A documentary about the teachings of the Salish Language on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Salish Language Documentary
Film Category: 2018
Koby Dale’s Creations
Koby Dale talks about his creative pursuits of fashion design and make-up artist with highlights of the Sherman Fashion Show and his struggles of growing up on the White Mountain Apache reservation.
Holy Angels
On the outskirts of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, stands Holy Angels Residential School, an ominous brick building, built in 1874. Using Holy Angels as a backdrop, filmmaker Jay Cardinal Villeneuve takes us on a healing journey that combines the stories of Elder Lena Wandering Spirit and the dance of Phoenix, a young girl who is the… Read more »
Harry Oosahwee, Speaking through Art
Art and language are integral parts of culture, and Harry Oosahwee is a Cherokee artist who shares his perspective on the intersection of the two.
An Ember of the Fire
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Our Tiospaye // Our Family
South Dakota’s reservations are too often defined by deficit narratives. Poverty, unemployment, substance abuse… these themes obscure the profound relationships and rich cultural legacies that are the heart of life in Indian country. This is the story of three Pine Ridge-bound educators who arrived with radically disparate perspectives on the place. Shaped by the contours… Read more »
Remediation
In 1959 Bill Reid created a documentary about an expedition to ‘salvage’ historic totem poles from a deserted village on Haida Gwaii. In response to this film, Haida carver Luke Parnell explores the implications of the removal of these cultural objects through a journey with one of his own totems. Eager to discover more regarding… Read more »
Laundry Day
A dream while you sleep can have a possible deeper meaning than you think at the time. JJ retells a dream her late grandmother had when she was young woman.
Sacred By Nature
The Blackfoot people attempt to revitalize a seemingly forgotten ceremony their ancestors once practiced.
Kommando 1944
July 1944, An Asian American soldier Corporal Soo is thrown into a Nazi work camp on a farm in Germany as his family back home in America are forced into an American Japanese concentration camp in Manzanar California. The allied soldiers think Soo is a Japanese soldier and segregate him. Soo must fight to let… Read more »