Hakela: The Last One

Director :James M. Fortier   “Hakela: The Last One” chronicles the story of Lakota tribal member Calvin Spotted Elk, the great-great-grandson of the famed Lakota Chief Spotted Elk, erroneously know as “Big Foot,” who, along with over 300 members of his Minneconjou band were massacred at a place called Wounded …

Amazon

  Standing with Amazon’s Indigenous Peoples A new video posted by Amazon Watch on September 29, shares the fights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon regions in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. The video touches on all the threats that are affecting these indigenous communities from oil exploration to cattle grazing and deforestation. …

Mascots

Director: Scott Aaron Hartmann 22 minutes * United States * Narrative Short Mascots is a contemporary Native American story about a college student, who is part Native American, and his misguided journey to protest a distant university’s cartoonish use of Native American’s as a school Mascot which teaches him to understand that …

Run to the East

Director: Henry Lu 90 minutes * United States * Documentary Feature News headlines all over America reinforce negative stereotypes of Native Americans. They live and die as drug addicts, alcoholics, and victims of random acts of violence. In these societies defined by loss, a lack of infrastructure, substandard education, and …

Circle of Life

Director: Jessica Wilson 12:56 minutes * Southern Ute Nation/United States The Circle of Life film introduces museum visitors to Southern Ute values, culture and history in a visually complex HD film that is spread across seven screens, surrounding the viewer. ‘Circle’ is the primary film piece in the new Southern …

The Ute School Experience

Director: Jessica Wilson 08:58 minutes * Southern Ute Nation/United States The experiences of Ute children in government-run boarding schools in the nineteenth and twentieth were sometimes tragic; yet many Ute elders today have mixed memories and feelings for these institutions. This film explores those experiences and the way in which …

American Holocaust

The Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey

  Director: Mark Celletti 53 minutes * United States * Documentary Feature Canoe Way: The Sacred Journey vividly documents the revival of the culture and spirituality of Pacific Northwest Coast Tribes and First. Using traditional cedar dugout canoes, each summer they follow ancestral pathways – traveling hundreds of miles through …