This May Be the Last Time
Jan 19, 2014 | IMDB 8
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Filmmaker Sterlin Harjo's Grandfather disappeared mysteriously in 1962. The community searching for him sang songs of encouragement that were passed down for generations. Harjo explores the origins of these songs as well as the violent history of his people.
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High Steel
INAATE/SE/
Daughter of a Lost Bird
American Interior
The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland
Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island
Two Spirits
Growing Native Alaska: People of the North
Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People
The Sacred Food
Halpate
Return: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health & Spirit
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
We Will Speak
The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na
Black Thoughts
The Shaman's Apprentice
To Save a Language
Pablo
Broken Rainbow
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High Steel
IMDB 6.7 | Jan , 1965
A dizzying view of Manhattan in the 1960s, the tallest town in the world, and the men who work cloud-high to keep it growing. They are the Mohawk Indians from Kahnawake, near Montréal, famed for their skill in erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers. The film shows their nimble work, high above the pavement, but there are also glimpses of the quieter community life of the old Kahnawake Reserve.INAATE/SE/
IMDB 4.5 | Feb , 2016
INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans. A kaleidoscopic experience blending documentary, narrative, and experimental forms, INAATE/SE/ transcends linear colonized history to explore how the prophecy resonates through the generations in their indigenous community within Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. With acute geographic specificity, and grand historical scope, the film fixes its lens between the sacred and the profane to pry open the construction of contemporary indigenous identity.Daughter of a Lost Bird
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2021
What does blood have to do with identity? Kendra Mylnechuk, an adult Native adoptee, born in 1980 at the cusp of the enactment of the Indian Child Welfare Act, is on a journey to reconnect with her birth family and discover her Lummi heritage.American Interior
IMDB 7 | Mar , 2014
Two men. Two quests. Two centuries apart. Four ways to experience the search for a lost tribe. Film. Book. Album. App.The Water Gap: Return to the Homeland
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2016
Three Lenape tribes send their youth to the Delaware Water Gap region to reconnect with their ancestral homelands.Growing Native Great Lakes: Turtle Island
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2018
The Great Lakes and connecting waterways have remained the center of traditional and contemporary economies for centuries. Meet the Ojibwe and a tribe that was relocated to this region—the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin who care for these lands. Natural resources are the Tribes’ main economy, including the famous Red Lake walleye and wild rice lakes.Two Spirits
IMDB 4.8 | Jun , 2009
Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that he 'bug-smashed a fag'. But Fred was part of an honored Navajo tradition - the 'nadleeh', or 'two-spirit', who possesses a balance of masculine and feminine traits.Growing Native Alaska: People of the North
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2018
All across Alaska, Native cultures have depended on the abundant natural resources found there to support their families, cultures and way of life. Now these resources are growing scarce, and the people who have relied on them for centuries have to find new ways to adapt.Growing Native Oklahoma: Red People
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2018
Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere will you find a more tragic history. Host Moses Brings Plenty (Oglala Lakota) guides this episode of Growing Native on a journey through Oklahoma’s past and present.The Sacred Food
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2007
A short documentary about the Ojibwe Native Americans of Northern Minnesota and the wild rice (Manoomin) they consider a sacred gift from the Creator. The film tells the Creation and Migration stories that are central to the tribe's oral history and belief system while showing the traditional process of hand-harvesting and parching the wild rice. Biotech companies are currently researching ways to genetically modify the rice and the community is fighting to keep it wild.Halpate
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2020
Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century. As the practice has changed over the years, Halpate profiles the hazards and history of the spectacle through the words of the tribe's alligator wrestlers themselves and what it has meant to their people's survival.Return: Native American Women Reclaim Foodways for Health & Spirit
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2019
Concerned about the declining health of people all around them, Native American women are sparking physical and spiritual rejuvenation through reclaiming traditional foodways.Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World
IMDB 7.7 | Jul , 2017
Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.We Will Speak
IMDB 10 | Mar , 2023
The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas have forced the Tri-Council of Cherokee tribes to declare a State of Emergency for the language in 2019. While there are 430,000 Cherokee citizens in the three federally recognized tribes, fewer than an estimated 2,000 fluent speakers remain—the majority of whom are elderly. The covid pandemic has unfortunately hastened the course. Language activists, artists, and the youth must now lead the charge of urgent radical revitalization efforts to help save the language from the brink of extinction.The Return of Nóouhàh-Toka’na
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2025
Nóouhàh-Toka’na, known as swift fox in English, once roamed the North American Great Plains from Canada to Texas. Like bison, pronghorn and other plains animals, Nóouhàh-Toka’na held cultural significance for the Native Americans who lived alongside them. But predator control programs in the mid-1900s reduced the foxes to just 10 percent of their native range. At the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana, members of the Aaniiih and Nakoda tribes are working with the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and other conservation partners to restore biodiversity and return Nóouhàh-Toka’na to the land.Black Thoughts
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 2020
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.The Shaman's Apprentice
IMDB 0 | May , 2001
Scientist Mark Plotkin races against time to save the ancient healing knowledge of Indian tribes from extinction.To Save a Language
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2020
Linguist Indrek Park has been working with Native American languages for over ten years. The film sees him recording the language of the Mandan tribe, who live in the prairies of North Dakota, on the banks of the Missouri River. The job involves a lot of responsibility, and he is running out of time – his language guide, the 84-year-old Edwin Benson, is the last native speaker of Mandan.Pablo
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2013
Documentary that follows Pablo, a man that used to live on the streets in BrazilBroken Rainbow
IMDB 5.7 | May , 1985
Documentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.