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TITLE Catalog of Programming 1993-94. INSTITUTION Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium, Lincoln, Neb. PUB DATE [93] NOTE 29p. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Bibliographies (131)

EDRS PRICE MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Alaska Natives; *American Indian Culture; *American Indian History; American Indians; Artists; Child Roaring; Cultural Education; Educational Television; Family Life; Filmographies; Mythology; Nonformal Education; *North American History; *Public Television; *Tribes; *Videotape Recordings IDENTIFIERS *Native Americans

ABSTRACT This catalog indexes and describes over 175 Native American programs produced for public television and available on video to public television stations, schools, libraries, and educational users. Introductory pages describe the development of the Native American Public Broadcasting Consortium and present brief biographies of nine Native American producers. An alphabetical index of program titles categorizes entries and indicates national or regional interest. Categories ark. arts, ceremony, children, economy, education, history, lifestyle, and multicultural relations. The entries are annotated and may indicate running time, year, and producer. Topics include Native American artists, Captain Richard Pratt and the Carlyle School for Indians, famous events and people in Indian/American history, oral tradition, history and culture of various tribes, North American archeology, religion and spirituality, myths and legends, efforts of the Oneida to take control of their children's education, cultural preservation and transmission to the next generation, ceremonies and rites of passage, the role and relevance of education in northern Canada, the 1992 White House Conference on Indian Education, tribal economic development, the success story of a Tohono O'odham high school,the revival of traditional Indian education, and stories that transmit beliefs and values. Includes an order form and 1993-94 price list for sales and rental. (SV)

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2 13Cti Cell AVAILABLE About the NAPBC For over 16 years, the Native American Public Broadcasting Crinsortium-(NAPBC) has been entrusted with the responsibility of bringing the voices and faces of Native America trithe Publk Broadcasting System. From its humble beginning as a Public Television program and station membership cirganilation, the NAPBC continues to add new MAIM AMEWAt PUBUCIIIIIWICAZINIGC. and exciting chapters to its remarkable success story. r

Partnerships The NAPBC was the first to co-produce .with Radio Smithsonian, an American Public CORPORATION The Corporation for Public Broadcasting SPIRITS 'Radio series entitled, "Spirits of the Present:' FOR PUBLIC has been an active, supportive NAPI3C part- ot TIMM Presented in 13 half hour segments, this series BROADCASTING ner since 1977. Additionally, the Nebraska broke all first-run carriage records in 1992. Educational TV and Radio Center has served The Ford Foundation, Ruth Mott Fund and as NAPBC headquarters for over 16 years. the Corporation for Public Broadcasting were funding partners in this highly successful pro- ject for national audience enjoyment. t.._X ..... Over the past 16 years that the NAPBC has been a fuming and program partner with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and public broadcasters, a library of authentic, culturally educational and entertaining pro- grams by and about Native Americans has In 1990, the Corporation for Public continued to grow. Currently, the NAPBC is Broadcasting offered the National Miriority the authoritative national resource, with over Consortiaof which the NAPBC is a 175 programs continually in distribution to memberthe opportunity to solicit program Public Television stations, schools, libraries development grants to independent and and educational users. station-based Native American producers. These grant funds help defray the costs associated with developing and producing Projects quality Native American programs. Since 1990, the NAPBC has funded 26 productions In 1981, the NAPBC was the first to do a which are as Illable in this catalog. planning study on satellite networking for Supporting the iToduction of Native Native American communities. In 1992, the American programming ;s just one example of NAPBC and Nebraska Educational Televi- how partnerships help to strengthen the AIHECsion assisted the American Indian Higher NAPBC's founding charter and mission, "To Education Consortium to identify and produce and encourage the production and develop the means for 27 tribally controlled successful use of quality public telecom- colleges throughout America to use telecom- munications programs by and about Native munications technology for shared learning. Americans, for both Native American and The result of this combined effort was a general audiences." report to Congress. You can be a partner, too, by becoming an NAPBC Member. With your membership, you will receive the NAPBC Newsletter, periodic mailings about exciting new pro- grams and other pertinent information. For details about NAPBC membership, call 800-793-4250.

AMERICAN Programming 1NDLNThe first Native American program pro- duced by the NAPBC to air nationally on PBS was the "American Indian Artist Series With support from the Corporation for II," in 1983. This past year, four programs AIROSPublic Broadcasting Radio Program Fund, the were nationally broadcast on PBS, all co- NAPBCin partnership with the Indigenous produced or funded by the NAPBC. These Communications Association of Native highly acclaimed programs were "In the American Public Radio Stationsis again White Man's Image," "Last Stand at Little Big taking advantage of satellite telecommunica- Horn," "Surviving Columbus" and tions technology. "American Indian Dance Theatre!' Represen- The "American Indian Radio on Satellite tative photos from these renowned programs Project" (AIROS) is a national program distri- appear on the cover of this catalog. bution service which will utilize the public radio satellite to bring more Native American voices to public auidences by 1996. This sytem will make it possible for 20 Native American 3 radio stations around the country to receive and distribute programming 24 hours a day. Potential Table of Contents As the NAPBC prepares to move forward Regional Map 2 into the 21st cenwry, the potential exists for Program Titles and Subject Index 3 an even greater commitment to support quality Native American programming. By Native American Producer Biographies. .. 7 taking advantage of evolving technologies Program Descriptions 9 including compressed audio and video, CD ROM, Interactive video, distant learning and Order Form (enclosed separately) satellite interfacing, the NAPBC is ideally Price List (enclosed separately) positioned to further its leadership role as the authoritative national resource for authentic, All Native American Public Broadcasting culturally educational and entertaining pro- Consortium titles are protected by interna- gramming by and about Native Americans. tional copyright law. It is illegal to attempt to reproduce, duplicate or record any NAPBC film or tape without written permission from the copyright holder. Purchase or rental does not include rights for subleasing, commercial distribution, television broadcast or electronic About the 1993-94 NA PBC Catalog transmission of any kind, or rights to copy or alter the film or, tape in whole or in part with- Paging through this edition of the out specific written consent from the Native NAPBC Programming Catalog, you will American Public Broadcasting Consortium. notice some new features have been added to assist you in selecting those Native American programs that best meet your particular needs or interests. An Order Form and Price List are enclosed. A Map On the Cover To help you localize your Native Gracing the cover of this catalog is an American programming, the NAPBC has interpretation of an origial petroglyph by included a map with numeriml designations. Native American artist Rick Regan..Also pic- Begin by finding your regional number on the tured are scenes from four programs which map. Then check the Indeg to find all thc pro- recently aired nationally on Pias. grams bearing that same number. This simple The top photo is from "Last Stand at Lit- procedure will provide you with a list of tle Bighorn"a documentary film re- Native American programs which will be of examining the battle from both the white and special interest to the-viewing audience in Native American perspective. your specific part of the country. Programs The middle left photo is froni"In the with national appeal are designated by the White Man's Image"a compelling story number 12. (See map on page 2.) detailing one man's civilizing mission and its devastating effect on a generation of Native Americans. The middle right photo is from "American Indian Dance Theatre: Dances For This symbol designates those programs The New Generation"this prestigious com- available for broadcast. If this symbol does pany of all-Native American dancers, singers not appear with the program's 'description, and musicians show how Native American no broadcast rights have been granted. music and dance is passed from generation to aeneration. The bottom photo is from "Surviving Columbus"a program focusing on the The NAPBC is pleased to be a sub- Pueblo cutlure that spans 2,000 years, as told distributor for a number of Native American by Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and programs from the PBS Video collection. This Arizona. symbol designates these fine programs. Highly acclaimed, these programs (exclucring "American Indian Dance Theatre" New Programs which will be available soon) are in this Several new programs are available and catalog. Order your copy today. have been identified. Native American Producers Once again, biographies of Native American producers have been included to acquaint you with some of the people whose work is available in this catalog.

Use this catalog often to select the Native American programs that best meet your par- ticular neeis or interests. And rest assured, each program you select is authentic and of 4 the highest quality. CANADA NEW ENGLAND

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Use this map to help select those Native American programswhich will be of particular interest to viewers in your region of the country These regional numbers correspond to the numbers listed inthe Program Titles and Subject Index. 1. NEW ENGLAND 7. PACIFIC 2. MIDDLE ATLANTIC 8. ALASKA 3. SOUTHEAST 9. HAWAII 4. MIDDLE WEST 10. CANADA 5. SOUTH CENTRAL 11. CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA 6. ROCKY MOUNTAIN 12. NATIONWIDE Program Titlesand Suty'ect Index

This symbol designates the programs available for broadcast. a g k This symbol designates the PBS video collection. V V. 0 `th' 4- I ...., _... 10- 129 S Aboriginal RIMts I Can Get it for You Wholesale 4 9 The Americaas ArtistPortrait of Bob Penn 9 The AmericaExperience Series (Series) tit} 6 9 Geronimond the Apache Resistance NEW 5 9 Indians, Outimes and Angie Debo NEW 9 In the Whit1Man's Image 12 6 9 Last StandIt Little Big Horn NEW 9 American IndIan ArtistsPart 1 (Series)9 5 & 7 6, Alan Houser & Fritz Soho ider 6 9 Charles Lolma & Helen Hardin 6 10 Medic/nu Fower and Lone Wolf & R.C, Gorman 10 American Indfan ArtistsPart 2 (Series) 6 10 #1 Larry Gofsh 6 10 #2 Jaune Qiiick-To-See Smith 6 10 #3 Dan Naniringha 4 10 Amlotte 5 & 11 10 IIII Ancient Spiri,Living WorldThe Oral Tradition iundred Years Later 8 10 Angoon One 6 10 1 Apache MouUM Spirits The Art of Being IndianFilmed Aspects of the 4 10 I Culture of the Sioux 6 10* 111 Bob Haozous' Native American SculptorNEW 5 10 III Broken Journey 10 11 III Canada's Orifinal PeopleThen and Now 11 e Children of the Long-Beaked Bird 6 4 11 Dancing to Glve Thanks dB DinehThemph) 6 11 I 11 - 1211 I 111 Distant VoiceI... Thunder Words 6 11 The Eagle anI the Condor 11 5 Earthshapers 4 11 Excavation ofMound 7 - 8 1/* Eyes of the S*it 5 7; Folklore of th1 Muscogee (Creek) People 12 Forest Spirits(Series) 2 & 412 #1 To Keepi Heritage Alive 2 & 412 #2 The Learning Path 2 & 4 12 #3 Land isifs 2 & 412 I #4 Ancestors of Those Yet Unborn 2 & 412 #5 Living wrth Tradition 2 & 412 #6 Dream*s with PoworPart 1 2 & 4 12 #7 Dreames with PowerPart 2 I I J l / Forgotten Frontier 6 12 ' i Four CornePs of Earth 3 12 Gannagaro 2 /2 111 Gifts of Santa Fe 6 13 The Good lvfind 5 13 Grandfather Sky NEW 6 13 leHealth Car1Crisis at Rosebud 4 13 Herman Rei:1 ElkA Sioux Indian Artist 4 13 HisatsinomThe Ancient Ones 6 13 13 The Honourof All (Series) #1 The Hmour of AllPart 1 10 13 #2 The Hmour of AllPart 2 10 13 #3 Sharig Innovations that Work 10 13 HuteetlKwukon Memorial Potlatch 8 13 O I Am DiffereInt from My BrotherDakota Name-Giving 4 13 !magas of Ia?diens (Series) 14 #1 The Gvat Movie Massacre 12 14 #2 Heathen injuns and the Hollywood Gospel 12 14 #3 Howbilywood Wins the West 12 14 #4 The Movie Reel Indians 12 14 #5 Warpsint and Wigs 72 14 Indian Artsat the Phoenix Heard Museum (Series) 14 #1 Basketry 6 /4 #2 Paintiig 6 14 6 /4 #3 PottsV 6 14 #4 Textilps #5 Jewel7 6 14 #6 Kachllas 6 15 in the Whit) Man's image 12 15 Will FightNo More Forever 6 15 III John Kimell 10 15 Journey tothe SkyA History of the AlabamaCoushatta Indians 5 15 Keep Yourlead Strong 4 15 Last Standst Little Big Horn NEW* 6 15 2 15 5 Legacyin Limbo 4 15 Live and Rmember Man of Ligliitning 3 15 MenomineI 4 15 Minorities In AgricultureThe Winnebago 4 16 Miss IndialAmerica 12 16 Ili Mother Con 6 16 Myths andWoundbuilders NEW * 11 &1216 Nations WiItin a Nation 12 16 II Native Amflow Images 5 16 Navajo 6 /6 aNavajo Co!e Talkers 6 16 1 16 The Newtquot: A Tribal Portrait 6 16 °Vision: Michael Naranjo NEW II A N 5 NeztrcePortralt of a Pimple 6 17 * ONI'bthasks of theUmonhon(Series) 17 4 17 #1timing of the Child/30 c 0 oj

Q.1 .0) 6.0 43" --. I .44 K4 I #2 Becominga Warrior/30 4 17 #3 The Buffet) Hunt/30 4 17 North of 60-0%tiny Uncertain (Series) 17 #1 They Camr to Stay 8 17 to #2 The AlaskI Experience 8 17 #3 Tell Me Who lAm 8 17 #4 New Waysof Knowing 8 17 #5 Mendingcrciles and Souls , 8 17 One Heart, Many Nations NEW 12 17 1,000 Years of illluscogee (Creek) Art 3 & 517 e 111 On the Path to41f-Rellance 3 18 O Oscar HoweThe Sioux Painter 4 18 People of the Frst Light (Series) 18 #1 Indians inSouthern New England 1 18 #2 The Wamanoags of Gay Head 1 18 #3 The Bostoh Indian Community 1 18 lansetts 1 18 #4 The Narra 5 a #5 Indians ofConnecticut 1 18 #6 The India'ExperienceUrban and Rural 1 18 #7 The Mashme Wampanoags 1 18 People of theecon Plateau 3 18 , Diver to Win NEW 6 18 111 Pride and the 0 5 Pride, Purposeand PromisePalutes of the Southwest 6 18 The Probableeasing of Elk Creek (available to NAPBC members only) 7 19 1111 Pueblo Peopleu "First Encounters" 6 19 19 5 The Real PeopiEI (Series) 5 #1 A Season)f Grandmothers 12 19 #2 Circle of SongPart 1 12 19 #3 Circle of SongPart 2 12 19 12 19 #4 Mainstrea,r) 12 19 5 #5 Awakenin1 #6 Spirit of ta Wind 12 19 #7 Buffalo, B'ood, Salmon and Roots 12 19 * #8 Legend ofthe Stick Game 12 19 #9 Words ofAPeople of Rivers 12 19 Red RoadToard the Techno-Tribal 11 & 1219 S MI Return of the RwenThe Edison Chiloquin Story 7 19 Return of the Stcred Pole 4 20 Roanoak (Series)9 20 Part 1 NEW 3 20 3 20 Part 2 NEW 5 Part 3 NEW 3 20 4 20 S * The Runaway e aSacred BuffaloPeople NEW 4 20 3 Seasons of a Nwajo V 6 20 Songs in MintoLife 8 20 The Spirit of Cray Horse NEW9 4 20 aStrength of LitKnokovtee Scott 5 201 The Sun Oagger 6 20 Surviving Colurams: The Story of the Pueblo People NEW4) 6 21 Tales of WesakIchak (Series) 21 #1 The Creston of the World 10 21 8 u.1 LIflIll I #2 The First Spring Flood 10 21 #3 Why theCrow is Black 10 21 #4 Wapoose the Rabbit 10 21 #5 Ayekis the Frog 10 21 #6 How thr Fox Earned His Name 10 21 #7 Wesakechak and the Medicine 10 21 #8 The Stome and the Mouse 10 21 #9 Why Beas Have Stingers 10 21 21 #10 Wesakpchak and the First Indian People 10 #1/ Wesakrchak and the Whiskey Jack 10 _21 #12 Why thet Rabbit Turin White 10 21 #13 The CrDation of the Moon 10 21 That One Gocod SpiritAn Indian Christmas Story 6 21 They Neversked Our Fathers 8 21 a Tomorrow'sfesterday 6 22- 22 The Treaty of1868 (Series) . 22 #1 The Treoty of 1868 4 22 * #2 The Black Hills Claim 4 22 The Trial of Stending Bear 4 & 5 22 Tribal Legacies (Series) IC . 11 22 I The IncasNEW 11 22 The MayaNEW 22 Surviving.'olumbus: The Story of the Pueblo People NEW 6 * Last Standat Little Big Horn NEW 4 22 . a Turtle Shells 5 22 Walking WitrGrandfather (Series) 22 #1 The Arr'Ifni 10 23 , 10 23 1 #2 The Woods 10 23 #3 The Mountain ,_ 10 23 #4 The Valfey #5 The StrNM 10,23 10 23 #6 The Gifr I Warriors 12 24 1 a We Are One'Series) 24 24 #1 Mornin7 Comes 4 #2 Learning From Others 4 24 24 #3 TUrninof the Child/20 4 #4 Storytefling 4 24 24 #5 Becomfng a Warrior/20 4 #6 Preparing for the Summer Hunt 24 4 25 #7 The Da'0 4 25 #8 The Burtato Hunt/20 Whispers (Siries) 25 Whispers:The Chumash :JEW 7 25 25 Whispers:The Gabrielino/Tongva NIEW 7 4 25 3 White Man'sWay Winds of Chinge (Series)V 25 25 * 3 A Matter of Promises 21EW 12 25 3 A Matter of Choice HEW 12 ?JEW 6 25 Wipingthe Tears of Seven Generations 3 3 Woons30 (Education and the Sioux) 4 25 9 Producers

TheNative American Phil Lucas Alexis Isaac Gary RobInsun Alaskan native. Has 20 41; r Public Broadcasting years of television experience. Consortiumproudly intm- Isaac, TV Production Manager at KYUK-TV in Bethel, is cur- duces the Native Producers 4 rently the only Yup'ik video whose programs are featured v producer working in Alaska. Fluent in his native language, our catalog. Isaac began producing As our catalog continues documentaries about the tradi- tional culture and lifestyle of to grow yearlso will the his people in 1980. Isaac has number of Native producers. earned international merit for several other productions, Along with the NAPBC these which have been screened at producers are working to the National Museum of the American Indian in New York; bring new visud perspectives Arizona native. Member of the Museum of Man in Paris; Texas native. Member of from their communities, and the Choctaw Tribe. Currently the 2nd Annual International the Cherokee Nation and the an independent producer and Arctic Film Festival in Ron- Mississippi Choctaw Nation. to increase the Quality and owner of Phil Lucas Produc- vaniemi, Finland and at the tions, Inc. in Santa Fe, New Currently working as an inde- Quantityof programming Mexico. Lucas has been in the University of Montreal. pendent producer. Robinson has been in the business of for all audiences. business of documentary pro- PROGRAMS: duction for the past 21 years video and documentary pro- and has established an impres- Eyes of the Spirit duction for 22 years. He has sive reputation as a filmmaker They Never Asked Our spent most of his career of quality productions that Fathers devoted to cultural and educa- effect social change. As an inde- tional programs. In his effort to pendent producer, he has pro- preserve the rich heritage of his duced and directed more than 35 cultural and educational Aboriginal people, he started programs. He will direct the videotaping the Creek Nation second segment of the Turner people and ceremonies in 1981. Broadcasting documentary, "Native Americans. Behind PROGRAMS: the Legend. Beyond the Myths." Broken Journey He also co-produced TNT's Folklore of the Muscogee "The Broken Chain." (Creek) People PROGRAMS: 1,000 Years of Muscogee Winds of Change: A Matter of (Creek) Art Promises. Turtle Shells Walking With Grandfather Series The Honour of All - Part 1 The Honour of All - Part 2 Sharing Innovations that Work Nez Perce: Portrait of a People Images of Indian Series I 0 Larry Cesspooch Matthew Jones Carol Patton Corns Ilk George N. Burden Utah native. Member of Oklahoma native. Member the Ute Indian Tribe. Cur- of the Cherokee Tribe of rently Director Ute Tribe Oklahoma. Currently Senior Public Relations and Audio/ Producer/Director for Visual Department. Cesspooch WDCN.TV. Cornsilk has been has been producing cultural in the film and television pro- programs for 19 years. For the duction business for 13 years. past 13 years he has been She has produced and directed involved in the cultural preser- many national television pro- vation projects of the Ute grams. During her tenure in Tribe. the production business, Ms. Cornsilk has been given PROGRAMS: recognition for her work by That One Good Spirit - An national Film and Video Indian Christmas Story Festivals and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Oklahoma native. Member Montana native. Member of the Kiowa and Otoe- PROGRAMS: of the Blackfeet Tribe. Cur- Anna Romero Missouria Tribes of Native American Images rently an Independent Film- Oklahoma.Currently Acquisi- maken Burdeau has been in the Nebraska native. Member tion and Sales Specialist for the business of filmmaking for 21 of the Winnebago Tribe. Cur- Native American Public years and has established an rently an Independent Asso- Broadcasting Consortium. George Angelo, Jr. impressive reputation as a film- ciate Producer, Ms. Romero Jones has been producing maker of quality productions. California native. Member has just completed work on cultural programs in Theatre, Mr. Burdeau has produced, of the Chumash/Yaci Tribes. "In The White Man's Image," Commercial Television and directed and written numerous Currently working as an which aired nationally on PBS' Public Television for 21 years. programsior Public Televi4:on, American Experience series. independent producer. Owner Commercial Television and Ms. Rornem has 7 years experi- PROGRAMS: of Angelo & Angelo with his Cable. ence producing for both televi- In The White Man's Image wife Vicki, who is his co- sion and radio. producer on projects. The PROGRAMS: Angclos have gained recogni- Pueblo Peoples "First PROGRAMS: tion as successful video makers Encounters" In The White Man's Image with over 10 years of experi- Forest Spirit Series ence. Their current project "Whispers," a five part series, The Real People Series portrays cultural survival amongst indigenous Southern California Indian com- munities. PROGRAMS: The Chumash The Gabrielino/Tongva The Programs

Aboriginal Rights The American Experience In the White Man's Image I Can Get It for You WholesaleSeries 9 Length: 51:221991 Produced by: Native American Length: 60:001976 Last Stand at the Little Big Horn Public Broadcasting Consortium N vit Length: 60:00 Produced by: TV Ontario and Nebraska Educational The concept of aboriginal Gerenime and the Apache Television A documentary that examines rights is not new. It has, at various Resistance In 1875, Captain Richard Pratt one of the most popular stories in American history, the Battle of the times, been debated, recognized, Length: 60:00 escorted 72 Indian warriors sus- and igr wed since the turn of the Little Big Horn, from the multiple It was said that Geronimo had pected of murdering white settlers sixceenc century. perspectives of the differvnt magical powers. He could see into to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Histi. -lea] photographs and Florida. Once there, Pratt began peoples who fought there. THE the future, walk without foot- LAST STAND will go on to on-site footage trace the history of prints and even hold off the dawn an ambitious experiment which aboriginal rights in North explore what happened after the to protect his own. That is how involved teaching the Indians to America, from Mexico to Canada, battle. You will see how thi,_ Apache Indian warrior led his read and write English, putting from Spanish conquest to Modern American culture turned this band of 37 followers to defy federal them in uniforms, and drilling times. This well-paced documen- battle into a mythic moment authority for more than 25 years. them like soldiers. "Kill the Indian tary explores European immigra- in American history. In 1886, the U.S. government and save the man," was Pratt's tion from an economic perspective mobilized 5,000 menone-quarter motto. and examines the differences be- of the entire U.S. Armyto cap- With the blessing of Congress, American Indian Artists tween European and Native ture Geronimo. This program por- Pratt expanded his program by Part 1A Series lb 9) American values and attitudes trays 19th century life in the establishing the Carlisle School for toward ownership of the land. southwest aid highlights the clash Indian Students to continue his Allen Houser-8f Fritz Scholder Other topics include the Black of cultures and the wrenching "civilizing" mission. Although Length: 60:00 Hills land dispute and how the transformation of an Indian liberal policy for the times, Pratt's AChiricahua-Apache, Allen land grab was handled in the U.S. society faced with the loss of its school was a form of cultural Houser creates stone, wood and and Canada. land and traditions. genocide. Native Americans who bronze homages to the American The American as Artist attended the schools help tell the Indian. As he works, Houser talks story of a humanist experiment Portrait of Bob Penn of his personal life and beliefs and I. gone bad, and its consequences ,Jr explains how his heritage has con- Length: 29:001976 a Indians, Outlaws aod Angle Cebu a generation of Indians. tributed to his work. Produced by: South Dakota ETV In the second half of this pro- Length: 60:00 gram, Fritz Scholder, a California "I am a painter first and an Angie Debo's meticulous Indian second .. ." Native mission Indian, creates prints and reseaxch of Oklahoma history paintings that depict the modern American actist Bob Penn aptly brought her to a disturbing describes the dilemma of many Indian caught between ancient discovery: the five civilized Indian tradition and today's society. American artists. Penn approaches tribes of Oklahoma were the vic- each of his paintings as an tims of a complex swindle. Major Charles Wenn & Helen Hardin inquisitive student. He thrives on political figures had robbed and Length: 60:00 innovation and experimentation, even murdered Indians who held not only in the media he chooses ,A4 The world famous Hopi oil-rich land. Banned from jeweler Charles Loloma displays for painting, etching, and sculp- publication, Debo was shunned as ture, but also in the tools he uses. some of his work and discusses his a troublemaker and forced into heritage in the first half of this Penn discusses the effect of his obscurity until Princeton Univer- life experiences on his search for video. His interests inside and out- sity published her book in 1950. side the reservation are revealed in the truth within his painting. In Today, her nine books serve as addition, he offers his insights into his art which uses only materials a cornerstone of American Indian indigenous to his homeland; iron- the essence of being an artist and a scholarship and her research is fre- Native American in the United wood, ivory, coral, turquoise, lapis quently cited as evidence in lazuli and shell. States. present-day federal court cases In The White Man's Image The second half of this pro- involving tribal sovereignty and gram explores Helen land rights. This program outlines Hardin's attempts to Debo's heroic life and her unique integrate the Indian experience. Produced by Barbara and artist parts of Abrash and Martha Sandlin, 1988. 12 herself, painting sophisticated and colorful the ways his Indian heritage and this program culminate in a por- The film is illustrated with geometric patterns and traditional his family have influenced his trait of oral tradition, of how it paintings and sketches by George Indian motifs of dancers, deer, the work. works, or where it leads. Catlin, Seth Eastman, and Karl sun and seasons. Bodner; photography by Edward Jaune Ouick:roSee Smith Angoon One Hundred Years Curtis, Stanley Morrow, and the Medicine Flower and Lone Wolf Length: 30:63 Later St. Francis Mission; and contem- & R.C. Gorman Jaune, a Shoshone French Length: 29:401982 porary paintings by the Sioux Length: 60:00 Cree painter, discusses her abstract Produced by: KTOO-TV artist Bob Penn. The first half of this video pro- paintings, which depict her Indian The film also considers the heritage with scenes of early plains On October 26, 1882, U.S. files artists Grace Medicine Flower present status of the Sioux and lifestyles. Naval forces destroyed the Tlingit and her brother Joseph Lonewolf, their hopes for the future. It During a visit to her Flathead Indian village of Angoon, Alaska. potters from Santa Clara Pueblo in underscores the Sioux belief that New Mexico. Medicine Flower Reservation home in Montana, This documentary explores that everyone is skilled in the art of and Lone Wolf have revived and Jaune explains her feelings about tragic event through the pageantry being fully human. extended the traditional forms and her people and her own Indian and oratory of commemorative techniques of their pre-Columbian upbringing. She reveals herself as ceremonies held 100 years later. ancestors in their work. an artist who happens to bc Indian The 1982 commemoration is a N E W In the second half of the video, and who draws on this heritage in testimonial to the Tlingit culture her work. that survived the attack. The viewers meet R.C. Gorman, a Bob Haozous: Native Navajo painter and printmaker at Tlingit remember the destruction Dan Namingha work in his Taos, New Mexico, of Angoon's great tribal houses, American Sculptor studio, completing one of a suite Length: 28:30 the loss of canoes, food supplies, Length: 30:00 of paintings dedicated to the Dan Namingha is one of and ceremonial objects, and the Soft-spoken Bob Haozous lets Navajo woman, his primary today's most important and deaths of six children. This public his works speak for him. Haozous' tribute, to their ancestors who suf- subject. widely collected artists. A sculptures emit a sense of warmth Hopi/Tewa, he has devoted the fered and those who survived to as well as the artists's sense of last thirteen years of his life to his rebuild the village, help the Tlingit American Indian Artists humor and his Native American Part 2A Series art and cultural heritage. put down their burden of grief. This program was shot on This program provides a uni- culture. He often employs 1984 location in New Mexico. It focuses que view of the history and rich animals, modern inventions like Produced by: Native American on the combination of color, tex- culture of the Tlingit Indians, airplanes, and the "Mother Earth" Public Broadcasting Consortium ture, and style inherent in while it tells a sad, unresolved motif to show the relationship This series of three programs Namingha's work. His major story not usually included in our between natural and technological continues "American Indian influence is quite simply the land. history books. Filmed on location, forces. But in his works with ArtistsPart 1." The film captures Namingha at this well-narrated documentary is environmental themes, Haozous work and conveys the energy and enhanced by the use of historical doesn't point a finger of blame for Program 1:Larry Golsh movement he achieves in a wide photographs. Program 2:Jaunt Quick-To-See the desecration of the earthhe range of styles and media. admits participation in the pollu- Smith Apache Mountain Spirits Program 3:Dan Namingha tion process. Amlotte Length: 58:521985 Length: 29:001976 Produced by: Slivercloud Video Broken Journey Produced by: South Dakota EIV Productions Length: 27:27 This film explores talented a Confused and unsure of him- Produced by: Gary Robinson, Sioux painter Arthur Amiotte's self, Robert has left school and art and the reasons for returning to taken up with bad companyhe Creek Nation Communications his native culture and religion. His seems to be headed for trouble. This sobering documentary initial paintings were abstract and But the Gaan, Apache Mountain looks at alcohol the disease. For flat. His later work demonstrates a Spirits, are touching Robert. He most people, alcohol is part of the great awareness of texture. will be tested. Will he use the celebration of life: We toast With the help of a medicine power within him for good? friends, anniversaries and births. man, Amiotte learns to gather and Apache Mountain Spirits is a And yet 90% of all physical use perceptions from his child- modern day story interwoven assaults, half of all homicides and a hoodto transfer them and his art with ancient Apache mythology. quarter of suicides in America are into new forms. Through intense The spirit world beacons Robert related to alcohol. use of texture and color, Amiotte to explore his ancestral teachings The producer has taken a creates visionary landscapes and and Robert finds strength when he demonstrates his feeling for the allows the spirit world to direct his unique approach. His method was land. present day. not to rely on an array of statistics, but simply to let people tell their American Indian Artists II profiles one of today's most important and widely Ancient Spirit, Living Word: The Art of Being Indian: stories. And they do with remark- collected artists in "Lany Golsh." The Oral Tradition Filmed Aspects of the able candor and poignancy Per- Length: 57:40 1983 Culture of the Sioux sonal stories of Native American Larry Golsh inmates, men and women, who Produced by: KBDI:TV Length: 29:151976 Length: 28:55 a have been incarcerated because of This film profiles Larry The traditional knowledge of Produced by: South DakotaETV alcohol related problems. A pro- Native Americans spans hundreds Golsh's artistry in gold and "The Art of Being Indian" gram that is designed to provide of generations. Passed by word of precious stones. A Pala Mission presents an overview of the serious discussion of this deadly Indian jeweler, Larry mouth from generation to genera- cultural heritage of the Sioux from disease and taigeted for Native talks about himself as tion, oral tradition is both a link to their early days in the north- American youth. This program an artist and as an the past and a key to the future. eastern part of the country, to has unusual intensity and depth Indian in the art The presentations and opinions of their "Golden Age" of adaptation world. He discusses the Native Americans featured in to the plains of the Dakotas. of feeling. Canada's Original Peoples: traditional and fancy dancing are the roles oral tradition play in the trade center where corn, cotton, blankets and salt were traded for Then and Now performed by dancers clad in tradi- development of cultures and tional regalia. societies. Storytellers such as buffalo hides between the Pueblo Length: 20:001977 Felipe Molina, Matt Jones and and Plains Indians. Through the Produced by: TV Ontario Dineh: The People Oyekan Owomoyela discuss the reading of murals, piecing together bits of pottety and ceramics, and This two part program con- Length: 77:001976 nature of storytelling and its place trasts the life of native Canadians in society. uncovering 513 burials, archae- Produced by: Tirr3las Film The role oral tradition plays in ologists traced the lifestyle of the before the arrival of Europeans Production, Inc. with contemporary native life in the work of contemporary native people from the 1400's up through This award-winning documen- 1600. Canada. writers is studied, providing tary focuses on the impending re- insight into the creative process of The Excavation of Mound 7 is Part 1 explores pre-European location of several thousand these important voices in modern an excellent source for archaeolog- times and examines native artifacts Navajo from a joint-use land area literature. ical study. Primarily an educa- from the Royal Ontario Museum. suruounding the Hopi Reservation tional tool, the video gives a Part 2 documents the contem- which is located in the midst of The Eagle and the Candor detailed look at the painstaking porary life of three native com- the Navajo Reservation, Length: 28:381975 work requited of dedicated munities. The film observes a The Peterson Zah family archaeologists. Produced by: KBYU-TV logging operation, a potter, and a serves as the focus in this intimate snowshoe factory. investigation of the detrimental This documentary examines Eyes of the Spirit the interaction between the Native effect of relocation on the Navajo Length: 29:49 1983 people involved. The film suggests American Cultures of North and Children of the Long-Beaked dux politically motivated interest South America. Produced by: KYUK-TV, Corey Bird in strip mining has encouraged Native American entertainers Flintoff &Alexia Isaac The Yupiit, the Eskimos of Length: 29:001976 this land dispute. of Brigham Young University's southwestern Alaska, are the heirs Produced by: Bullfrog Films The film portrays the cultural Lamanite Generation tour South America in the summer of 1975. to a rich and varied culture. Their This contemporary portrait of and economic conditions under which the Navajo attempt to sur- They perform before live and woodcarved masks, symbols of the Dominic Old Elk, a 12-year-old vive while striving to preserve television audiences, reaching an Yupiit spirit, imagination and art Crow Indian, seeks to erase many their traditional values. It exam- estimated 75 million people in 14 were used in their dancing of the stereotypes made infamous ines a broad range of reservation South and Central American ceremonies to celebrate the seasons by Hollywood Westerns. concerns, including unemploy- countries. of life. However, these sacred Today Dominic is proud of his ment, malnutrition, alcoholism, Students discuss their native masks were seen as superstitious heritage, but he's part of young trader abuse, and health care. It differences and similarities against and idolatrous by turn of the cen- America, too. This film explores also emphasizes the land's impor- a backdrop of Aztec and Mayan tury missionaries. Little by little, Dominic's life and interests in an tance to the Navajo traditional ruins. the missionaries chi77led away at Yupiit spirituality. Everywhere, attempt to help others accept and livelihood and creates an awareness and respect for the plight of Dineh. Earthshapers the mask dancing stopped. appreciate another American Eyes of the Spirit documents Length: 14:00 culture. the creation of three traditional The program begins with a Produced by: Filmedia Ltd. tip,: wooden masks designed by Yup'ik review of Native American life 4 Thousands of years ago, master carvers. A performance of and history, then follows Dominic Native people of the North dance, song and story culminates through his daily activities: at a American continent created the revival of masked dancing in Throbbing Hand Game and an all- mounds of earth in patterns of the the Yukon/Kuskokwim region Indian rodeo; riding in a pickup to eagle, bear and deer, representing after more than fifty years. the Sacred Mountains and round- their spirituality and respect for all ing up horses in springtime. living creatures. Woodland Native Folklore of the Muscogee people continued building these (Creek).People Available to NAPBC members mounds as tangible symbols of Length: N:00 1983 only their beliefs, and of the life force that created and sustained them. Produced by: Gary Robinson/ Dancing to Give Thanks These sacred mounds, links to Creek Nation Communications andKOENV Length: 29:37 Woodland ancestors, give us a win- a dow into the past and vision into Folklore is the tiunAttission of Produced by: Nebraska the future. oral history, values, and traditions Educational Television from one generation to the next. It The traditions and family cus- Excavation of Mound 7 represents the major portion of an toms of the Omaha Indian Tribe "Aston Voices" Indian nation's literature and plays are celebrated in this program that Length: 44:00 an important role in the preserva- takes a look at the tribe's 184th Distant Voices. . .Thunder Produced by. Division of tion of a culture. Audiovisual Arts, National annual He-De-Wa-Chi or Festival Words Program host Dr. Ruth of Joy. Park Service Arrington describes the nature of The He-De-Wa-Chi is a cele- Length: 59:181990 In the mid 1960's, archae- folklore within Creek culture. She bration paying homage to nature Produced by: Nebraska ologists set out to uncover the explains the breakdown of folklore and thanking it for the life and sus- Educational Television, mysteries held in the central New into three categories: legends, tenance the tribe has derived from Instructional Television Unit. Mexico site of Gran Quivira. Set myths, and fables. Traditional the earth's plants and animals. This program explores the against a backdrop of semi-arid Creek tales illustrate each category influence of oral tradition on con- This ceremonial celebration oc- grassy country, these archaeolo- and include the legend "Where the temporary Native American gists began piecing back together curs in conjuction with the first Creek People Came literature. Experts including Larry the rubble of the "pueblo de las moon of August. You are From," the myth full Evers and Charles Ballard offer humanas." taken into the midst of the festivi- "The Coming of viewers an understanding of the Mound 7, the last and deepest ties to learn how this event began, Fire:' and the fable oral tradition in both preliterate site in Gran Quivira, consisting of "How the Wood- with participantsboth young and literate society. They examine 226 rooms, was also a very large and oldbeing interviewed. Both pecker Came

141 Each tale is narrated by a ethic, a respect for elders, and a mination," the government ended Four Corners of Earth Native American storyteller and regard for the land. the protected status of the Meno- Length: 30:001985 111 illustrated by a well-known Indian minee as an Indian tribe. Their Program 2 Produced by: Bureau of Florida artist. Dr. Arrington discusses the reservation became a county. Folklife and WFSUTV Though they were forced to symbolism and themes contained The Learning Path This program explores the live like white people and out- within each story. Length: 28:40 roles and culture of Seminole "The Learning Path" focuses wardly lost some of their uniqueness, the Menominee kept a women where traditional values , on the confrontation between the thread of their culture alive. Fol- keep pace with the forces of Oneida and the Green Bay Curric- today's technology. ulum Committee over the intro- lowing a return to tribal status in fr I 1973, the Menominee today are Various aspects of this culture duction of an Indian history and are discussed including the clan culture course in the city's high reaffirming their heritage. system, legends, medical practices, schools. General public education Program 6 foods, traditional clothing, crafts, often is unresponsive to many Native American needs, such as Dreamers with PowerPart 1 and education, Viewers learn that the high Native American drop- Length: 29:19 the Seminole culture today is a out rate, curriculum needs, and the Traditionally, the Menominee unique blending of ideals and need for local control of schools. are known as dreamers. Members values. This film explores and of the tribe would fast, have evaluates ways of making the visions, interpret them, and use Gannagaro educational system responsive, by them to make decisions or develop Length: 27:471986 courses of action. working within the system and Produced by: Alexandra J. Lewis- "Dreamers with Power" from outside it, using parental Lorent for WXXI:11/, Rochester, explores the stereotypes and truths committees, supplemental educa- New York tion, alternative schools, and other about reservation life by exploring The Seneca, one of the five 'Turning of the Child"is part of the "We methods. Menominee history in a unique Are One"series depicting the life and performance created by a group of Iroquois nations of New York culture of a Native American family in ,Trogram 3 Menominee young people. State, lived at Gannagaro, an ancient Seneca village located at early 19th century Nebraska. Land is Life Program 7 the crest of Boughton Hill just Length: 28:40 Forest SpiritsA Series outside of Victor, New York. The For the Oneida, land is not Dreamers with PowerPart 2 1975-76 tribe lived And thrived there until just an economic base, land is life. Length:27:43 Produced by: NEWIST the village was attacked by the This program documents the This program continues the This series of seven, half-hour history of the Oneidas' troubles very special offering of the young French and totally destroyed in programs was filmed on location over land. It begins with their trip Menominee people who have a July, 1687. in Wisconsin. The first three pro- from New York to Wisconsin and new vision, a feeling about them- The lives of the Seneca people grams deal with the Oneida explores the allotment and subse- selves as a distinct and important were changed forever on that day. Nation; the last four, with the quent loss of most of their land in Indian nation. They possess the What happened that summer? Menominee people. Program Wisconsin. power to reshape the future and to Who were the Seneca people and topics range from heritage, educa- Now, little land for building carry the traditions of their way of how did they live? The events tion, and relationship to the land, remains on the reservation. life with them to the next genera- which happened in July, 1687 have to Native Americans' dreams for Oneida who wish to return, can- tion of Menominee. remained somewhat of a mystery the future. not. The Oneida are trying to until Robert Dean, archaeologist Program 1: To Keep a Heritage recover their lost land and improve Forgotten Frontier for the Seneca Nation of Indians, Alive the land they have. began excavating the Gannagaro Program 2: The Learning Path Length: 28:30 1976 site. Robert Dean, together with Program 3: Land is Life Program 4 Produced by: KAETTV Program 4: Ancestors of Those Yet other archaeologists, historians Ancestors of Those Yet Unborn This program documents the Unborn and traditional Seneca, attempts to Length: 28:30 architectural, political, social, and uncover this mystery on PrOgralM 5: Living with Tradition religious history of the Spanish Although the size of their Gannagaro. Program 6: Dreamers with mission settlements of southern PowerPart 1 nation is smaller now, the Gannagaro pieces together life Menominee still live in the same Arizona. Program 7: Dreamers with Jesuit and Franciscan priests at this 17th century Seneca village basic region in northern Wiscon- PowerPart 2 created a cultural climate for con- which, according to tradition, "is sin that they have occupied for version rather then baptizing by the location of the important Program 1 hundreds of years. "Ancestors of force. These missionaries made events in the founding of the To Keep a Heritage Alive Those Yet Unborn" offers a Christianity part of a vast complex League of the Iroquois." Length:28:38 glimpse at the lives, lifestyles, and of conventions. They first taught The program weaves together The heritage of a people was personal feelings of some of the the Indians the skills of western a combination of footage from the almost obliterated when a genera- members of the Menominee Tribe. tion of Oneidas in Wisconsin were agrarian civilization such as archaeological excavation at Gan- sent to boarding school at the turn Program 5 blacksmithing, mining, and cattle nagaro and examines museum raising. Such skills increased the archives and collections. Inter- of the century. As a result, the Living With Tiadition health and comfort of these semi- views with Robert Dean, Richard Oneida language and customs Length: 28:30 were all but eliminated. nomadic peoples and made them Johonny John (Faith Keeper for "Living with Tradition" offers This program shows how the receptive to conversion. the Seneca Nation of Indians) and a glimpse at some of the Oneida are reversing the erosion of Following the Christianizing other representatives of the Menominee people and the tradi- their heritage by teaching their of area tribes, the converts and Tonawanda and Salamanca Seneca tions they are trying to maintain. children their native their pastors built missions. These are special highlights of tongue. Oneida For a short period in their monuments of Spanish colonial history, the Menominee of Gannagaro. children also are learn- architecture and the aura they The program also explains to Wisconsin were not Indians. created form the focus of "The ing about artifacts and viewers the hows and whys of an mementos, the moral Under a federal process called "ter- Forgotten Frontier." 15 archaeological dig. Questions produce her trademark fine line Herman Red Elk: A Sioux alcoholism. This is a true story which-are answered during the pottery: Indian Artist that occurred between 1940 to program include: What is a dig? 1985, told in the words of the peo- Length: 29:001975 Why do archaeologists dig? What The Good Mind ple who lived it. The Honour of Produced by: South Dakota do they find and how are these Length: 30:001983 EN All dramatically portrays the pain- finds interpreted? Produced by: Robert Stiles and Herman Red Elk, a Yankton ful slow road back to sobriety. It Sioux artist from Ft. Peck Agency, gives hope and inspiration to Gannagaro examines pertinent The United Methodist Montana, is best known for his native people throughout the Seneca artifacts such as pottery, Communications combs, textiles and beads, and pro- skin paintings, meticulously country. vides an inside view of a Long This program explores the created in traditional form. In his House and other relevant similarities between Christian art, he strives to recapture the The Honour of AllPart 2 dioramas. beliefs and Native American glory of the earlier times and Length: 43:41 beliefs and practices of traditional places, to enhance and illuminate This program shows various Native American tribes in the the present reality of the Native members of the Alkali Band, who words and life styles of contem- American. discuss the put, present and the porary Indians. It points out that Red Elk speaks of his lifelong future of their community. It is both religions can learn a great interest in art and of the influences done to provide communities with deal from each other, and it seeks of his grandfather's teachings. He guidelines in their struggle with to dispel false stereotyping of describes the painting of a winter alcoholism and drug abuse to Native A mericans. Filmed on count, a document on skin of achieving their own sobriety. location across the country, iis ymrly occurrences such as deaths, narrated by Steve Charleston, a horsestealing, and battles. Awed by Sharing Innovations that Work Choctaw Indian. the wide scope of contemporary Length: 26:39 art, Red Elk views his style as rang- This program shows an inter- ing from realistic to abstract, but national conference that was held maintaining the old traditions. at Alkali Lake on Alcoholism and Grandfather Sky drug abuse. The sharing of infor- Length: 50:00_ HisatsinomThe Ancient mation and ideas of the attendees Ones is the purpose of this program. Produced by Chariot Produc- Length: 24:00 tions, KAET-TV and Native Huteetl: Koyukon Memorial Produced by: Tim Radford American Public Broadcasting Potlatch 'Apache Mosonain Spirits" is a modem This video gives a glimpse into Consortium. Length: 60:00 1983 day story interwoven with ancient the spirit power of the Anasazi Apache mytholgyi This contemporary drama tells people of the Colorado and San Produced by: Curt Madison the story of Charlie IDne Wolf, a Juan River valleys. Once a hue.. flg Many cultures have different troubled urban Lakota1Navajo The Gifts of Santa Fe and gathering people, they soon ways of dealing with death. Some youth whose journey from Denver became the keepers of thc sacred have very elaborate ceremonies Length: 22:00 MI to the home of his sheepherder corn. The kivas, the Womb of the that last weeks or months. Others Produced by: Marguerite J. uncle in Lukachukai, at the heart Earth Mother, became the handle it as simply and quickly as Moritz of the Navajo Nation, launches spiritual epicenter of Anasazi possible. Some death rites are com- Every year for the last six him on a voyage of discovery. culture. Following their creation munal while others are privately decades Native American artists Scenes of present day Navajo story into the fourth world, observed by individuals. from across the Southwest have set lifefamily gatherings, visits to HisatsinomThe Ancient Ones "Huteetl" presents the final aside a few days to gather in Santa the trading post and herding the artistically documents the paths of death rites for a young couple Fe, New Mexico, to sell their sheep from summer to winter these people through the connect- from Hughes, Alaska who died in works. In the early years, this campare woven together with ing of story; song, dance and a small plane crash in March, 1981. Indian Market was a relatively traditional ceremonies and stories ceremony. In the Koyukon tradition, a small event. But a growing interest to create a compelling portrait of memorial potlatch was given just both in the United States and the Navajo way. Charlie's emerg- The Honour of AllA Series over a year later. Relatives and visi- ing knowledge of his heritage and around the world in Indian art has 1987 tor's came from more than a dozen his struggle to find his identity villages. More than 200 people changed that. Produced by: Phil Lucas Today, the Santa Fe Indian provides us with a vivid sense of joined the 100 residents of Hughes the importance of family and Productions, Inc. for the five days of celebrating. A Market is an international event, The Honour of All is an the largest and most prestigious place to the Navajo. His journey memorial potlatch signals the end juried competition of the Native awakens us to what it means to be exciting three part series that tells of mourning and the resting of the the dynamic and inspiring story of American artists in the world. It a human being...living in the pres- deceased spirits from a year of Alkali Lake. A powerful educa- takes place on the third weekend ent and at home with the past. wandering. tional package for use by all those in August and it attracts close to interested in achieving goals of one-hundred thousand people. Health Care Crisis at sobriety, both as individuals and as I Am Different From My "The Gifts of Santa Fe" tells Rosebud a community. Brother: Dakota Name- the story of this remarkable and Length: 20:301973 beautiful event. Viewers will meet Program 1:The Honour of All Giving Pro( iced by: South DakotaETV buyers and sellers, collectors and Part 1 (56 minutes) Length: 20:00 1981 artists, judges and juries. They will This program explores and Program 2:The Honour of All Produced by: Native American see potter y, jewelry, carvings, offers some possible solutions to a Part 2 (43 minutes) Public Broadcasting Consortium weavings, and paintings of the serious shortage of physicians on Program 3:Sharing Innovations This real life docu-drama highest quality and find out what the Rosebud Reservation in 1973. that Work (26 minutes) depicts the Name-Giving Adequate medical attention is makes them outstanding works of The Honour of AllPart 1 Ceremony of three young arr. Featured in this piece is the a continuing problem on reserva- Length: 57:07 Flandreau Dakota work of Lucy M. Lewis, master tions across the country. This Sioux Indian children. potter from the Acoma Indian timely film acknowledges health An educational docudrama In the tradition of Reservation and a living legend care problems faced by Native that recreates the story of the their Dakota Tribe, who at the nge of 90 continues to Americans and presents viable Alkali Lake Indian Band's heroic Winona, Jody, and solutions. struggle to conquer its widespread Hep come of age by receiving dime novels and Wild West shows, hawk, Chato's Land and A Man clay may have led to the develop- their traditional Indian names which symbolize the destruction Called Horse seem to act out such ment of the art of pottery. from their grandparents with the of the Native American's food fantasies even while appearing The program shows how ceremonial blessing of The Keeper supply and the creation of the more than usually interested in ac- various tribes differ in their use of of The Pipe. image of Indians as losers. Clips curacy. In the latter film for exam- materials, weaving methods, From their grandparents, they are shown from several Hollywood ple, Richard Harris acts out the shapes, designs, and colors. learn the meaning and importance vezsions of the story of Buffalo fantasy of a white man becoming Special guest is basketmaker of being given their Indian names. Bill including a moving excerpt for an Indian chief. German Indian Naomi White. Robert Altman's Buffalo Bill and friendship clubs are shown to They learn what it is to be Painting "Indianr when all the family the Indians. The use of Indians as illustrate the sympathy whites can actors was attempted by some show for Indian history. Length: 29:03 prepares for the ceremony. From Contemporary Native Ameri- their parents and The Keeper of directors such as Col. Tim McCoy; director John Ford established the Warpaint and Wigs can painters integrate their tradi- The Pipe they learn the meaning format for the use of Indians as Length: 28:50 tional art heritage with a personal of the blessing that is given an devices and enemies. There is also An examination of how the creative identity, to break away Indian child receiving a traditional a memorable example of how inac- movie imagethe Noble Savage . from the tourist's concept of name for life. They learn of the curate the "authentic" portrayals honor bestowed on them when and the Savage Savagehas affected "Indian" art. Historical Native of Indian life in fihns usually are. American paintings range from family, relatives, and friends come Native Americans' self-image. The the earliest carvings and paintings to the Name-Giving, and they film, as well as the series itself, is Heathen Injuns and the in caves (rock art), to the ledger learn to share this honor with gifts critical of HollyWoodbecause the Hollywood Gospel drawings of the late I800's, to the and a feast for their visitors. impact of film images on Indian Length: 28:54 religious sand paintings of the This program strives to elevate people has been enormous, and A look at the distortion and Navajo. Indian children's self-image and damaging. Hollywood makes misrepresentation of Indian relig- Guests for this program are: educate non-Indian children by money by portraying Indian peo- ion and values in Hollywood painter and sculptor Larry Golsh presenting positive role models ple being killed. The industry is movies. Janet McCloud and other and painter "Pop" Chalee. They and exploring the differences and urged to make positive, realistic Indian women describe how the discuss past and present Native commonalities between tribes. portrayals of Native people, both Indian woman, who usually in the past and the present. American painters and their appears as anonymous, docile or Images of IndiansA Series influences on their work. ludicrous, has been inaccurately Indian Arts atithe Phoenix Producers: Robert Hagopian and portrayed and stereotyped. In Heard MuseumA Series II Pottery Phil Lucas for KCTS/9, Seattle. reality Indian women have been Length: 28:00 Narrator: Will Sampson chiefs in some tribes and often had 1975 - Southwestern Indian pottery, The first Western movie was the final authority on war. Produced by: KAETTV primarily a woman's art, is made produced in 1913. Since then, over The Heard Museum in entirely by hand, without a pot- 200 "cowboy and Indian" films How Hollywood Wins the West Phoenix contains an witensive col- ter's wheel. Here, the different have been made, and almost with- Length: 28:51 lection of Sciuthwest Native styles and methods of potters of out exception, they have portrayed This program deals with the American artifacts which this the Santa Clara, Papago, Mohave, the Native American as strange one-sided presentation of Indian series incorporates in its six pro- and Yuma are illustrated, including and quaint and either more or less history despite the frequent use of grams. This series explores six imprints, carvings, and firing than human. Images of Indians is a Ind:an culture in Hollywood major areas of Native American methods. five-part series which examines the films. Governed by the philos- art: basketry, painting, pottery, tex- Guest for this program is stereotypes drawn by the movies ophy of Manifest Destiny, white tiles, silversmithing, and Kachina Mabel Sunn, Maricopa Indian and questions what the effect of history could only conceive of doll sculpting. Through demonstra- potter. the Hollywood images has been Indians as stumbling blocks to be tions and informal conversations on the Indian's own self-image. overcome. As Vine Deloria notes between artisans and Museum Textiles in The Great Movie Massacre, Director Dr. Patrick Houlihan, we Length: 28:45 movie misrepresentation of Native get an understanding of the arti- Navajo weavers, Martha Begay Americans comes from a failure to sans particular cultural art form. and Lillian Dineyazhe, use wool really know what happened in Houlihan and narrator Steve and cotton yarns to create rugs, history. A clip is shown from Trail Johnson also discuss the influences blankets, and wall hangings. The of Tears, a dramatic reenactment from within a culture and between Navajo have been most prolific in narrated by Johnny Cash showing cultures. textile design. Hopi fabric designer, the tragic events surrounding the Pmgmin 1:Basketry Manfred Susunkewa uses ancient forced removal of Indian tribes Pmgram 2:Painting and modern tribal designs for from the Southeast to Indian Ter- Program 3: Pottery silkscreening on many kinds of ritory. Clips from diverse films, Program 4:Textiles fabric. These artists discuss and such as Soldier Blue and Man from Program 5:Jewelry demonstrate their textile arts. .1 Laramie are used to illustrate the Program 6:Kachinas Jewelry theme that Hollywood has never Length: 27:51 dealt with Indians as people. Basketry "Jewelry" explores differences Length: 28:13 in Navajo, Zuni, and Hopi silver- The Movie Reel Indians "Basketry" closely examines Length: 28:52 smithing. It offers an historicalr- the making and use of baskets by pective, starting with the int uc- The image of Indians as savage Southwest Native Americans. murderers is shown in the opening tion of the art by the Spanish, and Archeological findings and moving to an examination of the 'images ofindians" film clips. Indian spokesman historical data indicate that this three jewelry production methods: Dennis Banks and Vine Dek ria The Great Movie Massacre traditional craft developed from Zuni inlay, Navajo sandcast, and Length: 29:01 comment on the intentional vi the need for containers for a vari- Hopi overlay. Dr. Houlihan ciousness against Indians in an in- A look at the ety of purposes: food and water discusses how to determine the Indian's warrior dustry where the filmmakers' fan- storage; earth hauling; ceremonial quality of silver and turquoise. image, tracing its use tasies govern what the movies will use; and fermenting of fruit juices. Guest for this Program is John with stills, film clips, show. Recent films such as Winter- The practice of lining baskets with E. Salaby, Navajo silversmith. Kachinas their reservation, traveled to meet Keep Your Heart Strong Filmed entirely on location at the Length: 28:59 the Crow in Montana. One night Length: 58:091986 Rosebud Sioux Reservation. Live and Remember ("Wo "Kachinas" examines the on their journey, white men Deb Wallwork, Prairie Public attacked their camp, and the Kiksuye") opens with an importance of Kachinas in Pueblo Television religions, their use in teaching the unwanted war started. An educa- unprecedented look inside a young, the Kachina ceremonial tional video, I Will Fight No More An hour-long documentary Lakota Sweat Lodge Ceremony which gives an inside view of con- calendar, and the Kachina as a Forever demonstrates how the "Inipi"perhaps the most ancient temporary Native American highly-prized art form. greed for gold and land has again rite of the Lakota Sioux people culture in its most accessible and Guest for this program is Tino desecrated the lives of many that continues today. The Lakota popular formthe Pow Wow. The Youvella, a Hopi Kachina sculptor. Native people. world view presented includes program uses interviews with such issues as the role of women in Indian historians and elders to pro- Indian society, alliances with ani- John Kim Bell vide insight not only into the arts mal nations, the Peace Pipe Length: 36:331983 of dance and song-making, but ceremony, and the changing rela- Produced by: Anthony Azzopardi also explains the relevance of tradi- tionships both within the reserva- This program tells the story of tional values to contemporary - tion community and with the a talented and passionate young Indian life. non-Indian world. man who has broken through social barriers and stepped into the Man of Lightning limelight. At the age of 31, John Length: 28:301982 Kim Bell is the first Native Last Stand at the Uttle Big Horn Produced by: Gary Moss for American Indian pursuing a career Length: 60:00 9 Georgia State University as a symphonic conductor. A documentary that examines "Man of Lightningr based on The film tracks Kim Bell's one of the most popular stories in two Cherokee Indian legends, is an early interest and development in American history, the Battle of the exciting drama of the long- music, his pursuit of the stage as a Little Big Horn, from the multiple vanished world of the Cherokee in promising concert pianist, his perspectives of the different the years before European contact. show conductor beginnings and peoples who fought there. THE Enhanced by the use of special the eventual move to glittering LAST STAND will go on to effects, this program is an action- explore what happened after the "In The White Mtn' s Image" Broadway, and his celebrated packed tale of a young man's strug- introduction into the world of battle. You wiIl see how gle to manhood. It explores the In the White Man's image classical music conducting. American culture turned this demanding morality and complex battle into a mythic moment spirit world of the earliest Length: 51:221991 in American history. Journey to the Sky: A Americans. Produced by: Native American The program was filmed in the Public Broadcasting Consortium History of the Alabama Legacy in Limbo natural splendor of Southern and Nebraska Educational Coushatta Indians Length: 60:001990 1111 Appalachia and in an authentically Television Length: 52:44 1980 recreated Cherokee village. In 1875, Captain Richard Pratt Produced by:WXXI:TV Produced by: KUHT Film escorted 72 Indian warriors sus- The Museum of the American Menominee pected of murdering white settlers Produotions Indian in New York City has by Length: 58:501974 to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, "Journey to the Sky" is a far the world's greatest collection Florida. Once there, Pratt began folktale of the Alabama Coushatta of Native American artifacts in Produced by: Educational an ambitious experiment which Indians. Alabama Chief Fulton the world. Yet only a small por- Communications, University involved teaching the Indians to Battise sits before a campfire in a tion of the more than one million of Wisconsin-Green Bay read and write English, putting moonlit woods and relates in his artifacts in the Museum collec- This documentary examines them in uniforms, and drilling native dialect the fantasy tale of tion, are on public display. The the historical development of the them like soldiers. "Kill the Indian three youths traveling to the ends remaining artifacts are piled from many social and political problems the floor to the ceiling in a Bronx and save the manr was Pratt's of the earth and beyond. The story faced by the Menominee Indians motto. weaves in and out of the film's nar- warehouse. Ma...eurn officials are of northwestern Wisconsin. These willing to move, but New York With the blessing of Congress, rative segments, and serves as a problems include absence of City and state politicians are Pratt expanded his program by metaphor for the history of the industry, need for welfare support, tribe. blocking the move. Every attempt and conflict within school establishing the Carlisle School for to move the museum to a better The program describes the Indian Students to continue his location has been disrupted by "civilizing" mission. Although struggle of a people to preserve sYsteBmcaes.use of these concerns, the threats, angry debate or lawsuits. Menominee sought reversal of a liberal policy for the times, Pratt's their way of life. The program Meanwhile, the legacy of school was a form of cultural chronicles the passage of a hunting federal government decision to ter- nearly every Indian culture in the minate their status as an Indian genocide. Native Americans who and gathering culture that Western Hemisphere hangs in the attended the schools help tell the flourished in the rich Southeastern reservation. At the time this film balance, now waiting upon the was produced, legislation was pend- story of a humanist experiment forests of central Alabama. It legal system to free it from limbo. gone bad, and its consequences for follows the Alabama Coushatta ing in the U.S. Congress to restore a generation of Indians. through their first contacts with the Menominee's tribal status. Live and Remember Three weeks following the Europeans and their migration Length: 28:54 first telecast of "Menominee the I Will Fight No More Forever west. Now, over one hundred years Henry Smith, Solaris/Lakota U.S. Congress granted.le Meno- later, the tribes have settled in East Length: 10:00 Project minee request for restoration to This video, told in illustra- Texas. A documentary about the tribal status with President Nixon tions, narrates the war between Many of the old ways are gone, Lakota Sioux nation's oral tradi- signing the bill into law. This Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce and the program ends on a note of tion, song and dance, medicine action reversed a and Colonel Gibbons aad his wonder about what has been lost, and the spirit world, and perrep- precedent-setting deci- army men. The non-treaty Nez and uncertainty about what the tions of bkultural lifestyle, sion and affects the Perce, who did not give into US future holds. discussed by Lakota elders, medi- destiny of all Native government demands to return to cine men, and traditional dancers. Americans. that troubled American settlers in Teaching children the way and Elizabeth George, one of the last Minorities in Agriculture: the great river valleys of the heritage of the Navajo people can surviving members of the tribe The Winnebago midwest and southeast. What were help counteract such cultural ero- "don't ever give up the land"was those many earth mounds dotting sion. The two young people in taken to heart and used as a rally- Length: 28:301984 the wooded landscape? Finally, in "Navajo" learn about the Navajo ing cry for the tribe's comeback in Produced by: Ralph A. Swain, 1897, the relationship between the matriarchal society, the history of the 1970's and 80's. Briar Cliff College mounds and the Indian decedents the Navajo Nation, and the The New Pequot is a sweeping This documentary highlights came to light through the work of Navajo desire to live in peace and documentary that looks back to the economic development pro- Cyrus Thomas. Thomas also sug- harmony with the earth. They the troubled but rich heritage of grams of the Winnebago Tribe of gested that not all mounds were discover the foundation of Navajo what was once one of the most Nebraska. It begins with a brief built by the same Indian tribes, a culturethat all things on land powerful and feared group of pea history of the tribe and moves to a theory supported by evidence have a purpose. ple in America. The program also description of their food self- recently revealed. looks at the amazing 20th century sufficiency program. Navajo Code Talkers resurgence of the tribe and talks A tribal elder contrasts the Nations Within a Nation Length: 27:23 1986 with current leaders of the Pequots farming methods of the past with Length: 58:30 Produced by: Tom McCarthy and and hears of their hopes and today's advances in agri-business, dreams for the largest of Connec- Produced by: Department of including use of a computerized KENVIV ticut's indigenous Indian tribes. SociologyOklahoma State financial center. Through inter- This film use's 1940's archival Pequot, meaning "destroyer," views with Tribal Chairman University footage of Navajo life as well as is the name of the tribe that, by Rueben Snake and others, the pro- Sovereignty has come to mean scenes of World War II, to show 1628, numbered 10,000 members gram explores the tribe's canning many things to Native American the vital role a small group of and controlled more than 2,000 center, grocery store, farm opera- communities: the right to self- Navajo Marines played in the square miles in what is now south- tion, and corn harvest. government; the right to provide South Pacific during the 2nd eastern Counecticut. After a 17th services to tribal members; the World War. Featured are inter- century was with European col- Miss Indian America right to generate income for tribal views with Navajo Chairman onists, however, the Pequot programs and activities; the right Length: 58:50 1973 Peter MacDonald, artist and population and spirit were nearly to plan and direct economic Produced by:KBYU:TV scholar Carl Gorman, Taos artist extinguished. The Treaty of Hart- development on tribal lands; and R.C. Gorman and a special ford, signed in 1638, officially This program covers the 20th the right to maintain the tradi- Presidential commendation by dissolved the tribe and even com- annual Miss Indian America Pag- tional activities of the commuthty. Ronald Reagan. manded that the surviving eant, held in 1973 in Sheridan, This program examines the his- members renounce the: Pequot Wyoming. The program torical, legal and social back- name. documents the three-day celebra- grounds of this issue. Examples of When Elizabeth George W2S tion culminating in the selection tribal governments in operation an elderly woman, in the 1960's, of Maxine Henrietta Norris as are drawn from Taos Pueblo, the she was one of the last rwo Miss Indian America 1973. Mescalero Apache Tribe, the Pequdts living on the reservation. Contestants represent thirty Muscogee (Creek) Nation, and the Over the course of three hundred American Indian tribes from all Sac and Fox Tribe. years, the tribe had drastically over the United States. The color- diminished in numbers and had ful costumes and tribal dances Native American Images been squeezed into a small, rocky show some of the differences and Length: 29:001984 parcel of landa mere fraction of similarities of modern Indian Produced by: Carol Patton the 3,000 acres given them by the cultures. Comsilk/Southwest Texas Public Treaty of Hartford. Sue Whipple Broadcasting Council remembers the night before her Mother Corn 4. This program profiles the grandmother died, George walked Length: 28:461977 a lives, philosophies, and works of out to her garden and said, "This Produced by: KBYU-TV Paladine H. Roye (Ponca), Donald is beautiful. I love the feel of it." Because corn is so sacred to the Vann (Cherokee), and Steve She always said, "Don't ever give Hopi, they call it "Mother." Corn Forbes. Three artists living in up your land," said Whipple. is the staple of the Hopi and Austin, Texas. Two of the three are "Turning of the Child" is part of the "We Richard "Skip" Hayward, Pueblo diet and is also a religious American Indians transplanted Are One" series depicting the life and Elizabeth George's grandson and symbol of the life plan in the from their native Oklahoma. The culture of a Native American family in member of the Pequot Tribal Native religion. third is a non-Indian who has early l9th century Nebraska. Council, became the leading figure "Mother Corn" examines the devoted himself through anthro- in making her wish come true. historical significance of various pological study and artistry to the The New Pequot: A libel The New Pequot profiles the work types of corn among these Native portrayal of contemporary Native Portrait Hayward and the tribe have done American cultures and traces the Americans. Length: 60:00 over the past two decades in regaining tribal land and finding symbolism of corn across genera- Produced by: Connecticut Public Navajo ways for the Pequots to a'ieve tions to today's modern uses. The Television program explores the relationship Length: 29:001979 The New Pequot: A Tribal self-sufficiency. of corn to rain dances, Kivas, and Produced by: KBYU-TV Portrait is a documentary that Kachina dolls as agents of the In "Navajo' two youngsters explores the history and future of supernatural. leave their modern way of life Connecticut's Mashantucket behind to learn the ways of their Pequot Indians. It tells the A New Vision: N E W traditional Navajo grandparents dramatic story of this proud tribe Michael NallIjo and how it has overcome many Myths sod Moundbuilders on a visit to the Navajo Reserva- Length: 30:00 tion. The program suggests that roadblocks to survive and thrive in a Length: 60:00 EN When Native American educational and technological Connecticut. sculptor Michael Naranjo was "Myths and changes are partly responsible for Fifteen years ago, the Pequots blinded during the Vietnam War, Moundbuilders" the erosion of traditional Navajo were within a heartbeat of extinc- it could have ended his career, but uncovers the mystery culture. tion. But the final command of there is more to artistic vision than "flat water" from which the mod- and Alaska. These programs New Way of Knowing explore a part of the earth once sight,This profile of the Santa ern word "Nebraska" is derived) Length: 28:50 Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, resi- goes on his first fasting. But shrouded in mystery, myth, and This programs documents dent porAers the question of what becoming a man and a warrior fable. But now the land of the the clash between traditional makes an artistis it keen senses involves more than fasting and Midnight Sun is ruled by the being a good hunter. Ni'bthaska vagaries of high-tech fortune- technologies of the north and or some inner genius? modern scientific methods This program follows Naranjo learns that part of being a warrior telling. The land and seas north of the imported from the south. It asks if as he creates beautiful sculptures of also means remaining behind from the summer buffalo hunt to stay sixtieth parallel are supposedly the wisdom of the ancients can co- bronze and stone. Based on his with Grandmother; and with the rich in minerals, oil and natural exist with the changes resulting childhood memories of life at the Turning of the Child Ceremony, it gas. The Western world has sud- from the introduction of.such pueblo, each piece is also a study means acting with honor toward denly focused its power and atten- things as guns, snowmobiles, and of determination as Naranjo one's family and tribe. tion on this previously forgotten communications satellites. works against the odds to "see" area. The series explores the Mending Bodies and Souls each new piece take shape. Becoming A Warrior realities of life in the far north Length: 28:50 Length: 30:00 through the use of bold and beau- Nez PercePortralt of a Nibthaska's rust fasting is tiful photography, enriched by the Rapid change and the prob- People threateued by a bearcarelessly honest commentaries of the peo- lems of acculturation have increased stress in the lives of Length: 23:00 wounded and dishonorably left in ple who live there. For survival, pain by Ni'bthaska's "enemy," Canada's northern inhabitants. Produced by: Phil Lucas they depend on both the wisdom Inshtethinke (which means of the ancients and the power of Through interviews and photo- Nez PercePortrait of a "mythical mischievous being" and modern science. graphs, this program examines the People, documents the history of is what the Omaha called monkeys These five programs ask prob- effects of stress, altered eating the Nez Perce people through the when they first saw them). A way ing questions about the future of habits, and alcohol on the physical early beginnings of peaceful inter- is found for Ni'bthaska to go on this land and the culture of its and mental health of the people. action with the white expedition- the buffalo hunt and Grand- original inhabitants. In a land ers Louis and Clark, the learning mother tells him he will go as a manipulated by the players in one N E W of Christianity by some Nez Perce, man and return 2S a warrior. of history's largest games of leading to a division between the One Head, Many Nations The Buffalo Hunt chance, destiny remains uncertain. two spiritual philosophies, to the Length: 30:00 Treaty of 1855 and with the 1860 Length: 30:00 Program 1: They Came to Stay While the village journeys Program 2:The Alaska Experience One Heart, Many NatIona gold rush to the northwestern shows the historic 1992 White toward the buffalo, a "game" of Prog111111 3:Tell Me Who I Am United States, the eventual House Conference on Indian dare becomes deadly "real." That Program 4:New Ways of Knowing takeover of more than 90% of Nez Education, the first time tribal and incident and a near-tragedy at the Program 5:Mending Bodies and Perce lands by the whites. community leaders, educators, and Brilliantly combined archival hunt lead Ni'bthaska and Souls Inshti'thinke to discover that administrators gathered to set a photos, personal stories and breath- They Came to Stay national agenda for education being a warrior means respecting taking scenery, this video gives a Length: 28:50 reform. Backed by Congress, this fascinating and accurate story of all life and living by the truth. This segment is set in the meeting allowed the will of the the incredible history of the Nez region once governed by the giant people to be expressed, to guide Perce. Hudson's Bay Company, which government, education, and tribal and community leadership in their NI'bthaska of the was chartered in 1670. It follows the growth of the fur trade and the united reform efforts. UmonhonA Series whaling industry, as well as the This video explains five major 1987 role of the federal government. themes in the 113 resolutions Produced by: Chet Kincaid/ The program investigates the made by the delegates. Footage of Nebraska Educational Television impact of the changes that came to dancing and celebrations in Network for the Nabraska Depart- the region with industry and Alaska, Mississippi and North ment of Education-ITV Services government. Carolina portrays the unique and A series about a 13-year-old holistic Native education experi- -`4 The Alaska Experience boy from the Omaha Tribe as he ence. You will see successful tribes goes through the first summer of Length: 28:50 and educational organizations pro- his manhood. This story develops This program explores the jects already in operation. in the year 1800, when the tradi- building of the Alaska pipeline, tional Omaha culture was still the settlement of Alaskan native 1,000 Years of Muscogee intact and thriving. This series at: land claims, and Alaska's transi- (Creek) Art portrays a historically accurate and .1.. tion from territorial status to state- Length: 28:001982 culturally sensitive presentation of hood. The film suggests that we Produced by: Gary Robinson/ The daughter of a honetrader who can learn significant lessons from Native American life and culture Creek Nation Communications at a time when white and black moved from one northwest Indian reser- past experiences of the Alaskans. vation tc) another, Juane Quit/No-See This program traces the men had traded, but not settled Smith has grown op to become an inter- Tell Me Who l Am development of Creek Indian art along the Missouri River. nationally acclaimed American Indian Length: 28:50 forms from the prehistoric period This three part series is a con- artist. From "Juane Quickto.See Smith." This program investigates the of the mound-builders to the pres- densed version of the eight part ent. Experts in the fields of North of 60: Destiny dilemma resulting from recent series called: "We Are One". attempts to provide relevant and Anthropology, History, and Art Program1: Turning of the Child UncertainA Series useful educational opportunities Criticism place Creek artifacts in PrOOM111 2:Becoming a Warrior 1983 to an ethnically diverse population their proper cultural and historical NOW11111 3:The Buffalo Hunt Produced by: TV Ontario in Canada's northland. The pro- context. The program liming of the Child This series of five, half-hour gram ultimately asks if education examines over 175 Length: 30:00 programs was filmed on locations is a tool for social change or a means of maintaining an examples of Creek Itis the year 1800, the year in in the far north of Canada's indigenous culture. anpottery, baskets, which Ni'bthaska (which means Northwest Territories, the Yukon, and old share in the responsibility stonework, clothing, jewelry, people in southern New England The Narragansetts (Tradition) for preser;ing their unique heritage. ceremonial items, and beaded have maintained their cultural Length: 28:13 sashes and pouchesfrom identity through vdrious means museums and private collections such as dance, art, and a strong "The Narragansetts" focuses People of the Macon Plateau from all over the world, including sense of family and community. on ways Narragansetts strive to Length: 9:57 the Aberdeen, Scotland Museum, Tribal history and tradition are maintain their traditional heritage Produced by: Thomas Radford the Museum of the American integrated into the daily activities and to pass traditions f rom one generation to the next. This video, a short caption of Indian in New York, the Univer- of present-day Native American the eastern United States tribes sity of Oklahoma Stovall children and adults. This program shows how the old use folklore and legend to pass and their history, blends beautiful Museum, and the Creek Council Progtarn 1: Indians in Southern on values and traditions to the scenery archival photos and mod- House Museum in Okmulgee, New England (The Survivors) young. Family members teach ern day tee nologies to represent Oklahoma. The Wampanoags of Program 2: each other skills such as carpentry, the contrast etween the power of Antique prints, photographs, Gay Head (Community Spirit and technology and the power cm and rare footage of Creek cere- animal husbandry, hunting, and Island Life) making traditional clothing. Mother Earth. monies show many of the objects The Boston Indian Program 3: The film also gives a brief in actual use. Community (Change and Identity) history of the Narragansetts. Program 4: The Narragansetts On the Path to Self-Reliance (Tradition) Indians of Connecticut (The Pride and the Power to Win Length: 45:001982 Program 5:Indians of Connecticut Importance of Land) Length: 30:00 Produced by: Peter J. Barton (The Importance of Land) Length 28:33 Program 6:The Indian Experience: This program tells the success Productions Five tribes of indigenous story of Baboquwari High School James Billie, Chairman, of the Urban and Rural (Survival) Indians live in Connecticut today: Program 7:The Mashpee in Sells, Arizona, a Tohono Seminole Tribe exemplifies the the Eastern and Western Pequots, Wampanaags (Tribal Identity) O'odham community. In 1983, goals of the people he servesto the Paugausetts, the Mohegans, Baboquivari was the lowest ranked be proud, independent, and fully Indians in Southern New and the Schaghticokes. All but the high school in Arizona. Pride and self reliant. England (The Survivors) Mohegans have reservation lands. the Power to Win shows how the This documentary narrated by Length: 28:35 This program f,411SCS on the entire Tohono O'odharn com- Chairman Billie provides an importance of maintaining a land Native Americans in Massa- munity joined forces to turn the excellent overview of tribal history base for preservation of the Native chusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode school around. The local youth are and current tribal economic American culture and way of life. Island today have many things ir now competitive with graduates of development. Through interviews any Arizona high school. How did common. However, their tribal The Indian Experience: Urban with tribal employees, we learn they do it? about the Seminole's thriving cat- lifestyles and the ways in which and Rural (Survival) they strive to preserve and transmit To make deep changes in the tle operation and agriculture and Length 28:35 school, the community turned to aquaculture programs. We learn their cultures are unique to each. Whether they live in the city This program, the series over- their traditional tribal-consensus that the proceeds from bingo have or the country all Native Ameri- view, illusttates some of the dif- method of problem solving. Vir- been used to pay back federal cans have the need to survive as ferent ways these cultures are tually everyone in the community monies and that the tribe is explor- individuals and as members of dif- preserved. from old people to the students ing new avenues of industrial ferent tribes. Native Americans themselves, got involved in mak- development. It is clearly evident The Wampanoags of Gay Head today live a life often filled with ing school decisions. Gracefully, that the Seminole Tribe is realiz- (Community Spirit and Island frustration, having to compromise Pride and Power to Win ing their goal of self-sufficiency Life) ancient traditions and values for documents that processfrom and at the same time maintaining Length: 28:45 the sake of contemporary interviews with students and their cultural heritage and identity. conformity school officials to an emotional This program shows how "The Indian Experience" graduation day. Oscar Howe: The Sioux three generations of Wampanoag shows how even though Native Indians live and maintain tradi- Painter Americans have seemingly Pride, Purpose, and tional values and keep community become assimilated and invisible Length: 29:001973 spirit alive on the Island of Promise: Palutes of in the communities in which they the Southwest Produced by:KUSDTV Martha's Vineyard. live, they are joining together Oscar Howe, South Dakota's The people of Gay Head more and more, to protect and Length 28:101982 late Artist Laureate, preserves the depend on the sea for their liveli- maintain their unique heritage, Produced by: KLVX:11/ hood. They use the colorful clay Sioux culture by giving visual customs and values. The Paiutes of the Southwest found in the Gay Head cliffs to form to Sioux ideas. are survivors. Like many Indian make unusual pottery Both these The Mashpee Wampanoags Howe recalls his early child- tribes, they have stru:4; led against hood and discusses his cultural aspects of the Wampanoag lifestyle (Tribal Identity) insurmountable oddsdisease, loss make the Gay Head people unique heritage and its influence on every Length 28:53 of land, and economic depriva- in their attempt to blend traditions facet of his painting. The members of the Mashpee tion. While the struggle continues, with their present way of life. Howe's creations derive their Wampanoag Tribe live, work, and the Paiutes are learning that it is uniqueness from his geometric use The Boston Indian Community maintain the long-standing culture possible to restore pride, maintain of lines and aesthetic points. His (Change and Identity) of their ancestors on the same cultural identity, and strive for self bright colors and abstract shapes Length: 28:36 lands the tribe has inhabited for sufficiency through economic let him paint today's man in a thousands of years. Recently, The program focuses on ways development. traditional context. developers have reshaped the The Paiute R.eservations are in which today's city-dwelling ancestral lands into new com- Native Americans maintain the scattered in a tri-state area. Inter- People of the First Light munities designed for urban living. views with tribal leaders and tribal essence of their culture. How Na- A Series This film shows haw the tive Americans who have migrated members take us to the Kaibab Native American community now 1979 1111 to Boston from all over the coun- Reservation in Arizona, the devotes its energies to preserving Shivwits Reservation in Utah, and Produced by: WGBWVtry are aided by the Boston Native the knowledge and understanding American community's strong the Moapa Reservation in Nevada. The series shows of what it means to be a Mashpee The effects of federal termination spirit of togetherness. how Native American Wampanoag Indian. Both young and restoration of tribal lands is discussed as well as tribal history, Program 2:Circle of SongPart 1 Mainstream tive program recreates how the edurAtion, and economic develop- Pmgram 3:Circle of SongPart 2 Length 24:47 "stick game " came to be. It ment. This program also provides Program4: Mainstream This program is a journey in illustrates some of the many func- the non-Indian audience with the Pmgram 5:Awakening which a young Coeur d'Alene tions of myth or legend in Native perspective of what life is like on a Program 6:Spirit of the Wind Indian women recalls her father, American culture and the role of present day Indian reservation. Program 7:Buffalo, Blood, her childhood, and her tribe's his- the "oral traditionr Salmon, and Roots tory. She becomes aware that the The Probable Passing of Word of LifePeople of Rivers Program8: Legend of the Stick reservation and her past remain a Length: 27:30 Elk Creek Game secure havena source of energy Length 60:001984 Program 9:Words of LifePeople and inspirationthe root place of "Words of LifePeople of Rivers" serves as an introduction Produced by: WGBY-TV of Rivers her being. It is a story common to many to the history of the seven tribes This documentary focuses on A Season of Grandmothers and a map for future growth. It is a a contemporary controversy to en- young Indians in today's Length 28:16 mainstream who are seeking and good foundation for in-depth courage viewers to think about the Long, snow-covered months finding new pride in their own studies of each tribe. It offers a forces that shape our society. The have always been the Indian time tribal values and identities. new perspective on Indian history, little town of Elk Creek and the past and future, rather than the for remembering a childhood, Awakening Grindstone Indian Reservation are recalling a song or telling old conventional historical survey of both located in a small valley in Length: 28:35 stories. battles and defeats. Northern California. The state This prop= emphasizes the This program focuses on the government plans to build a reser- revival of tra&tional Indian educa- spiritual rebirth of the American Red Road: lbwards the voir over the valley, which will tion, reverence for elders, and a Indian as seen through the life of Techno-Thbal force both whites and Native Johnny Arlee of the Flathead yearning for the old ways by using Length: 26:52 1984 - Americans to leave their home- Tribe. It traces his life from a point the traditional teachersthe Produced by: land. Ironically, the law gives the Grandmothersto reminisce and of despair through sevetal stages of KBOVIV Native Amc icans the power to teach the ways of old. spiritual awakening, to his present This documentary presents decide whether or not the dam role of spiritual leader for his tribe and explores contemporary views will be built. Circle of SongPart 1 and several others. of Native American philosophy, The program plays upon this Length27:30 The program begins, pro- spirituality, and prophecy. irony, editorially juxtaposing the This program shows how a gresses, and ends in a "sweat- Through an interesting combina- experiences and emotions of white person gets a song, how he passes house:' The "sweat" is an act of tion of interviews with medicine and Native American residents of it on, and what happens to old purification. "Awakening" in- people, elders, and spokespersons the area. songs in a modern world. It cludes scenes of an Indian wake, a we learn how traditional values Available to NAPBC members only examines the meaning of dances youth drum club, and family life. and ancient cosmolNy can play an explaining how a traditional way important role in today's world. Pueblo Peoples: "First Spirit of the Wind of seeing and living is kept alive in Length: 28:20 "Red Road" provides insights Encounter" a contemporary society to a world view and Fihilosophy This program emphasizes the Length: 30:00 1991 largely invisible to the American place of the horse in the life and Produced by:KNME:111 public. In recent times, an culture of the Plateau TribeLong enlivened interest in these views The program vividly captures ago, horses changed old ways of has encoutaged Native Americans the Pueblo peoples' reaction to the life by making tribes more mobile, to share their ancient knowledge first Spanish invaders in 1539 and widening hunting areas, and in- and beliefs. 1540. This program weaves creasing fighting power. Bridging historic accounts with contem- the past and present, two retired Return of the Raven, The porary Pueblo interpretations of rodeo riders from the Colville events, while exploring the Tribe talk of their life and Edison Chiloquin Story spiritual and cultural dimensions experiences on the rodeo circuit. Length: 47:001985 of the first confrontation with Their reminiscing is enhanced by Produced by: Barry Hood Films tribal film footage shot in the Europeans. First Encounters In 1954, in a policy which 1930's. shows the Pueblo experience became known as "Klamath Term- through stories by elders, historic Native American cowboys, country western/Indian music, ination," the Klamath Tribe of pueblos, archival photographs and Oregon joined over a hundred footage, dramatic readings, Pueblo and the action and excitement of western rodeos vividly bring to life tribes throughout the country in art, and music. , a contemporary blend of tradition- loss of federal recognition. The U.S. government terminated al Indian and country-western life. The Real PeopleA Series III From the "We Are One" series focusing Federal supervision over the prop- Buffalo, Blood, Salmon, and 1976 on the daily rituals and rites of passage erty of the Klamath Tribe without Roots their consent. In 1961, the govern- Produced by: KSPS-TV that make up Native American lift. Length: 27:50 ment made individual payments This is the first television Circle of SongPart 2 This program looks at the old for the reservation land to tribal series made by and about Length 28:20 ways of gathering and preserving members. American Indians. This program is a continua- food. It concerns not only the Edison Chiloquin refused pay- The different programs choose tion of "Circle of SongPart 1" nutritional value of the old, natu- ment of over a huarter-million dol- highlights from the past and the revolving around traditional song ral diet, but also and most impor- lars for his land and eventually be- important aspects of current life and dance. Its structure is circular, tantly, the tribal values connected came the first individual Native on and off the reservations. imitating the Indian concept of with roots and food. Some roots American to have his land re- These programs are designed the Circle of Life. Particular songs are used as medicine. turned by Congress. In 1980 for a family audience and present a President Carter and dances are connected to major Legend of the Stick Game truly Indian point-of-vim life events and to each individual. signed the historic Length: 28:20 Program 1: A Season of Chiloquin Act. In This entertaining and informa- 1985, the Klamaths Grandmothers 22 approached Congress to reverse harsh realities of life on the new runs away from a difficult home tributes to the survival of the com- termination. This program is the continent and the even more diffi- situationher mother and step- munity. A song is made by one true story of Klamath termination cult task of crossing cultural father drink to excess and Darlene person but it cannot be sung with- and Chiloquin's ten-year strug- barriers. gets caught in the middle of a pat- out community approval. gle to preserve traditional values. tern of violence. Although Th 7rogram was produced and Darlene's Aunt Linda is a caring, directed entirely by rural Alaskans N E W. positive role model, Alice, the in cooperation with Minto elders. Part 1 social worker, is concerned that Every effort has been made to be Length: 60:00 Linda's home is too crowded for accurate, The Tanana-Athabaskan Darlene to stay. Both Alice's super- language spoken in Minto is only On the outer banks of what is visor and a Native American alco- now being written down.-In this now the Carolinas, local Indian holism counselor guide Alice in program you will see some words tribes trade and skirmish. While helping the family through appre- spelled for the first time. on a hunting expedition, three ciation of their culture and use of Roanoak warriors come across an counseling groups. Not every inctedible sight: an Elizabethan N problem is solved, but things do E W ship sent by Sir Walter Raleigh. get better, Soon, the English and the The Spirit of Crazy Horse Algonquian-speaking Native Length: 60:00 9 Americans encounter each other N E W One hundred years ago; the for the first time. The Roanoaks Sacred Buffalo People U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred repeatedly show their generosity Chief Big Foot and over 200 other and hospitality to the English, Length: 60:00 unarmed Sioux men, women and although a high priest in the tribe This program looks at the rela- children in the deep snow of warns that they may be evil spirits. tionship between the Indian of the Wounded Knee Creek, South "Return fiche Sacred ibk" Northern Plains and the Buffalo. Dakota. It was the most infamous Return of the Sacred Pole N E W Traditional beliefs, history, and event in a long string of broken modern reservation humor and Length: 30:00 1989 Pact 2 treaties and.separate acts of racism, adaptations are all woven together greed and misguided efforts by Produced by: Michael Farrell, Length: 60:00 in the stories that are told today as whites to force the Indians to Nebraska Educational The English settlement gains buffalo return to the plains and assimilate. This program TelevisionCultural Affairs Unit strength although food remains the western tribes acquire and chronicles the history of the once "The Return of the Sacred scarce. The Indians, however, have manage their own herds. The pro- indomitable nation of buffalo- Pole" tells the story of the Omaha fallen susceptible to bacterial gram features Indian park rangers, tribe and its reclaiming of the disease carried by the colonists. wildlife managers, traditional hunting warriors, led by Crazy Sacred Pole, a spirioendowed arti- For a time, the diplomatic skills of story tellers and dancers, each of Horse, who called themselves fact that has been held for the past an Indian leader preserves peaceful whom adds their knowledge and Lakota, meaning "the Allies." 100 years by the Peabody Museum relations. John White establishes experience to express the reverance Correspondent Milo Yellow at Harvard University. his friendship with the Indians and respect that was felt for the Hair recounts the story of a The documentary recounts and tries to convince the English provider of life, the sacred buffalo. Native American peoplefrom the story of the washabagle or of the necessity of becoming more the lost battles for their land "venerable one" as the Omaha call self-sufficient. But, the pressures of Seasons of a Navajo against the invading whitesto the the Sacred Pole; its importance to hunger on the English, and disease Length: 60:001984 radicalization of the American the Omaha's heritage; its stay at on the Indians, results in a brutal Produced by: Peace River Films Indian Movement or AIM in the the Peabody; and its return to its confrontation. and KAET-TV 1970'sto the present day revival owners. This is the story of Dorothy of the Sioux cultural pride and an N E W and Chauncey Neboyia and their attempt to regain their lost Roanoak Series 9 extended family of children, grand- territory. 1986 Part 3 children and the changing world Produced by: South Carolina Length: 60:00 around them. A traditional Navajo Strength of LifeKnokovtee Educational Television Following a misguided sur- family, the Neboyias live in har- Scott prise attack on a large Indian com- mony with nature. Like their Length: 27:00 1984 a munity, word is sent from the ancestors hundreds of years before Produced by: Scott Swearingen, N E W second expedition to Raleigh in them, their lives are intimately University of Tulsa, Sheila In 1590, an entire English set- Queen Elizabeth's court. John tied to the changing seasons. Swearingen, and Gary Robinson, tlement disappeared without a White induces planters to join him While some of the younger Creek Nation Neboyias live a more modern trace. This tale of survival and in his dream of a lasting settlement In this production, Indian in Virginia. But after learning lifestyle, they sill maintain and intrigue delves into the events that artist Knokovtee Scott describes about White's return with women reflect the vitality of traditional took place between 1584 and 1590 his shellwork jewelry and shares and children, the Indians seek Navajo values. Through striking on Roanoak Island, telling the with us his journey of rediscovery photography and unhurried pace, story of the first prolonged revenge. as he sought the authentic art of viewers learn of these values and meetings between the English and his Creek and Cherokee ancestors. The Runaway share in a vision of the world that Indians from both points of view. Through his shellwork art, is unique to the Navajo. Life in the "Lost Colony" is Length: 29:01 a Knokovtee Scott brings a part of experienced through the lives of Produced by: Nebraska Educa- that past into our world today. the English artist and governor of tional Television, Nebraska Songs In Mtn Life Roanoak, John White and the Department of Social Services, Length: 29:001986 The Sun Dagger young Indian hunter Nebraska Department of Educa- Produced by: Curt Madison Length: 29:001983 Wanchese. Both men, tion, Lincoln Multi-Cultural Cen- The first documentary of Produced by: The Solstice Project as husbands, fathers ter, and Native American Public traditional Athabaskan music of and leaders of their Broadcasting Consortium, Inc. This program tells the story of Interior Alaska. Music here is not perhaps the most exciting early people, faced the 14-year-old Darlene Horse entertainment. Each song con- Indian discovery in North P11)01111 10:Wesakechak and the challenges the animal to a race Wesakechak and the Whiskey America. First Indian People around the lake with the duck as Jack In late June of 1977, Anna Program 11:Wesakechak and the prize for the winner. Length: 15:00 Schur, a Washington, D.C., artist, Whiskey Jack Wesakechak and the Medicine Long ago Whiskey Jack was Program1?: Why the Rabbit climbed to the top of a high butte Length: 15:00 called Kweekweeseu. He thought in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Turns White he was ugly, so hid in the forest She saw a dagger of light pierce an Program 13:The Creation of the One day Wesakechak hears chickadees singing. He discovers and grew very lonely. One day he ancient spiral rock carving and was Moon asks Wesakechak for help. Unfor- convinced that she had discovered they have some medicine berries, The Creation of the World and tricks the birds into giving tunately things do not work out something significant. After careful for Kweekweeseu the way he hopes. tnudy, she found that the dagger Length: 15:00 him some. Although he's given maxks solstices, equinoxes, and the This is the legend of how after careful instructions, Wesakechak Why the Rabbit lune White nineteen-year lunar cycle. The sci- a great flood, Wesakechak, with abuses the power of the medicine Length: 15:00 entific community acknowledges the help of Muskrat and berries and gets himself into Wesakechak is reminded that the importance of Sofaer's Wolverine, create a new world. trouble. as a teacher of the first Indian Peo- Everyone lives happily until the discovery The Stone and the Mouse ple, he should have taught them to This program explores the wolverine becomes boastful and respect and give thanks for the gifts Length: 15:00 Anasazi culture that produced this proud. He soon learns the valuable of the Creator. He is forced to res- remarkable calendar and thrived lesson of what can happen when Sometimes when he had cue hem flora a %Teat drought and over 1,000 years ago in the harsh one mistreats a special gift from nothing to do, Wesakechak would starution. He is gole to do this Chaco Canyon environment. the Creator. challenge other creatures to race with the helpof a little brown with him. This story is about the rabbit. The First Spring Flood time he challenges a big, round Length: 15:00 stone to a race. And haw a little The Creation of tha Moon The Creator put Wesakechak mouse helix Wesakechsk. Length: 15:00 Surviving Columbus on the earth to take care of all the When the job of taking care of Length: 120:00 creatures. This makes Maci the sun must be taken over by an The Pueblo Indians' 450 years Manitoo, a bad spirit, very jealous old spirit's son and daughter, they of contact with Europeans and and angry Wesakechak is tricked begin to fight over who should do their long and determined struggle by the jealous spirit and is almost it. As a result, Wesakechak is sent to preserve their culture, land and drowned by a spring flood. to settle the argument. And so the moon is created. religion is the subject of this pro- Why the Crow is Black gram. A different perspective of Length: 15:00 Columbus Quincentenary, an That One Good SpirltAn Long ago, Ah-haw-shiw had important chapter in American Indian Christmas Story history that has been omitted beautiful white feathers of which from school texts and the public he was very proud. One day the Length: 15:451981 consciousness far too long. Crow offers to help Wesakechak. Produced by: Ute Tribe Audio- He promises to keep the camp fire Visual Department. Tales of Wesakechak burning while Wesakechak is This amusing clay-animated A Series away. But because he is careless the tale is for young and old alike. A fire goes out, and as a result, all of young the Indian Boy awakens 1984 the Crow's feathers are turned from a dream on a cold winter Produced by: Marla Dufour, black. -411404 night long, long ago. His dream Storytellers Production Wapoose the Rabbit has told him that something will A thirteen part series of fifteen "That One Good SpiritAn Indian Length: 15:00 Christnia Story happen that night, something that minute programs based on well comes only to those who are good. known Canadian Cree legends. Wapoose was once a very Why Bees Have Stingers The boy sits and watches his An oral storyteller and shadow handsome rabbit with wide, Length: 15:00 family sleep as he tries to under- puppets are used to dramatize strong shoulders. He attracted the stand the dream. Suddenly, he Long ago bees could not pro- these stories of Wesakechak. attentio-% of two girl rabbits who hears a song outside the teepee. tect themselves or their precious Wesakechak was the teacher of the each wish to be his wife. But His fears are dispelled when he is first Indian people. While there are Wapoose can't choose between honey. The bees ask Wesakechak surprised by a visit from an Indian many different stories of them and seeks Wesakechak's help for help. After four days of think- Santa Claus. Wesakcchak that can be told in to make a decision. ing, Wesakechak gives them a gift. many ways, depending on the use Ayekis the Frog He tells them that by working They Never Asked Our together, using his gift, even of local elements , what remains Length: 15:00 Fathers true are the values and lessons the Muskwa the bear will not be able Ayekis did not always have Length: 58:001982 stories present. to steal their honey. long, strong back legs like he does Produced by: KYUKTV, John Program 1:The Creation of the today. But he always had a beauti- Wesakechak and the First Indian McDonald & Alexle Isaac World ful voice. When Ayekis gets People Program 2:The First Spring Flood Nunivaaq, the name means himself into trouble he is saved Length: 15:00 "Island!' For at least 2,000 years it Program 3:Why the Craw is Blrrk only by the quick action of his big Wesakechak didn't like his has been home of Yup'ik Eskimos, Program 4:Wapoose the Rabbit brother, Wesakechak. 1ntaffl 5:Ayekis the Frog name. He felt he deserved a more hunters and gatherers, seafarers and Program 6:How the Fox Earned How the Fox Earned His Name powerful name like Bear or Eagle. fishers. Unknown to them, other His Name Length: 15:00 He asks the creator to give him people were laying claim to tint land, first the Russians and then Pr 0§11111 7:Wesakechak and the One day Wesakechak tricks and the other creatures new Medicine some ducks and manages to catch names. The Creator agrees to have the United States government. Today, Program 8:The Stone and the one for his dinner. While he is a naming ceremony the following Mouse resting, a strange animal creeps day, and Wesakechak's troubles most of the island belongs to the Federal Program II:Why Bees Have into the camp hoping to steal begin- government. Stingers Wesakechak's meal. Wesakechak 24 Through changes so profound Matthew King, spiritual leader; on the Niobrara River in northern as to alter forever an entire culture, James Hansen, historian, and Nebraska 500 miles south to the the Islanders were never consulted. Roland Dewings, content consul- Indian Territory, in what is now The people, never conquered in tant for this series. Oklahoma. The move was the Surviving Columbus: The Story war, never persuaded by treaty or Program1: The Treaty of 1868 government's response tp the con- of the Pueblo People negotiation, were being robbed of Program2: The Black Hills Claim fusion created when Ponca land Length: 120:00 their land by a process that barely was accidentally included in a The Pueblo Indians' 450 years recognized them as a people. government treat/ with the Sioux. of contact with Europeans and They Never Asked Our "The Trial o Standing Bear" their long and determined struggle Fathers interweaves historic tells the story of Ponca Chief to preserve their culture, land and photographs, documents, inter- Standing Bear, who was arrested religion is the subject of this pro- by the U.S. Army after leading a views with Eskimo elders and gram. A different perspective of scenes of island life in the Bering small group of his people from Columbus Quincentenary, an Sea, one of the most remote and Indian Territory back to their important chapter in American beautiful parts of Alaska, to homeland in northern Nebraska history that has been omitted in defiance of government orders. demonstrate the negative impact from school texts and the public In addition to his belief that his of US government policies on consciousness far too long. Nunivaaq over the past fifty years. ;41;1 people had been unfairly treated and would continue to die from Tomorrow's Yesterday starvation or disease if they didn't N E W leave the harsh conditions of the Length: 29:121971 Indian Territory, Standing Bear Last Stand at the Uttle BigHorn Produced by: KIVU-TV was fulfilling a promise to his Length: 60:00 This program shows how the dying son that he would be laid to A documentary that examines Pueblo people adapt to the chal- rest in the land where he was born. one of the most popular stories in lenges of modern civilization His plight was the basis for the American history, the Battle of the while maintaining their identity "Ms Truly of 1868" landmark 1879 legal case which Little Big Horn, from the multiple established for the first time that and culture. As an example, a The Treaty of 1868 perspectives of the different Pueblo mother who realizes the "an Indian is a person within the peoples who fought there. THE Length: 28:40 importance of education for her meaning of the law" and thus was LAST STAND will go on to children sells her beautiful hand- This segment focuses on the recognized as having protection explore what happened after the crafted pottery to provide funds original treaties and the radically under the U.S. Constitution. battle. You will see how American for her childrens' college different philosophies of the culture turned this battle into a educations. signers. The U.S. government Thbal Legacies mythic moment in American Filmed in striking desert brought to the table its concepts of history. homeland, this program shows hierarchy, boundaries, and dip- Native Americans as they were, as lomatic agreements-implemented 111rtle Shells they are, and as they hope to be. by a strong military and a complex Length: 25:47 legal system. The nomadic Lakota TheIncas For the Pueblo, life is as colorful as Length: 60:00 Produced by: Gary Robinson, the corn they grow. brought no tradition of elected leadership, fixed boundaries, or From the spectacular heights Creek Nation Communication of Machu Picchu to jungle valleys A cultural tape about making The Treaty of 1868 Series 111 even land ownershiptheir world extended as far as the eye could see, and desert floors, this program Native American ladies leg rattles. 1987 and the warriors could keep out uncovers the awesome world of A Muscogee Creek Indian of Produced by: NETCHE enemies. The program explores the the ancient Incas. It takes us on a Oklahoma demonstrates an Who really owns the Black legal sophistication and political trail of one of the most impressive ancient method of fashioning tun Hills of western South Dakota? unity of the Lakota developed in civilizations thl world has ever tle shell leg rattles. Christine Han- The arguments are as intertwined the struggle of the last century. known, and reveals how they neha talks about why she makes as the dark pines for which the achieved their stunning century of ladies leg rattles and demonstrates area is named. The Black Hills Claim success. step-by-step the hand crafting . To the Lakota Sioux, it is Length: 28:20 We see how they built an she tells the story of ladies leg rat- sacred ground lost; to the U.S. This segment highlights the empire across the world's highest tles from selection of the turtle government, it is land fairly physical and legal battles waged to peaks, and conquered a vast, shells to the final fitting. claimed and settled. gain and regain the Black Hills. unforgiving land. Examine the roots of this Beginning with the Lakota's Walking with Grandfather dispute in The Treaty of 1868, a somewhat late arrival in the area in N E W A Series two-part production. These half the 1770's, the program takes 1988 hour segments present facts and viewers through the treaties, MayaLords of the Jungle Produced by: Phil Lucas beliefs that have fueled over a cen- violence, legislation, and litigation Length: 60:00 Productions, Inc. tury of debate. in the 1800's, up through the AIM In the lush tropical rain forests Stories have always been a spe- Historic photos and research occupation of Wounded Knee to of Central America lies the cial part of the way people corn- are interwoven with sometimes the 1970's, and finally presents mystery of a long lost civilization. municate with and relate to each conflicting opinions from contem- contemporary views of the This program takes us on a other. Thq also help people learn porary experts, ranging from Lakota's ongoing effort. fascinating journey to explore the a great deal about themselves, the Russell Means cr the American The 111al of Standing Bear mysterious remains of the Maya, world around them, and the Indian Movement to Joe Assman, shrouded for centuries in beliefs and values of their own and a white resident being sued for his 1988 unanswered questions. It unlocks other cultures. They delight and land. Viewers also hear from Bill Produced by: The Nebraska secrets of their splendid temples entertain as they build a feeling of Welch, Black Hills Education Television Network and magnificent monuments, togetherness and group belonging. hotel owner; Bill In 1877, the United States which the jungle swallowed cen- The stories in the "Walking Elison, Mario government forcibly moved turies ago. An exotic adventure, to With Grandfather" series do all Gonzales, and Ramon members of the Ponca Indian a faraway place and time. the above. Drawing on the rich Robideaux, attorneys; Nation from their ancestral home 25 oral traditions of North American become lazy and unappreciative. The journey is a difficult one and nature can teach us. They discuss Indian people of several tribes, The Corn Maidens leave the peo- they must overcome many obsta- ecology as a way of understanding they present in a gentle way, basic ple because they cannot stay cles before they finally reach the how all things are interconnected. human values like kindness, somewhere where they are not Sacred Lake at the top of a high They also notice how water, which generosity, courage and love. These treated with kindness or respect. mountain. After the Great Wolf is essential to all life, always seeks are stories that touch themes As their crops fail an d they run makes his offerings to the four the lowest spot. Something that universal to all peoplestories out of seed to replan'-rem, the directions and to Mother Earth seems very humble and patient about ordinary people meeting people of the village begin to grow and Father Sky, he leaves Little can also be very strong. That eve- extraordinary challenges, about desperate. They realize that their Mouse Sister to discover the prom- ning Grandfather shares the story magical little people who visit the own actions are the cause of their ise of the Sacred Lake. As she waits, of "The Winter Warrior". human world, about people learn- problems and they send Eagle , she hears a voice telling her to Long ago a tribe of fishermen ing how to live in harmony with Falcon and Raven to find the Corn jump higher and higher. She obeys lived in the icy north. Every win- others, and about people having Maidens and to beg them to and opens her eyes to find that she ter they would have to migrate their dreams come true in special return. The birds are unsuccessful has become a mighty eagle. south to escape the power of Old ways. in locating the Corn Maidens, but Giant Northwind. One of the during their search they learn that The Valley fishermen, named Firehawk, Program 1:The Arrival Length: 14:25 Program 2:The Woods only the young flute player who decides to challenge Old Giant As the children walk through Pmgram 3:The Mountain has always remained loyal to the Northwind. He does not feel his a mountain meadow one day, they Program 4:The Valley Corn Maidens can call them back people should have to flee from find many beautiful wild flowers. Program 5:The Stream with his music. As he plays his their best fishing spots because of They beg Grandfather to tell them PUMP= 5: The Gift flute, the Corn Maidens do return the wind's bullying ways. Old and they graciously accept the which is the most beautiful, but he Giant Northwind becomes very apology of the people of the vil- reminds them that the flowers angry when he sees that Firehawk lage. The people promise to hold a don't compete with each other. plans to stay all winter. Using all Amy and Jason are excited special celebration each year to They each have their own kind of his perwer, he tries to destroy about spending a week with their remember the generosity ot the beauty which they offer to the Firehawk, but with courage, grandfather at a youth camp in the Corn Maidens and the lesson they world without asking for anything patience and cleverness, Firehawk mountains. They have invited learned about how to care for the in return. That night the children manages to drive Old Giant their friends, Jenny, Buddy and earth. hear the story of "The Daughter Northwind away. From then on, Michasl to come with them. their of the Sun". the people ate allowed to stay in Uncle George, who is a bronco A young warrior, Sun Cloud, their village all year round and to rider at rodeos, is driving them out wants to marry Snowflower, the enjoy the abundant fish and game to the camp. As they drive, the most beautiful girl in the village. they find there. Unfortunately she is also very children have the opportunity to The Gift ask Uncle George some questions vain. She tells Sun Cloud that in order to win her love, he must Length: 14:25 about the traditional Indian One morning the children customs. Once they arrive at the bring her a Rainbow Rose from the garden to the Tower of the wake up to find that they have camp, they are soon enjoying a big each been given a pair of beaded brealcfast and asking Grandfather Sun. His journey is very difficult, but with the help of a kind girl in moccasins during the night. excited questions about the way Excitedly, they rush off to find Indians lived in the past and what the garden, he is successful. Snowflower scorns his gift, how- Grandfather and to thank him. He it means to be Indian today. After just smiles and shows them the breakfast, Grandfather shows ever, and asks him to cut his hair, the symbol of his manliness. tiny footprints all over the outer them a painted teepee, and pro- covering of the teepee. That night mists that in the evenings to come, When he does so, she ridicules him all the more and refuses once and Grandfather tells them the story he will tell them some of the of "The Spirit Bride" and her lit- stories depicted in the pictures on for all to marry him. Embarrassed and grief- tle friends, the Bogidabigs. the teepee. The children in turn Everyone in the village is wor- promise to do the best they can to stricken, Sun Cloud leaves the "White Mat's Way" village and returns to the Tower of ried about Morningstar, the young earn the stories by helping Grand- girl who claims she can hear trees father and each other. The Mountain the Sun. It is there that he realizes the true beauty arises from inner whispering, the brook singing and Length: 14:25 the voices of the little people-the The Woods qualities. He falls in love with the While hiking in the moun- Bogidabigs. To help Morningstar Length: 14:25 kind 04 who helped him get the tains, Grandfather, Amy and Jason Rainbow Rose because of her learn to work and live like other Because the children have been see an eagle soaring in the sky. As inner rather than outer beauty. people do, the elders gave her the learning about how important it is they tell the other children about At the point she is transformed task of making a new set of clothes to forgive each other for the what they saw, Grandfather into The Daughter of the Sun and for everyone in the village. When mistakes they make, Grandfather explains that the eagle can teach the two of them return to Sun Morningstar begins to work on tells the children the story of "The many lessons. That evening they Cloud's village. Everyone wel- this impossible task, five Corn Maidens" that evening as learn more about those lessons as comes them as the most beautiful Bogidabigs come to help her. they sit in the teepee. This is the Grandfather tells them the story couple they have ever seen, except Everyone is amazed that she story he tells. of the "Great Wolf and Little for Snowflower, whose jealousy has been able to do the work in In the beginning of the world, Mouse Sister". gradually turns her into a bitter, one day, but they are upset to learn the people have only grasses and The story begins with the lonely old woman. that she has gone off into the !peels to eat. They decide to make Great Wolf crying in the meadow woods by herself again, they iferings and pray for something because he had lost his eyes The Stream decide she must marry Hunter and more substantial. Six beautiful through his own foolishness and Length: 14:23 settle down. Morningstar begs to Corn Maidens come to earth to selfishness. Little Mouse Sister As Grandfather and the take one last walk in teach them to grow corn. For a gives him her own eyes, and children rest beside a mountain the forest before she while the people are grateful to the together they set out on a journey must many a man she stream, Grandfather talks to the Corn Maidens and work hard to to find the Sacred Lake and ask for children about some of the lessons doesn't love. As she look after their crops. Then they help for the little blind mouse. sits crying in the forest, the Program 7: The Dare come back and feed them welL" family and children are to the Bogidabigs come to help her. They Program 8: The Buffalo Hunt The boys are called away from Omaha. introduce her to Evergreen the their arrow-making by others who Ni'bthaska and Teson find that spirit of the woods, and the two Morning Comes suggest a rabbit hunt to the both intend to fast as a beginning are married. They return to the Length: 20:00 meadow. The boys make believe of their change from adolescence village with their bogidabigs It is May"the moon in they are on the buffalo hunt, to adulthood as warriors (second friends determined to help the which they plant." We are intro- choose sides and the game/work hill to third hill). The boys talk to people of the village regain their duced to the members of an begins. Ni'bthaska returns to the the uncle about fasting and he ex- sense of wonder and imagination. Omaha family as they begin the lodge with two rabbits that he plains marry of the beliefs of the day. Following the father's morn- killed and one more that was "the tribe including the four hills of life. Warriors ing prayer the family sits for their settling of a bet." Father tells a humorous story about the evils of Becoming a Warrior Length: 57:21 morning meal in an earth lodge. Length: 20:00 Included in the family are the gambling foolishly. Deb Wallwork, Prairie Public father, mother, daughter, son, and Ni'bthaska and Teson let Nibthaska has determined Television grandmother. The boy is 12 to 13 curiosity get the best of them and today he will begin the rite of Non'zhinzho His mind has Since World War I, Native years of age, just entering puberty. decide to hide in the sacred tent to American Indians have served in The girl is 9 years of age. Included see the sacred Turning of the Child turned white. It is time he enter the United States Armed Forces. with the family are an older daugh- ceremony on the next day. into a personal relationship with Wakonda. The other family During the Vietnam War, close to ter, her husband and their small 90% of the 86,000 who enlisted daughter, just learning to walk. Inning of the Child members are busy with their volunteered, giving Native The boy's cousin is also present. Length: 20:00 routines. The boy takes the bow Americans the highest record of Discussion at the meal centers The young child is being pre- and arrow that has been prepared for him by his father. He quickly service per-capita of any ethnic around the tasks of all of the pared for the Turning of the Child group. Over half served in combat. members of the family and the Ceremony which marks the end leaves the lodge and passes through Why were so many Native two most important events for the of infanthood and the beginning the village avoiding contact with Americans willing to go fight in Omahathe planting of the corn of the second stage 'or any other person. American's most controversial and the summer buffalo hunt. It is of life. In the meantime, the family war? What is their view of Viet- decided that Ni'bthaska, the boy, We see Inshta'sonwin take the prepares for the buffalo hunt. A nam twenty years later? Hear will have to stay home from the child to the keepers sacred tent for distant mlative visits and during Indian veterans discuss their per- hunt to care for the grandmother the ceremony. The keeper is ccnversation reveals that a sonal experiences in Vietnam and who is no longer able to go. presented a fine quilled robe woune:ed bea is near the bluffs. the difficulties they still face. War- As the father and boys go to which Grandmother has made for Nebtluska's father quickly riors is a moving video, honest, their tasks the Herald announces the occasion. The Child, carrying realizes thst his son is fasting near humorous, sincere, and unflin- the planting of the corn and the her new moccasins enters the tent. the art and that he may be in dan- ching. It is a portrait of contem- ger. He and the.itor quickly womet. prvare for the planting as At the conclusion of the porary Indian people caught in the they teach the younger children a gather bows and arrows and race ceremony young child now has off on horses to find the bear. The cross currents of American song to make the corn grow. her ni'kie name (Mi'wason) and a history, fmding their traditional father returns to camp first. feast is held at the family lodge. ways the key to understanding and Ni'bthaska walks in quietly later Just as the family notices that moving forward. looking very tired and dirty. He Ni'bthaska and Teson are missing says nothing but gives a light smile the keeper brings the boys to the to Isis father who likewise says We Are OneA Series lodge explaining that they had nothing. 1936 desecrated the sacred tent by try- Nebthaska and his father are Teacher's Guide ing to sneak inside for the talking about the incident with ceremony. The boy's fathers agree the bear. Ni'bthaska relates an Produced by: Chet with the keeper that they must be Kincade/Nebraska Educational incident that seems to him a punished so as to learn respect for dream. His father realizes the Television Network for the the sacred articles of the tribe. Nebraska Ct,partment of significance of his vision and takes The boys fear they will be him to see the elder. Education-ITV Services struck by lightning but the elder A series about the life and decides on a punishment that will Preparing for the Summer Hunt culture of a Native American cause them to help and teach their length: 20:00 family in early 19th century young cousins the ways of the The village is making prepara- Nebraska. tribe. These eight, 20-minute lessons tions for the hunt. Valuables left are designed to bring to life the behind are buried in caches to pro- richness and complodty of Native Storytelling tect them from raids by other American culturein particular, The Trial of Standing Bear Length: 20:00 tribes and to preserve them until the tribe returns from the hunt. the Omaha culture. Learning from Others The "First Thunders" or first The elderly and the sick will The programs focus on Length: 20:00 rain storm of the spring has the 13-year-old Ni'bathaska and his family inside the lodge as the remain behind. Others will stay to The lesson begins at the lodge protect and care for those who younger sister Mi'onbathin, and of an uncle who is renowned as an children are entertained by uncle on the daily rituals and rites of who is an excellent story-teller. cannot go. Ni'bthaska has been arrow maker. Ni'bthaska and one assigned to stay because he has passage that make up their lives. Teson learn to make arrows and Uncle tells "true" stories and explains that each story has its an elderly grandmother who has Program 1: Morning Comes listen to stories that they are not chosen not to go on the hunt. Program 2: Learning from Others sure whether or not to believe. season when it must be told. When the rain stops the stories Mi'onbathin begs Grand- Program 3: Turning of the Child The scene switches to the mother to fmd a way to go on the ROM 4: Storytelling fields where Mother and oldest stop as there is work for all. Mother and daughter go to the hunt and offers the use of travois PrOVIM 5: Becoming daughter are teaching the youngest but grandmother declines saying a Warrior daughter the secrets of planting river for water. Mother explains the necessity of an escort for she will walk proudly to her death Program 6: Preparing the corn, as Grandmother taught and not be pulled. for the Summer Hunt them, so that "it will remember to young girls and how precious the Inshtethinke, the "Teaser" has work removing the tongue. took place across the United N learned that Ni'bthaska has to say Later, Ni'bthaska is "caught" States. E. W to care for his aging grandmother with the sight of a girl he has not In the heart of what was once Wiping the Tears of Seven seen before and exclaims to Pawnee Indian countryGenoa and consequently will not earn Generations "warrior" status from participa- himself that he is going to make a Nebraskawas built the U.S. tion in the hunt. Ni'bthaska flute 2S she is who he will marry. Indian School, a government- Length: 60:00 shows his dignity and the respect supported military-style school for "A film that could be the first for his grandmother by hiding his Whispers Series se Indian children from more than 20 of its genre to recond...not disappointment. tribes. Here they were taught the rewrite...history from the Lakota White Man's language, traditions perspective. For the first time in The Dare and lifestyles and were forbidden film, the true story of the Length: 20:00 The Chumash to practice their own. Wounded Knee Massacre:' THE The telelesson opens with a Length: 30:00 LAKOTA TIMES view of the Omaha Tribe on the This program is a first in a Winds of Change Series9 trail to the Buffalo Country. We series of programs about the Woonspe (Education and the see the tribe through the eyes of Indigenous people of California Sioux) Nebthaska and his niece called "Whispers." The program Length: 27:451974 Mi'wason who he has taken up on A Matter of Promises takes the viewer into the world of Produced by: South Dakota ETV a hill to watch the march. The the Chumash Indian community Length: 60:00 Woonspe is the Dakota word tribe moves as one across the of Southern California. Through Viewers meet members of the for "lesson." This film explores endless prairie. interviews and archive footage the Onondaga, Navajo and Lummi the problem of Native American After camp has been reached producer shows how the modern leadership, including Audrey education. It examines the his- Inshta'sonwin and Meonbathin Chumash have preserved their Shenandoah, clan mother, who torical significance and advantages are digging wild turnips to dry for culture, dance and folklore. categorically states that she has later use. They discuss legends lived within the geopolitical and disadvantages of the four about how the Omaha learned boundaries of the U.S. but has school systems available to Native which plants to use. never considered herself Americans: BIA boarding schools, A suggestion leads to a game of public schools, tribal contract The GabrielinolTongva "American:' Interviews with Dare and Inshti'thinke, the schools, and mission schools. Length: 30:00 tribal members reveal that they "Teaser", must steal the ball from maintain a wary co-existence This program is the second in the girls game. He succeeds but in within the larger American a series of programs about the his embarrassment makes an culture. The program documents Indigenous people of California overly-dangerous dare that almost external and internal forces that called "Whispers." This episode of costs Teson his life. threaten their national sovereignty. the series portrays cultural survival. After Teson is rescued by A brief history of political activ- Ni'bthaska, Mi'onbathin and the of The Gabrielino/Tongva native ism features archival footage as people. These indigenous people "Teaser", Father lectures the youth veil as more in-depth examina- are former inhabitants of the on respect for life and tribe, games tions of how Indian institutions coastal region of Los Angeles as preparation for life and winning are designed to resist outside solu- County, the Northwest portion of or losing of honor, tions to internal strife. Orange County and off lying The Buffalo Hunt islands. Length: 20:00 The summer buffalo hunt was 16111L1.-- A Matter of Choice the single most important yearly Length: 60:00 event in the lives of the Omaha. Viewers travel to the home of We see the scouts running back to the Hopi Nation, the oldest con- camp in a criss-cross fashion as a tinuously inhabited community in signal announcing the location of America in an effort to understand buffalo. In camp, final prepara- their struggle to find their place in tions for the hunt. Special rituals 6. thc modern world. Candid inter- are being completed. As the hunt views with Hopi Tribe members is very sacred, we are unable to offer rare insights into the personal show most of the rituals involved. side of acculturation and assimila- Each aspect of the hunt is carefully tion. Special attention is paid to planned according to tradition and the remarkable importance of ceremony including the way the women and "uncles" in the Hopi buffalo was butchered. social structure. The very survival Ni'bthaska and Inshti'thinke of the Hopi and hundreds of other (the "Teaser") have earned the sovereign Indian nations is threat- honor of securing the buffalo ened by the exodus of their youth heart and the tongues. They reach "We Are One" to the cities. Fifty percent of the the first downed buffalo and begin Indian population now live in White Man's Way their work when Ni'bthaska sees cities and 50 percent have inter- an injured buffalo charging at Length: 30:001986 racial marriages. them and in the last seconds makes Produced by: Christine Lesiak/ the decision to save the "Teaser", Nebraska Educational Television his competitor, by shoving him Network out of the path of the buffalo. Beginning in the late I800's, Ni'bthaska suffers some injury to an experiment that endeavored to 'himself as the buffalo charges over transform the American Indian 28 him but in bravery returns to "from savagery into civilization" Native / American Public Broadcasting Consortium

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