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Collection of films related to the Native American experience. Great Indian leaders & nations presents true stories of Chief Joseph, Crazy Horse, Quanah Parker, Geronimo, and the Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne tribes. Sacagawea offers a dramatic re-enactment of the Lewis and Clark expedition from the point of view of Sacagwea. Spirit bear is the insipring coming of age true story of the boywho saved the endangered Spirit Bears. The sign of the beaver is...
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"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...
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In World War II, code making and code breaking reached a feverish peak. The fabled Enigma cipher had been broken, and all sides were looking for a secure, reliable means of communication. Many have heard of the role of the Navajo Code Talkers, but less well-known are the Sioux Code Talkers, who used the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota dialects. The great-niece of John Bear King, who served in the First Cavalry as a Sioux Code Talker, Andrea Page explores...
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Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Native American nations that have inhabitated North America for over fifteen thousand years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.
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"This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a "colonial America," an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka H�am�al�ainen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. From the Iroquois...
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"Married to a white fur trader in 1872, a Crow Native woman has her journey to Saskatchewan interrupted when she steals two guns and saves five Nakota women who were kidnapped by drunken whiskey traders, setting off a culture war"--
In 1872, sixteen-year-old Goes First, a Crow Native woman, marries Abe Farwell, a white fur trader. He gives her the name Mary, and they set off on the long trip to his trading post in the Cypress Hills of Saskatchewan,...
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