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The Docuseek Indigenous Studies Collection

Films from the Docuseek2 collection that cover the history, culture, and contemporary experience of indigenous people around the world. Films range from reports of initial contact between Europeans and Africans and South Americans to contemporary challenges of First Nations people to maintain their identity, spiruality and territorial claims.

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The Docuseek Indigenous Studies Collection collection includes the following titles:

A Massacre Foretold - imageA Massacre Foretold

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous people by paramilitary troops in Chiapas, Mexico.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption - imageA Place Between: The Story of an Adoption

A dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families for a cross-cultural adoptee.

National Film Board of Canada | 2007 | 75 minutes
A Wind of Change - imageA Wind of Change

Colombia is facing a complete energy transition; it wants to move away from coal and gas production and firmly embrace renewable energy sources, primarily wind energy. However, this transition is not without challenges.

Dutch CORE | 2023 | 30 minutes | College, Adults
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock - imageAWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock

Documents the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 89 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Aboriginal Architecture - imageAboriginal Architecture

New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 93 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Ama - imageAma

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
American Outrage - imageAmerican Outrage

Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Ancient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic - imageAncient Sea Peoples of the North Atlantic

A history of maritime adapted cultures of the North Atlantic Rim back to the Ice Age

Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 118 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Apache 8 - imageApache 8

A story of resilience, strength, and tradition, APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-female group of firefighters, who protect their reservation from fire and respond to wildfires around the station.

Women Make Movies | 2011 | 57 minutes
Atomic Bamboozle - imageAtomic Bamboozle

ATOMIC BAMBOOZLE follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant.

Collective Eye Films | 2023 | 46 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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