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Cutting between 1978 footage of his fellow Colorado River whitewater river guides - who lived a communal, often naked, live-in-the-moment existence - and the complex realities of their adulthood today. This piece travels the road from peyote to Prozac, creating a compelling portrait of cultural metamorphosis, as he revisits the friends who have come through the other side of their youth and into adulthood.
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"In the late 1960s veterans of the civil rights movement organized the Committee for Traditional Indian Land and Life in Los Angeles with the purpose of aiding American Indian people struggling for self-determination. One conflict continuing to this day is the resistance in northern Arizona by Hopi and Dineh traditionals against mining of coal on their sacred Black Mesa. The center of this opposition was and is the traditional Hopi village of Hotevilla,...
4) Flying boat
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In FLYING BOAT, a handful of pilots and mechanics are featured who have restored, flown, and maintained the last few airworthy examples of the flying boat, a magnificent aircraft from a long-lost era of adventure and romance. The aircraft featured were restored and brought back to flying condition after being decommissioned and sitting in neglect for decades in the Tucson, AZ desert known as the Boneyard. These aviators share a camaraderie and reflect...
8) Bisbee '17
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Radically combining collaborative documentary, western, and musical elements, the new film follows several members of a close-knit community as they attempt to reckon with their town₂s darkest hour. In 1917, nearly two-thousand immigrant miners, on strike for better wages and safer working conditions, were violently rounded up by their armed neighbors, herded onto cattle cars, shipped to the middle of the New Mexican desert, and left there to die....
10) Metal Road
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"For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family and the railroads through the lens of a Navajo trackman. The film follows three Navajo railroaders from the 9001 Heavy Steel Gang as they leave their homeland to replace aging railroad tracks from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean under extreme weather conditions."--Website.
13) Racing the rez
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Documentary about the competition between Navajo and Hopi high school cross-country runners in Northern Arizona.
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"Every Monday in the small community of Shiprock, New Mexico, a group of young Navajo leaders meet to decide how they will help their community. For over seven years, the Northern Dine Youth Committee has worked to give youth opportunities to directly make changes within their community. But while the NDYC works to make changes, many members also consider their own futures, commitments to family and the world outside of the Shiprock. While they love...
15) Broken rainbow
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Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
16) Beyond the mesas
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Tells of the forced removal of Hopi children to off-reservation boarding schools such as Sherman Institute in Riverside, California, and the Phoenix and Stewart Indian Schools. Topics covered include Hopi understanding of education, early government efforts to assimilate and acculturate Hopis, the Orabi split, Hopi language loss at American schools and the future of the Hopis. A number of historical photograhs of Hopi villages, Indian boarding schools,...
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