The Native peoples of the American continent are a diverse population with varied histories and experiences. Explore aspects of these histories with documentaries from your Library.
Native America is back with season two. The series follows engineers, politicians, artists, and more who use Native traditions to build a better 21st century.
Native America is back with season two. The series follows engineers, politicians, artists, and more who use Native traditions to build a better 21st century.
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Native America is back with season two. The series follows engineers, politicians, artists, and more who use Native traditions to build a better 21st century.
Native America is back with season two. The series follows engineers, politicians, artists, and more who use Native traditions to build a better 21st century.
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In his latest outing, award-winning director Ken Burns explores 10,000 years of North American history, centered around the buffalo and its connection to ...Show more
In his latest outing, award-winning director Ken Burns explores 10,000 years of North American history, centered around the buffalo and its connection to multiple Native communities. Among those interviewed in the film are Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, Rosalyn LaPier, Germaine White, Dustin Tahmahkera, Dan Flores, Michelle Nijhuis, and more.
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In his latest outing, award-winning director Ken Burns explores 10,000 years of North American history, centered around the buffalo and its connection to ...Show more
In his latest outing, award-winning director Ken Burns explores 10,000 years of North American history, centered around the buffalo and its connection to multiple Native communities. Among those interviewed in the film are Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday, Rosalyn LaPier, Germaine White, Dustin Tahmahkera, Dan Flores, Michelle Nijhuis, and more.
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The deaths of a group of Native American women in rural Montana are the focus as Native families, journalists, and local law enforcement reveal a violent crisis set in motion almost 200 years ago. -IMBD
The deaths of a group of Native American women in rural Montana are the focus as Native families, journalists, and local law enforcement reveal a violent crisis set in motion almost 200 years ago. -IMBD
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The deaths of a group of Native American women in rural Montana are the focus as Native families, journalists, and local law enforcement reveal a violent crisis set in motion almost 200 years ago. -IMBD
The deaths of a group of Native American women in rural Montana are the focus as Native families, journalists, and local law enforcement reveal a violent crisis set in motion almost 200 years ago. -IMBD
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How much Native ancestry determines a modern person’s identity as Indigenous? Focusing on the explosion of questionable claims of Native status in Canada, this 2023 documentary won an award at the Canadian Screen Awards.
How much Native ancestry determines a modern person’s identity as Indigenous? Focusing on the explosion of questionable claims of Native status in Canada, this 2023 documentary won an award at the Canadian Screen Awards.
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How much Native ancestry determines a modern person’s identity as Indigenous? Focusing on the explosion of questionable claims of Native status in Canada, this 2023 documentary won an award at the Canadian Screen Awards.
How much Native ancestry determines a modern person’s identity as Indigenous? Focusing on the explosion of questionable claims of Native status in Canada, this 2023 documentary won an award at the Canadian Screen Awards.
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In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.
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In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.
In the wake of the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests, Indigenous people are using their newfound platform to shed light on the wide array of injustices committed against them to embark upon the process of decolonization.
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By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native A...Show more
By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native American state champions. By age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. 30 years after her tragic death, SuAnne's pride in her people continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to save their language and reclaim their culture.
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By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native A...Show more
By age 14, SuAnne Big Crow had become one of South Dakota's best basketball players, leading her Pine Ridge Lady Thorpes to become the first ever Native American state champions. By age 17, her social activism had made her a household name across the Great Plains. 30 years after her tragic death, SuAnne's pride in her people continues to galvanize the Lakota in their fight to save their language and reclaim their culture.
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Four modern documentary shorts are presented in this 2023 collection. It includes work by Jessie Adler, Preston Randolph, Ciara Lacy, Daniel Fradin, and Kyle Rosenbluth.
Four modern documentary shorts are presented in this 2023 collection. It includes work by Jessie Adler, Preston Randolph, Ciara Lacy, Daniel Fradin, and Kyle Rosenbluth.
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Four modern documentary shorts are presented in this 2023 collection. It includes work by Jessie Adler, Preston Randolph, Ciara Lacy, Daniel Fradin, and Kyle Rosenbluth.
Four modern documentary shorts are presented in this 2023 collection. It includes work by Jessie Adler, Preston Randolph, Ciara Lacy, Daniel Fradin, and Kyle Rosenbluth.
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‘The Warrior Tradition’ tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military.
‘The Warrior Tradition’ tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military.
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‘The Warrior Tradition’ tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military.
‘The Warrior Tradition’ tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military.
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Explore the world created by America's first peoples with this series reaching back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique sys...Show more
Explore the world created by America's first peoples with this series reaching back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
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Explore the world created by America's first peoples with this series reaching back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique sys...Show more
Explore the world created by America's first peoples with this series reaching back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
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Sherenté Mishitashin "Being Thunder" Harris, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges th...Show more
Sherenté Mishitashin "Being Thunder" Harris, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges the status quo of what it means to be a queer Indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
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Sherenté Mishitashin "Being Thunder" Harris, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges th...Show more
Sherenté Mishitashin "Being Thunder" Harris, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from the Narragansett tribe in Rhode Island, boldly challenges the status quo of what it means to be a queer Indigenous person in a world bound by binary gender roles.
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500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact. – provided by the publisher
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact. – provided by the publisher
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500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact. – provided by the publisher
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact. – provided by the publisher
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‘Home From School’ follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools,...Show more
‘Home From School’ follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who were shipped away, and, finally, travel to Carlisle to reunite with, and ultimately retrieve, the lost children of their tribe.
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‘Home From School’ follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools,...Show more
‘Home From School’ follows the difficult journey of Soldierwolf and tribal elders as they delve into the controversial history of Indian boarding schools, patch together the historic record and personal stories of the relatives who were shipped away, and, finally, travel to Carlisle to reunite with, and ultimately retrieve, the lost children of their tribe.
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Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. -films website
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. -films website
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Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. -films website
Gather is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. -films website
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