Native American Indian Resources

From Academic Videos Online database:

• In beauty I walk : the Navajo way to harmony (2002): Set amid the stunning environs of Arizona's rugged Canyon de Chelly, this fascinating documentary explores traditional Navajo Indian spiritual practices and thought. 
• Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022): A provocative, visually stunning testament to a land and people who have survived removal, exploitation and genocide – and whose best days are yet to come.
• Learn About the Religious Practices of Native Americans (2018): A video describing Native American religion in the different culture areas.
• N. Scott Momaday: Words from a Bear (2018): When N. Scott Momaday won the 1969 Pulitzer Prize, it marked one of the first major acknowledgments of Native American literature and culture. Now, Momaday’s words come to life in this biography of a celebrated Native American storyteller.
• Our Fires Still Burn: The Native American Experience (2013): This exciting and compelling one hour documentary invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models living in the U.S. Midwest. 
• Oyate (2022): In 2016, the world turned its eyes to the people of Standing Rock as they formed a coalition of unprecedented magnitude to defend their land and water from the threat of the Dakota Access Pipeline. 
• Wilma Mankiller (2023): Wilma Mankiller, a Native American activist who became the first female chief of her tribe, dedicated her life to the Cherokee Nation and the expansion of Indigenous rights.
• Wind River (2012):  WIND RIVER is a modern-day story of cowboys and Indians. White ranchers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in central Wyoming are fighting to protect their long-held water rights for irrigated agriculture.

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• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007):  Based on a book that inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won.
• Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022): A provocative, visually stunning testament to a land and people who have survived removal, exploitation and genocide - and whose best days are yet to come. 
• The Last of the Mohicans (1999): The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.
• The Mission (2003): An epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield the Guarani South American Indian tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th-century colonial empires.
• My Name is Kahentiiosta (2015): This documentary short by Alanis Obomsawin tells the story of Kahentiiosta, a young Kahnawake Mohawk woman arrested after the Oka Crisis' 78-day armed standoff in 1990. 
• Oil on Ice (2004): A documentary connecting the fate of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to decisions America makes about energy policy, transportation choices, and other seemingly unrelated matters.
• The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy (2006): A look at the forced relocation of Cherokee tribes by the United States government from their ancestral homelands (throughout the South) to Indian Territory (in present-day Oklahoma) from 1838-1839.