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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.

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The Native American Heritage collection includes the following titles:

A Dangerous Idea - imageA Dangerous Idea

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.

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 106 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adult
A Texas Myth - imageA Texas Myth

Indigenous activists in West Texas.

Collective Eye Films | 2019 | 79 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
America's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie - imageAmerica's Lost Landscape: The Tallgrass Prairie

Tells the story of one of the most astonishing alterations of nature, the North American tallgrass prairie.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 60 minutes | 6-12, 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
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
Aware - imageAware

Six brilliant researchers approach the mysteries of consciousness from radically different perspectives, from within and without.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 104 minutes

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