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November 2023
Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then
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.
Find out more »Chubby Cree: PiMahCiHoWin
A young boy uplifts his community with the powerful medicine in his voice.
Find out more »Broadcasting Native Voices: Mary Jean Robertson
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.
Find out more »Through My Eyes
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 Four Corners area of Northwest New Mexico and in close contact with his own people, he was not raised as a Navajo person. Upon visiting…
Find out more »Letters to our Ancestors
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 of children and youths growing up in a diverse urban community.
Find out more »Frybread Face and Me
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 Arizona. There he meets his cousin Dawn— AKA Frybread Face, a pudgy 11-year-old vagabond, tough-as-nails tomboy. Benny has never met anyone like her, and he…
Find out more »Nihtâwikihew / ᓂᐦᑖᐃᐧᑭᐦᐁᐤ / she gives birth
Sâkowêw is a young woman in a remote community who just wants to welcome her new baby safely into the world. She trusts Auntie Mary to honour her family’s traditions. When something goes wrong, she’s snatched from warmth and safety, and spirited away to a disorienting place she never wanted to go. Told from her perspective, Sâkowêw’s story of giving birth lays bare the anti-Indigenous racism entrenched in health systems across Canada. Through intimate conversations with family and harrowing experiences…
Find out more »Latina Book Club
A group of Latinas come together to create a space of their own only to find they discover more about themselves.
Find out more »Be Good, Stay Safe
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 the party and Lucille is forced to reckon with her own desire to get her work done while she tries to understand what the Deer…
Find out more »Temperance (A Virtue)
Frank, a couple months sober, attends his friends going-away party.
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