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January 2017
"Native people came to cities looking for certain things that they needed-- not to become like everybody else." 
-- Donald L. Fixico, Ph.D. (Shawnee/Sac & Fox/Muscogee Creek/Seminole)
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Many know about the American Civil Rights Movement that came to national prominence in the mid-1950s but are unfamiliar with the civil rights struggles of Native Americans. For most Americans, the right to vote is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution; African Americans won the right to vote in 1870. However, the federal government denied Native Americans voting rights until 1924, and some states waited until the 1960s to extend this vital right. Find out more from our films about civil rights.  View Our Catalog

Looking Toward Home
 

This film shows how government relocation programs in the 1950s enticed significant numbers of Native Americans to leave the reservation for life in major cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. The life and times of urban Indians is shown primarily through the eyes of these individuals and subsequent generations as they maintain their tribal identity far away from the culturally nurturing climate of the reservation.
57 minutes 
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 Urban Rez 
Urban Rez explores the controversial legacy and modern day effects of the federal government's assimilation policies that relocated American Indians from reservations of urban areas in order to end the Indian Reservation system. Firsthand experiences richly illustrate the Voluntary Relocation Program, which constituted the greatest upheaval of the American Indian population during the 20th century, and how different generations from different tribes perceived their new urban landscape.
57 minutes
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Many Native American cultural traditions and myths are associated with winter. Experience adventures associated with Inuit sports that teach vital survival skills in the North, the trickster myths associated with two cultural groups, and the teenage security patrol in Canada.  View Our Catalog

  Harold of Orange 

This comedy explores the interaction of two cultural groups indigenous to Minnesota-- American Indians and philanthropic foundations. Poet Gerald Vizenor's screenplay draws on trickster myths common to many Indian tribes to create a contemporary satire which dispels many Hollywood stereotypes. The story involves trickster Harold and his scheme to obtain corporate funding for a chain of coffeehouses featuring reservation-grown "pinch bean" coffee.
27 minutes 
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Games of the North
For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for survival within the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral games evolved to strengthen mind, body and spirit within the community. Follow four modern Inuit athletes as they reveal their unique relationship to the games and compete across the North. As unprecedented change sweeps across their traditional lands, their stories illuminate the importance of the games today.
27 minutes
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Watchers of the North 

Watchers of the North follows the training, work and personal lives of Canadian Rangers, reservists in a unique branch of the Canadian Forces who patrol Canada's most remote and isolated regions.  Set in two Nunavut Inuit communities, the stories range from emotional search and rescue training with a very personal edge, to a routine skidoo security patrol that goes wrong, to the challenges that the teenage Junior Rangers face in a rapidly evolving community. Each episode weaves adventure, stunning scenery, Inuit traditions and a fascinating glimpse into an almost unknown branch of the military.
6 episodes: 27 minutes each  
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WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU?
  • Help others learn about Native American issues
  • Share the power of storytelling
  • Inform others about a new subject
  • Find like-minded people who share your interests
  • Potentially change lives
  • Meet new people and make new connections
  • Reach out to local non-profit partners
  • Meet local "experts" who could be on a panel or lead discussion afterward
  • Provide local press with an opportunity to cover your event/organization/cause

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