Events for November 19, 2023

A celebratory 10-minute documentary on Musqueam weaver Debra Sparrow, her reclamation journey, her family, and her identity.

We explore how it was for our people to go through statehood, blood quantum, ANCSA, boarding schools, stripping our language and dance away, and all that has done to our mental health. With that, we try to have a hopeful spin on this narrative and show how resilient our people are.

A young boy uplifts his community with the powerful medicine in his voice.

Mary Jean Robertson has been a native voice on the airwaves in San Francisco for 50 years. Mary Jean shares why it is important for Native people to have space and how she works to amplify native voices through her radio show.

A Navajo man reflects on his cultural identity while interacting at the Bosque Redondo Memorial–a Navajo incarceration camp in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. David Henderson is a full blood Navajo man who was raised by a loving white family after his biological mother died giving birth to his younger brother. Even though raised in the... Read more »

In the heart of downtown Los Angeles (Gabrielino-Tongva land), “Letters to our Ancestors” details how American Indian and Alaska Native organizations are working to preserve and restore Indigenous cultural identity as the foundation of well-being and healthy development. We witness the amazing impact that Indigenous cultural values, customs and traditions have on the next generation... Read more »

It’s 1990. Benny is a Native American boy growing up in San Diego who plays with dolls and listens to Fleetwood Mac. Everything Benny thinks he knows about himself and his family is turned upside down when his parents force him to spend the summer at his Grandma Lorraine’s sheep ranch on the reservation in... Read more »

A group of Latinas come together to create a space of their own only to find they discover more about themselves.

An Indigenous college student who shows up at her best friend Molly's house for a study session turned Halloween house party of which Lucille wasn't aware. As she enters the house, Lucille sees the Deer Lady standing in the midst of the party, but she quickly vanishes. The Deer Lady warns Lucille of danger at... Read more »

Frank, a couple months sober, attends his friends going-away party.

An indigenous woman pitches her song, "Dear John" for the live action Pocahontas.

Tara is happy she can finally bring a Native boyfriend home to her family, only to find out the night before that he’s not really Native.

Stunning Hawai’i backdrops frame this touching drama about a Tongan brother and sister at rugby practice. Recovering from a recent injury and rejected from another University, Alofa is ready to give up. Meanwhile, her brother Malu races against time to encourage his sister and pass on valuable life lessons before it’s too late.

When Victoria, a young and immature artist, assumes guardianship of her little sister after the death of their mother, she must fend off a mysterious creature during a CPS visit or risk losing her sister forever.