memorable film asks who should decide on aggressive medical intervention for children. The parents or society? 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 »
	The Earth is Our Mother (Part I) Anthropologist and psychologist Peter Elsass studied two Indian tribes in Colombia and Venezuela over a 16-year period. In this film we see their different ways of dealing with encroaching white civilization. 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 Salamanca, New York, is the only city in the US situated entirely on land owned by Native Americans, from whom the townspeople rented their property. But in 1991, the lease expired and the two communities were caught in a web of historical injustice. 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 Great Secret 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 »
	No More Smoke Signals The story of Kili Radio, "Voice of the Lakota Nation," which broadcasts out of a small wooden house in the vast countryside of South Dakota. more »
	Our God the Condor The Yawar Festival, a spectacular event in the southern Andes of Peru, pits a condor, symbolic of the Andean people, against a bull, the symbol of Spain. In the dramatic ritual battle the wildly flapping condor is tied atop the lurching bull. The film documents the significance of the ceremony for the indigenous people. more »
	Pine Ridge, USA: A Frontier of the Forgotten 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 61-one-year old Lakota from the Standing Rock Reservation, who recently graduated NYU's film school, returns to her reservation to produce honest, realistic portrayals of her people. more »
	River People 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 »
	Somba Ke: The Money Place In the 1940s, the uranium for the Manhattan Project was secretly supplied from a mine in the Canadian Arctic. Mined by indigenous people, there was little attention given to the fact that many in the community later sickened and died from various cancers. 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 »
	Spirits For Sale When Annika is given an eagle feather by a Native American visiting Sweden, she realizes it is a sacred object which should probably not be in her hands. She travels to American Indian communities in Albuquerque, San Antonio and Bear Butte in South Dakota and meets many Native Americans who are fighting to preserve their culture and their faith as well as to protect their land. more »
	The Sunrise Dance This highly visual documentary shows an ancient, sacred Apache coming of age ceremony that marks the passage to womanhood of Apache young 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 »
	Water Flowing Together: Jock Soto Water Flowing Together offers an intimate portrait of a remarkable dancer, Jock Soto, who retired from the New York City Ballet at age 40, after a 24-year career. Soto’s journey as an openly gay man of Navajo Indian and Puerto Rican descent provides a rare glimpse into the life of a dancer and the disparate worlds which shaped this important artist. 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 »