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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The romance of a vanishing race includes three historic motion pictures of American Indians and their life-style in the early 1900s. Featuring tribal chiefs who participated in the Last great Indian council and several who fought at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Originally produced on 35mm film, this priceless footage, recently discovered within the lost treasures of the National Archives is re-mastered to include an original music score and...
22) Colonial America
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
How did the quest for Gold, God and Glory shape our country? What was at the heart of the tension between the colonists and the Powhatans? In what ways does our colonial heritage continue to shape the stories, art and culture of our modern world? All of that and pirates too!
Series
Reading rainbow volume 73
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A Native-American tale about a boy who becomes an artist and brings the colors of the sunset to earth. Artist Dominic Arquero talks about his heritage, painting sunsets, and how paints are made from earth elements. Dolly Naranjo, with her daughter and mother, show how they make traditional pottery. The Concha family prepare for and perform a traditional Pueblo dance.
25) Indian horse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A RIVER BETWEEN US documents the largest river restoration project in American history. Nearly three hundred miles in length, flowing from southern Oregon to northern California, the vast communities of the Klamath River have been feuding over its water for generations, and as a result, bad blood has polluted their river and their relationships equally. The film examines the complicated history of this conflict: how anger, fear and distrust have undermined...
28) Native America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ancient wisdom and modern science are combined to shed light on who were America's first people.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Pocahontas, the young daughter of Chief Powhatan, wonders what adventures await just around the riverbend. She is joined by her playful pals, raccoon Meeko and hummingbird Flit. A chance meeting with Captain Smith leads to a friendship that will change history, as the Native Americans and English settlers learn to live together.
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
This Native-directed series reveals the beauty and power of today's Indigenous communities. Smashing stereotypes, it follows the brilliant engineers, bold politicians, and cutting-edge artists who draw upon Native tradition to build a better 21st century. Each hour explores a core tenet of Native American heritage: the power of Indigenous design, how language and artistry fuel the soul, the diverse ways Native women lead, and the resilience of the...
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Explore the ways in which our government, economy, agriculture, medicine, language, and legal system have been influenced by Native American contributions. Explore your first impressions of the word "Indian", learn how the European settlers interacted with and ultimately destroyed many Native American cultures, discover Native American contributions to medicine, agriculture & the environment.
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
[Fullscreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Sam Sutter is the only one left who believes that his sister is still alive after her capture by the Indians, and against the wishes of his family he embarks on a search for her. He faces insurmountable odds and the dangers of the wilderness but perserverance leads him to his sister, now married to an Indian prince but condemned to die for a petty crime. Sam now must face the toughest and possibly the last battle of his life.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Return to Dodge-Ex-Marshall Matt Dillion is stabbed in a fight with a band of thieves. When word reached Miss Kitty, she returns to be by his side. However, danger strikes again as an old enemy is released from prison and to vows to settle the score.
The last Apache-Marshall Matt Dillion, now retired, is summonded to the ranch of a long-lost love, only to find it in smoldering ruins after an Apached raid. New he must save here from the fierce renegade...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Documentary designed to introduce audiences to the beauty, artistry, athleticism, competition and drama of dance as displayed by Native American tribes and nations. While having a powerful influence on US/Indian relationships, the dance demonstrates the ancient as well as the new struggles between intertribal cultures, progress, tradition, spirituality and commerce.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
[Fullscreen edition].
Language
English
Description
Three historic motion pictures of Native Americans and their life-style in the early 1900s. 1. The romance of a vanishing race: A view of Indian life in the west featuring Navajo, Pueblo, Crow, and Hopi tribes and reenactment of Indian battles on the plains, medicine men and ceremonies. 2. Rodman Wanamaker expedition of citizenship to the North American Indian: Carrying the flag and a message of hope to a vanishing race-- Dr. Joseph Dixon explains...
39) Billy Jack
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Billy Jack is a half-white Native American and ex-Green Beret who returns to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the progressive Freedom School and the idealist woman who runs it. When tensions flare between the students and the narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector. One again, violence finds him.
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