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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A documentary on cultural revival in Native American communities, the film focuses on youth empowerment and the value of traditional ceremonies and teachings and the impact these traditions are having on young native People. Co-produced with native cultural educator George Amiotte, this production is presented and spoken in the words of native spiritual leaders.
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Language
English
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"From Oklahoma to California, the many heroes of [this collection of short stories] ... are bound by a common desire for connection and safety--inside a nation in which they have always lived but do not entirely belong. A member of the Osage tribe, author Chelsea T. Hicks' stories are compelled by an overlooked diaspora happening inside the borders of the United States itself: that of young Native people. In stories like 'Superdrunk,' 'Tsexope,' and...
63) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
Series
Sun tracks volume 69
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Weeping Willow Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Second edition.
Language
English
Description
Rabbi Elijah Daniels is invited to a Native American sweat lodge ceremony, where he meets and befriends the leaders of the nearby Antchu community. When a spiritual elder confesses to the murder of his wife, the tribe asks the rabbi, who is also an attorney, to take his case. The rabbi's concern over the ethics of representing a confessed murderer fades when the evidence against the elder doesn't seem to add up. Something's amiss, and the rabbi finds...
69) Barking Water
Publisher
Lorber Films, Cinema Purgatorio
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A wonderful and liberating film about a dying Native American's final journey with a loving companion by his side.
72) Ishi's return
Publisher
Katahdin Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A short documentary about Ishi, billed in 1911 as the "last wild Indian" when he wandered out of the woods in Oroville, CA, and became a national sensation. When Ishi died, his brain was removed and sent to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Eighty years later, his descendants in California fight to have his remains repatriated to his ancestral home. Contrary to the master narrative that Indians would die off, the film shows how Native...
73) My powerful hair
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
After generations of short hair in her family, a little girl celebrates growing her hair long to connect to her culture and honor the strength and resilience of those who came before her.
74) Storyteller
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Language
English
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Storyteller blends original short stories and poetry influenced by the traditional oral tales that Leslie Marmon Silko heard growing up on the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico with autobiographical passages, folktales, family memories, and photographs. As she mixes traditional and Western literary genres, Silko examines themes of memory, alienation, power, and identity; communicates Native American notions regarding time, nature, and spirituality; and...
75) The painted drum
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Description
"Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well."— Washington Post Book World
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Black Indians: an American story" brings to light a forgotten part of Americans past - the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans. Narrated by James Earl Jones, "Black Indians: an American story" explores what brought the two groups together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today.
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Language
English
Description
A historical novel based on the life of Mary Rowlandson. Even before she was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, Mary Rowlandson sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader and made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger,...
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English
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The first novella recounts the story of Sarah, who is dragged to rural Montana by her neglectful parents and, at age 15, is the victim of a sexual assault that provides her with an undying thirst for revenge. The collection's second and strongest novella features a recurring Harrison character, Brown Dog, a half-Indian free spirit who cares for his ailing stepdaughter who is afflicted with fetal alcohol syndrome. The final piece presents Samuel, who...
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