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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:

In the Name of the Gene - imageIn the Name of the Gene

The story of the more than century-long myth of an all powerful "gene," and how this concept has been used as a social weapon to promote certain political agendas.

Bullfrog Films | 2025 | 52 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Hard to Swallow, Episode 1: THIS IS BLACK PEOPLE’S SHIT (Pilot) - imageHard to Swallow, Episode 1: THIS IS BLACK PEOPLE’S SHIT (Pilot)

Tunde reflects on the erasure of Black chefs from New Orleans’ food culture even as tourism and hospitality hold up the city’s economy.

Collective Eye Films | 2024 | 30 minutes | College, Adults
Song of Souls - imageSong of Souls

In Shan State, a region steeped in a rich cultural heritage that borders China, Laos and Thailand, folk singer Nan Mya Han is renowned for a mesmerising voice that has echoed across the lush and verdant countryside, captivating audiences for decades.

Collective Eye Films | 2023 | 72 minutes | College, Adults
The Weavers' Songs - imageThe Weavers' Songs

Weaving together the stories of three people from San Pedro Amuzgos in Oaxaca, Mexico, director Vásquez Bernabé explores the importance of carrying on traditions that are essential to a community’s survival.

EPF Media | 2024 | 77 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
The White Guard - imageThe White Guard

Reveals the violence orchestrated by multinational companies, organized crime, and the Mexican government to exploit Mexico's natural resources and gives voice to land defenders who risk their lives resisting this modern form of colonialism.

EPF Media | 2023 | 109 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Ways to Traverse a Territory - imageWays to Traverse a Territory

Indigenous Tsotsil women – shepherds and wool weavers – tend their sheep while honoring their land’s memory. The encounter with the filmmaker, in their ancestral mountains, reveals a longing to acknowledge different ways of inhabiting the same territory.

EPF Media | 2024 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
River of Toads - imageRiver of Toads

Healer Francisca Hernández comes from a lineage of midwives, bone setters, and exorcists devoted to healing in Veracruz. The film explores an annual ritual honoring Death, where spiritual traditions blend and evolve.

EPF Media | 2024 | 76 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Paty's Journey - imagePaty's Journey

Paty, an indigenous woman from Mexico who has been scarred by violence, embarks on a political journey with the goal of empowering the women in her community.

EPF Media | 2021 | 72 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
Behind the Smokescreen - imageBehind the Smokescreen

Delves into the environmental crisis in Bolivia, highlighting the struggles of indigenous communities, challenges faced by volunteer firefighters, and the complexities of slash-and-burn agriculture contributing to the ecological disaster.

EPF Media | 2024 | 29 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults
This Is Our Everything - imageThis Is Our Everything

The Guajajara people in Northern Brazil decide not to stand idly by while their land and that of the uncontacted Awá people is being destroyed.

EPF Media | 2023 | 81 minutes | 10-12, College, Adults

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