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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:

Donna's Story - imageDonna's Story

An intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 51 minutes
Drowned Out - imageDrowned Out

An Indian family chooses to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 75 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Ella's Riot - Rahčan - imageElla's Riot - Rahčan

A young Sami singer and activist conquering screens and stages.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 72 minutes | College, Adults
Facing The Storm - imageFacing The Storm

An epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the bison, an iconic symbol of wild America.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 78 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Fevers - imageFevers

Dr. Maman moves freely between Western medicine and ancestral magical recipes. FEVERS is an unassuming film whose strength is the depth with which it observes this remarkable healer in action.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 43 minutes
Fight - imageFight

If you had to summarize Randy Baleski's philosophy, you could probably do it in three words: Boxing saves kids.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 45 minutes
Fire in the Andes - imageFire in the Andes

Tells the story of the conflict in Peru which left over 10,000 dead or 'disappeared.' through an investigation into the killings of eight journalists.

Icarus Films | 1985 | 35 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult
Fixing Food 2, Ep. 3: Native Roots - imageFixing Food 2, Ep. 3: Native Roots

As the first Native woman brewery owner in the U.S., Shyla Sheppard draws on her indigenous heritage to forge her own path in a white male-dominated industry.

Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 8 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Fixing Food 2, Ep. 4: Seeds of Resilience - imageFixing Food 2, Ep. 4: Seeds of Resilience

Explores the remarkable resilience of indigenous Mayan communities and their enduring connection to a crop the Spanish conquistadors tried to wipe out – amaranth - a tall, leafy grain long derided in the United States as “pigweed.”

Bullfrog Films | 2024 | 9 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults
Native Table - imageNative Table

Chef Sean Sherman worked for years in Italian, Spanish, Japanese and modern American restaurants. Then one day he realized his own heritage – Lakota Sioux – had a lot to teach him about foods that would nourish himself, his customers, and the Earth. Today, Sherman and his business partner Dana Thomson (Dakota) are exploring their Native cultural heritages by re-creating pre-colonial menus – meals that use no dairy, no wheat, no sugar.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 12 minutes | 7-12, College, Adults

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