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Off the reserve and trying to find ways to live and love in the big city, Jonny Appleseed, a young Two-Spirit/Indigiqueer, becomes a cybersex worker who fetishizes himself in order to make a living. Jonny's world is a series of breakages, appendages, and linkages - and as he goes through the motions of preparing to return home for his step-father's funeral, he learns how to put together the pieces of his life. Jonny Appleseed is a unique, shattering...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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In 1973 a rookie reporter is sent to cover armed members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) who have taken over the historic village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota. En route to Wounded Knee, he is threatened by a paramilitary group whose members oppose the takeover and consider the press the "enemy of the people." To get the inside story, the reporter circumvents government roadblocks surrounding the besieged village and embeds with the militants....
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
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Planet Group Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (72 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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European filmmaker Eric Connor was granted unlimited access into the private, mysterious world of the Ezidis, an ancient people who have endured centuries of persecution.
6) Horse Tribe
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (57 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Legendary as one of America's greatest horse tribes, the 21st century Nez Perce decided to bring horses back to their land and lives with the unlikely help of a charismatic Navajo horseman, Rudy Shebala. His mentorship guides at-risk teenagers toward the strong medicine of horses, and his equine skills bring historic Nez Perce horse culture to modern renown. But his personal demons imperil both accomplishments. HORSE TRIBE is an epic story about...
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"With winter looming, a small northern Anishinaabe community goes dark. Cut off, people become passive and confused. Panic builds as the food supply dwindles. While the band council and a pocket of community members struggle to maintain order, an unexpected visitor arrives, escaping the crumbling society to the south. Soon after, others follow. The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take...
9) Typee
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Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material...
10) What Was Ours
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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An Eastern Shoshone elder and two Northern Arapaho youth living on the Wind River Indian Reservation attempt to learn why thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten. Like millions of indigenous people in many parts of the world, they do not control their own material culture. It is being preserved, locked away, by ‘outsiders’ who themselves do not know what they...
11) Aztecs
Publisher
Illuminations
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (36 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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AZTECS introduces the last great civilisation of central Mexico, which flourished from the mid-14th century to its destruction by the invading Spanish in 1521. Presented by sculptor Antony Gormley, the film complements the astonishing 2002-3 exhibition of Aztec culture at London’s Royal Academy. Many of the extraordinary and splendid works loaned to this show are illustrated, along with sculptures and other objects filmed on location in Mexico City...
12) Bee Nation
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (81 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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BEE NATION follows the inspirational stories of Indigenous youth living on reserves in Saskatchewan as they participate in the first-ever First Nations Provincial Spelling Bee in Canada.
13) Yellow Fever
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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YELLOW FEVER follows Tina Garnanez, a Navajo veteran returning from duty with the U.S. Army who realizes that her home on the Navajo Reservation has become a battleground in a protracted war over nuclear proliferation. As she seeks to learn about her own family history and its relationship to the uranium mines, we witness her evolution from curious family member to environmental justice activist.
14) Blood Memory
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (166 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Battles over blood quantum and ‘best interests’ resurface the untold history of America’s Indian Adoption Era – a time when nearly one-third of children were removed from tribal communities nationwide. As political scrutiny over Indian child welfare intensifies, an adoption survivor helps others find their way home through song and ceremony.
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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FIGHTING OVER SIOUX is a feature-length documentary told through one-on-one interviews with tribal leaders, students, alumni, bloggers, reporters, politicians, and super fans. When the NCAA bans a small hockey town’s Native American name and logo, a battle begins to save a college icon.
Publisher
East Village Entertainment
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (71 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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BEYOND STANDING ROCK takes a close-up look at the controversy on the front lines of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The film investigates the collision of energy development and tribal rights/sovereignty. BEYOND STANDING ROCK explores these issues through three different tribal stories: The Dakota Access Pipeline (Standing Rock Sioux), the Southern Ute Tribe energy development, and a coalition of tribes in the Four Corners region, fighting for control...
17) Yasuni Man
Publisher
Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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A desperate struggle between conservationists and oil interests plays out in YASUNI MAN as the indigenous peoples living in the heart of the Ecuadorian Amazon struggle to preserve their way of life against encroaching modernity. Filmmaker and biologist Ryan Patrick Killackey documents both the staggering biodiversity of the Yasuni region at risk of destruction alongside the Waorani people who call it home.
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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57 pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
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"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure for...
Publisher
Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2021.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (55 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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HOME FROM SCHOOL follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who were shipped away, and, finally, travel to Carlisle to reunite with, and ultimately retrieve, the lost children of their tribe.
Generations after Native American children were sent from their reservation homes across the
...20) TOTE_Grandfather
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2022.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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This film portrays an unexpected encounter between an old Tzotzil man, who is going blind, and his granddaughter, who does not remember her childhood well. The granddaughter, having grown up in the city estranged from her grandparents, returns to visit her grandfather’s village. While he weaves a traditional hat, the threads of family history unwind and are rewoven. In between silences and unspoken words, the renewed possibility of understanding...
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