Native American Heritage
A collection of films about Native Americans and First Nations peoples -- history, spirituality, and the struggle to defend the environment, protect their traditions and cultures, and address the challenges of the 21st century.
The Native American Heritage collection includes the following titles:
Examines the history of the US eugenics movement and its recent resurrection, which uses false scientific claims and holds that an all-powerful 'gene' determines who is worthy and who is not.
Indigenous activists in West Texas.
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?'
New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.
The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.
Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie.
Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.
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.
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.
Six brilliant researchers approach the mysteries of consciousness from radically different perspectives, from within and without.
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