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Publisher
PBS
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.
22) Crooked arrows
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Former star lacrosse player Joe Logan agrees to coach a ragtag team of Native American lacrosse players who are long-time losers, despite lacrosse being a part of their tribal heritage for centuries.
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living in America. It wasn't exactly a 'New World,' but an old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals, and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors, and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals, and disease. Here is an exploration into...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Go west: Heeding Horace Greeley's expansionist call, a hapless young man heads west to meet his destiny in the ranchlands of Arizona where he befriends Brown Eyes, an affectionate bovine beauty from whose hoof he removes a pebble. Battling butler: A fragile young man is sent into the country by his father in hopes that his masculinity will blossom. There he is mistaken for a renowned prizefighter.
25) Thunderbird
Publisher
Syndicado
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A reclusive young fisherman goes looking for his missing sister in the rugged Pacific Northwest."--imdb.com.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Up heartbreak hill chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, New Mexico-Thomas, an elite runner; Tamara, an academic superstar; and Gabby, an aspiring photographer-as they navigate their senior year at a reservation high school. As graduation nears, they must decide whether or not to stay in their community-a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their beings-or leave in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere. Largely isolated...
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
With a history of feuding, the Franklin and Red Eagle families are well-known rivals in the lawless Western frontier. When disaster strikes, these two families will be forced to confront their many differences as lives hang in the balance.
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Hidden away in the canyons of a top-secret military base on the edge of the Mojave Desert is the largest concentration of rock art in North America. Created over thousands of years by a now vanished culture, it represents the oldest art in California. Talking Stone explores the remote canyons and the mysteries surrounding these amazing images.
30) Billy Jack
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Half-breed' Billy Jack, an ex-Green Beret, is driven to action when a desert school is victimized by thugs. Using his fists and his feet, he unleashes justice in a fast-kicking frenzy that made him an instant folk hero.
31) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While his tribe is ready to move on, little Sioux Yakari sets off for the unknown to follow the trail of Little Thunder, a mustang. Along the way, Yakari has a magical encounter with the Great Eagle, his totem animal, who gives him the gift of speaking with animals. All alone and for the first time, he embarks on an amazing adventure.
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2012]
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
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1621, Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags of New England negotiated a treaty with Pilgrim settlers. A half-century later, as a brutal war flared between the English and a confederation of Indians, this diplomatic gamble seemed to have been a grave miscalculation.
38) 6 generations
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Ernestine De Soto is a Chumash Native American whose mother Mary Yee was the last speaker of her native Barbareño language. In 6 generations, her family reaches back to the days the Spanish arrived in Santa Barbara and made first contact. Ernestine tells this history from the perspective of her female ancestors, making her a unique link with the past. Famous anthropologist John Peabody Harrington, whose work focused on native peoples of California,...
Publisher
Collective Eye Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Exploring the exploitation of Native American culture in sports, including the use of names and logos that have been adopted by teams and franchises with no apparent connection to the tribes and peoples whose cultures they are appropriating.
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