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4) Fry bread
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
An award-winning, evocative depiction of a modern Native American family that tells a tale of a family coming together to create a meaningful meal and new memories.
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.
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Over 90 percent of the available lands in the Greater Chaco region of the Southwest have already been leased for oil and gas extraction. Our Story documents the ongoing Indigenous-led work to protect the remaining lands that are untouched by oil and gas, as well as the health and well-being of communities surrounded by these extractive industries. Din ̌and Pueblo people directly impacted by oil and gas extraction in the Greater Chaco region have...
10) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
11) Duel at diablo
Series
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Meyer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A revenge-minded scout helps a cavalry troop transport guns and ammunitions through Indian territory.
12) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
13) Little big man
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
c1970
Language
English
Description
One hundred year-old white man recounts how he was raised by Native Americans, became a gunslinger, and survived the battle at Little Big Horn.
14) Broken arrow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
Publisher
Questar, Inc
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson - A raging storm maroons the close-knit Robinson family and a band of shipwrecked survivors on a remote desert island. Richard Thomas stars in this timeless saga.
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold - Julie (Suzanne Marie Doyon), a lonely fourteen-year-old, is in for the most amazing summer of her life when she finds an ancient coin on the beach and uncovers a local Native-American legend about a long-lost mountain...
Series
Shirley Temple collection volume 12
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Rescued by kindly mounted police officers after barely surviving an Indian attack on the Canadian frontier, orphan Susannah befriends the Mounties, especially Inspector Montague. Moreover, Susannah proves a capable negotiator between the tribes and the Mounties.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little Bear to life. They bond, embarking on an amazing adventure, until Omri's friend Patrick brings a 6-shooting cowboy to life and the secret is in danger of being revealed.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The American Buffalo delves into over 10,000 years of North American history, exploring the evolution and significance of buffalo to Native American people on the Great Plains and highlighting the near-extinction of the American buffalo, driven by factors such as the buffalo robe trade, westward expansion, diseases, and drought. The second episode follows a diverse group, including Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Goodnight, in their efforts to rescue...
20) Indian horse
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Saul Indian Horse, an Ojibway boy, is torn from his family and committed to a residential school. At the school, Saul is denied the freedom to speak his language or embrace his heritage and is a witness to abuse by the people sworn to protect him. But Saul finds salvation in the unlikeliest of places, the rink. His incredible hockey talents lead him away from the school to bigger and better opportunities, but no matter how far Saul goes, the ghosts...
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