Celebrate Sharing Native Stories this Winter with NAPT's Top 10 DVDs from 2011
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CHOCTAW CODE TALKERS
In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked by the government to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America's original Code Talkers.
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FOR THE RIGHTS OF ALL: ENDING JIM CROW IN ALASKA
In the Alaska Purchase of 1867, the United States took on more than just the land. There were Indigenous people living everywhere in Alaska. Like Native Americans in the lower 48, Alaska Natives struggled to keep their basic human rights, as well as protect their ancient ties to the land. The Bill of Rights did not apply to them. This is the story of Tlingit activist Elizabeth Peratrovich and her dramatic testimony on behalf of the Alaska Anti-Discrimination Act of 1945.
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WEAVING WORLDS
In this compelling and intimate portrait of economic and cultural survival through art, Navajo filmmaker Bennie Klain takes viewers into the world of contemporary Navajo weavers and their struggles for self-sufficiency. Highlighting untold stories and colorful characters involved in the making and selling of Navajo rugs, Weaving Worlds explores the lives of Navajo artisans and the Navajo concepts of kinship and reciprocity with the human and cultural connections to sheep, wool, water and the land.
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WAY OF THE WARRIOR
Exploring the warrior ethic among Native Americans, this documentary also reveals how Native communities have traditionally viewed their warriors and why, during the 20th century, Native men and women have signed up for military service at a rate three times higher than non-Indians. Dramatic historical footage, period photographs and sound effects create a portrait of not just the warrior, but the paradox of a warrior's motivations.
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GAMES OF THE NORTH: PLAYING FOR SURVIVAL
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. Following four modern Inuit athletes reveals their unique relationship to the games as they compete across the North. As unprecedented change sweeps across their traditional lands, their stories illuminate the importance of the games today.
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ALEUT STORY
In the turbulence of war, in a place where survival was just short of miraculous, the Aleuts of Alaska would redefine themselves and America. From indentured servitude and isolated internment camps, to Congress and the White House, this is the incredible story of the Aleuts' decades-long struggle for our nation's ideals. Narrated by Martin Sheen.
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JIM THORPE, THE WORLD'S GREATEST ATHLETE
A biography of the Native American athlete who became a sports icon in the first half of the 20th century. Beginning with Thorpe's boyhood in Indian Territory, the film chronicles his rise to athletic stardom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, winning two gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics, his fall from grace in the eyes of the amateur athletic establishment and his rebound in professional baseball and football. Thorpe retired from professional sports at the age of 41 just before the stock market crash of 1929 and would become a representative for Native Americans in the Hollywood landscape.
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STANDING BEAR'S FOOTSTEPs
In 1877, the Ponca people were exiled from their Nebraska homeland to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. To honor his dying son's last wish to be buried in his homeland, Chief Standing Bear set off on a grueling six-hundred-mile journey home. Captured en-route, Standing Bear sued a famous U.S. army general for his freedom--choosing to fight injustice not with weapons, but words.
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TO BROOKLYN & BACK: A MOHAWK JOURNEY
For over 50 years, the Kahnawake Mohawks of Quebec, Canada, occupied a ten-square block hub in the North Gowanus section of Brooklyn, which became known as Little Caughnawaga. The men, skilled ironworkers, came to New York in search of work and brought their wives, children and often, extended family with them. This is the personal story of Mohawk filmmaker Reaghan Tarbell from Kahnawake, Quebec, as she explores her roots and traces the connections of her family to the once legendary Mohawk community through the stories of the women who lived there.
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COLUMBUS DAY LEGACY
Since 1992, the Denver Italian-American community has proudly and publicly celebrated Columbus Day with a revived parade--long a part of the city's history--much to the dismay of the local American Indian Movement chapter who are equally determined to vilify the man credited with "discovering America." Both the Italian- and Native Americans are strong, vibrant, tight-knit communities--a point conveyed by the film as it uncovers conflicting notions of the freedom of speech, the interpretation of history and what it means to be an "American."
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