Six Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) share their voyages in and out of diaspora. Their collective moʻolelo (story) wades through hope, grief, wisdom, and the effects of the illegal occupation of their homeland. They share the pull they have felt to return to Hawaiʻi and ka ʻāʻumeʻume (the struggle) to stay.
Tar Creek, located in Northeastern Oklahoma, is one of the most heavily-polluted waterways in the United States. As a lifelong environmentalist, Cherokee Nation citizen Rebecca Jim has devoted her life to cleaning up Tar Creek by holding Cherokee values and her kinship with the land at the forefront of her battle to save our precious… Read more »
To help revitalize the Mohawk language, a local reservation radio station incorporates the Mohawk language into a game of Radio Bingo.
More Bounce documents three Samoan men as they retell their journey of being bouncers in Southern California. As the men reflect on their experiences, they recall the ways in which the job often confronted them with violence, but also made way for them to forge relationships with other Samoans on the job.
Meet Joe Pulliam, an Oglala Lakota Sioux artist living in Rapid City in the state of South Dakota. Father of 4, Joe Pulliam opened an art gallery exclusively with his work, painting on ledgers inspired by his culture and traditional life. This documentary tells his story, and his artistic journey from Pine Ridge reservation, to… Read more »
In this short documentary, award-winning indie filmmaker Mike J. Marin (Navajo/Laguna Pueblo/Washoe) invites us into his struggle with trauma and depression and how the growing art of action figure photography saved his life in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic and how this new medium continues to serve as an artistic and creative therapy.
Ella Mae Blackbear was named a Cherokee National Treasure in 1990 in basketry. We explore how her legacy lives on in the lives of those who knew her and others who are still studying her work today.
Meet Wa.Sta.Tse and her family! Within their Native American community, they do many things to care for and support each other in being healthy, relaxed, and centered. Staying healthy isn’t just about going to the doctor!
This is a story about Whirlwind Bull Yellow Bear, and his quest to reconnect young boys and girls to their indigenous roots of living off the land. While relearning what it is to be independent in today’s society of fast paced living and technology.
This film by Isaac Michael Ybarra (Tongva, Chumash, Chicano), juxtaposes visual themes of decolonial cultural preservation and urban/invasive infrastructure. Ooxono (From Here) is a short poem pushing back against the use of the term Urban Native within the context of Tovaangar (Los Angeles) and the erasure it creates against First Peoples. Ooxono (O’o-ha-ono) translates/refers to… Read more »
