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2) Beans
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The story of the Oka Crisis, a 1990 land dispute between two Mohawk communities and government authorities in Québec which lasted seventy-eight days.
3) Thunderheart
Description
A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Description
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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