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The Indigenous Studies Collection

Films from the Docuseek2 collection that cover the history, culture, and contemporary experience of indigenous people around the world. Films range from reports of initial contact between Europeans and Africans and South Americans to contemporary challenges of First Nations people to maintain their identity, spiruality and territorial claims.

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The Indigenous Studies Collection includes the following titles:

Paulette - imagePaulette

PAULETTE follows the historic campaign of Paulette Jordan, the first Native American candidate — as well as the first woman — to win the Idaho Primary for Governor.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 18 minutes
Pilgrims and Tourists - imagePilgrims and Tourists

In the Altai Republic of Russia and in Northern California, indigenous shamans resist massive government projects that threaten nature and culture.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Profit and Loss - imageProfit and Loss

From Papua New Guinea to the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, native people fight the loss of land, water, and health to mining and oil industries.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Reflection: A Walk With Water - imageReflection: A Walk With Water

Reckoning with the reality of a changing climate, filmmaker Emmett Brennan walks 200 miles next to the Los Angeles aqueduct in search of a vision for humanity worth living for - what he discovers has everything to do with water.

Bullfrog Films | 2021 | 79 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child - imageRichard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child

The story of Richard Cardinal, a Métis child separated from his parents at four, and in and out of 28 foster homes, group homes and shelters before committing suicide at the age of 17.

National Film Board of Canada | 1986 | 29 minutes
Rocks at Whiskey Trench - imageRocks at Whiskey Trench

The story of the 1990 mob attack on a convoy of Mohawk women, children and elders.

National Film Board of Canada | 2000 | 106 minutes
Sacred Soil - imageSacred Soil

The Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation exhumes up to 1,000 bodies a year to identify them, and return the remains to their families.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 22 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT
Sisters Rising - imageSisters Rising

Native American survivors of sexual assault fight to restore personal and tribal sovereignty against the backdrop of an ongoing legacy of violent colonization.

Women Make Movies | 2020 | 59 minutes
Skydancer - imageSkydancer

Academy Award®-nominated director Katja Esson explores the colorful and at times tragic history of the Mohawk skywalkers, men who leave their families on the reservation to travel to NYC to work construction jobs.

Women Make Movies | 2012 | 75 minutes
Stolen Land - imageStolen Land

Illustrates the decades-long often violent resistance movement of the indigenous Nasa people of Colombia over rights to their native land.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 73 minutes | 8-12, COLLEGE, ADULT

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