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Native American F lm+Video Festival 1997 Festival Information: NMAI Administration Electronic Media Project Team All festival programs are free. W. Richard West (Southern Marty Kreipe de Montaño Seating is limited and for all day­ Cheyenne), Director (Prairie Band Potawatomi), Head time programs is based on a first of Resource Center come, first served basis. Charlotte Heth (Cherokee), Reservations must be made for Assistant Director for Public Alfreda Beartrack (Lower Brule evening programs held at NMAI Programs Sioux), Film and Video Center and at the American Indian Community House, and for Native John Haworth (Cherokee), Deputy Gaetana de Gennaro (Tohono America Calling broadcasts at the Assistant Director for Public O’odham), Resource Center Museum of Television & Radio. Programs, GGHC NMAI Charter Members are given Stewart Sarkozy-Banoczy, Web priority for reservations made Festival Directors consultant before October 17th. Call 212-514­ Elizabeth Weatherford, Head of 3737 for information and Film and Video Center Radio Program Project Team reservations. Charmaine Jackson (Diné), Film Emelia Seubert, Assistant Curator and Video Center To request assistance for the hearing impaired, call festival Festival Guest Selectors Nan Rubin, radio consultant and information (212-514-3737) by Paul Apodaca (-Mexican), board member, NAPT October 1st. curator and professor High School Program Visit our Web site at Juanita Espinosa (Dakota-), Project Team www.si.edu/nmai_film+video and Director, Native Arts Circle Johanna Gorelick, Head of the NMAI’s live Web site at Education Department, NMAI www.conexus.si.edu. Alberto Muenala (Quichua), independent filmmaker Kristi Schultz, High School Directions: Program Coordinator The National Museum of the Shelley Niro (Mohawk), inde­ American Indian, George Gustav pendent filmmaker/multimedia Festival Staff Support Heye Center is located at One artist Dan Davis, Technical Coordinator Bowling Green adjacent to the northeast corner of Battery Park. FVC Selectors George McGuire, Manager, NCC Erica C. Wortham, Coordinator, Subway: IRT-4/5 to Bowling Latin American Selections Lori Dynan, Festival Special Events Green; IRT-1/9 to South Ferry; N/R to Whitehall Street. Carol Kalafatic (Quechua-Spanish- Angela Diggs, Administrative Bus: Ml, M6to Bowling Green Croatian), Coordinator, Native Assistant Park; M15 to South Ferry. Networks

Ruth von Goeler, Festival Coordinator

NMAI INFORMATION 212 514 3737 www.si.edu/nmai_film+video Festival Staff Support Acknowledgements Lillian Jimenez, independent media - continued The Festival organizers wish to consultant; Scott Rosenfeldt, thank the following for their Shadowcatcher Productions; Randy Nodwesj Red Bear (Rosebud assistance: Ross, independent media Sioux-Ottawa), Departmental consultant; Faye Ginsburg, Secretary Frank Blythe, Native American Program in Culture and Media, Public Telecommunications; New York University; Catherine Annie Teamer (Cherokee), NMAI Rosemary Richmond, Joanna Benamou, Duke University; Volunteers Coordinator Osburn Bigfeather, and Jim Guillermo Monteforte, CVI Centro Cyrus, American Indian de Video Indígena, Oaxaca; Jorge Estevez (Taino), Public Community House; Kenneth Claudia Hernandez, The New Programs Assistant Mueller and Chris Catanese, Museum; Karen Ranucci, IMRE; Museum of Television & Radio; Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Sponsors Kathy Brew, Thundergulch; Festival; Pam Roberts, Rattlesnake The Festival and Native Networks Patricia Boero, Sundance Productions; R.H. Red Owl, Long Symposium have been made Institute; Juan García de Oteyza Island University; Christine possible by support from The Ford and Bernice Gonzalez de León, Halvorsen, Amanaka’a; Melissa Foundation; the John D. and Mexican Cultural Institute; Lilie Tardiff, Indigo Information Catherine T. MacArthur Zendel, Canadian Consulate Designers; the NMAI departments Foundation; the Mexican Cultural General; Ward Chamberlain and whose assistance has been essential Institute and the Mexican Anne Gorfinkel, Thirteen/WNET; to this event; Carole Lazio, FVC Government Tourism Office; the Lisa Heller and Doug Chang, Archival Consultant; John Canadian Consulate General and P.O.V.; Samori Marksman and Humphrey, Volunteer the Canadian Department of Valerie van Islen, WBAI-FM; Extraordinaire; and the many others Foreign Affairs and International Marrie Mumford, Banff Center for who have made this event possible. Trade; NAPT Native American the Arts; Public Telecommunications; and Thirteen/WNET.

Wichan: El Jucio/Wichan: The Trial The 10th Native American Film Thursday, October 30 and Video Festival is presented by the Film and Video Center of Thundergulch the National Museum of the Native Interactive American Indian in New York City at the George Gustav Heye Presented in cooperation with Center and at three other sites: Thundergulch the American Indian Community 12:30-1:30 pm House, the Museum of Television Tuscarora multimedia artist The Prayer of Thanksgiving & Radio, and Thundergulch. The Melanie Printup Hope showcases her CD-ROM The Monday, October 27­ Festival celebrates the range of Prayer of Thanksgiving and November 9 independent and tribal Marty Kreipe de Montaño community productions about (Prairie Band Potawatomi) Rotunda demonstrates NMAI’s live Native peoples of the Americas Web site project, Conexus as Multimedia Art and Hawai’i, and focuses on part of the electronic media series “lunchtime@the wall.” productions by Native media The Prayer of Thanksgiving makers and those that strongly Thundergulch, Lobby of 55 A multimedia installation piece by Tuscarora artist Broad Street (one street east reflect Native viewpoints. The Melanie Printup Hope of NMAI at Beaver St.). Festival showcases productions employs new technology to in film, video, radio and express traditions and television, and electronic media. view. Screening programs were chosen by invited selectors---Native American filmmakers and cultural activists---and the program staff of the Film and Video Center. Additional NMAI staff and advisors developed radio, electronic media, and high school programs.

OCTOBER 30 – NOVEMBER 9 Thursday, October 30 Discussant: Alberto Muenala (Quichua), independent filmmaker Auditorium and founding director, Festival of Abya Yala, Quito, Ecuador Native Networks Friday, October 31 Symposium on Indigenous Media in the Age of Globalization Auditorium Y Nuevamente Partieron/ And They Left Again 1-5 pm Native Media and Community 1-5 pm New Technologies and Native Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), Project Native media initiatives in the Director, The Cradleboard Knowledge Americas – community-based and Teaching Project (invited) national – explore alternatives for Electronic media projects are communications and Native voice. examined in the light of issues of access and cultural copyright. Discussant: Loretta Todd (Cree Métis), independent filmmaker Moderator: Paul Apodaca (Navajo- Mexican), curator and scholar Moderator: Frank Blythe (Sioux- Cherokee), Director, NAPT Native Juanita Espinosa (Dakota-Ojibwe), American Public Directory Native Arts Circle, Telecommunications Minneapolis Randy Ross (Ponca-Otoe Missouria), independent network Camille Lacapa (-Tewa- consultant Ojibwe), Program Manager, WOJB-Radio, Wisconsin Glenn Morrison (Mohawk), Director, First Nations Juan José García (Zapotec), CVI Confederation of Cultural Indigenous Video Center, Mexico Education Centers, Ontario

Vincent Carelli, CTI Center for Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek), Indigenous Work, Brazil independent radio and multimedia producer Iván Sanjinés, Director, CEFREC Media Production and Training James H. May (United Keetoowah Center, Bolivia Band), Institute for Indigenous Science, Language, and Culture, Ana Vilacama (Quechua), State University at National Indigenous Plan for Monterey Bay Communications, Bolivia

SYMPOSIUM OCTOBER 30 – 31 Limited seating. Reservations Collector’s Room recommended. Media in Native Introductions by the directors. Communities Auditorium 7-10 pm Media by Native producers for and Looking Homeward about their own communities articulate concerns about language, Qatuwas: People Gathering Together 7-10 pm media, and cultural continuity. Connections to community inspire Qatuwas: People Gathering two new films by award-winning Hocak Ecology directors. Together (1997, 21 min.) Daryl Lonetree (1996, 59 min.) Barb Cranmer (Hocak-lowa-Dakota). (‘Namgis). The Heiltsuk people Picturing a People: George play a role in the renaissance of Johnston, Tlingit Photographer A community production Northwest Coast canoe culture as (1997, 52 min.) Carol Geddes imaginatively teaches Hocak they undertake a historic journey. (Tlingit). George Johnston, who (Winnebago) language and values. U.S. Premiere. made a unique photographic record New York Premiere. Introduced by of his people during a time of Kenneth Funmaker, Sr. (Hocak), change, is remembered by a Head of Hocak Wazijaci Language filmmaker from his village. U.S. and Culture Program. Premiere. Tem Que Ser Curioso/You Have Backbone of the World: to be Curious The Blackfeet (1996, 16 min.) Caimi Waiassé (1997, 57 min.) George Burdeau (Xavante), In Portuguese with (Blackfeet). A filmmaker English subtitles. The videomaker documents coming home to his comments on the introduction of tribe and its history, while video documentation to his village reflecting on his role as a media in the Brazilian Amazon. U.S. maker in the community. New Premiere. York Premiere. Introduced by the director and the line producer Darren Kipp (Blackfeet).

FRIDAY EVENING OCTOBER 31 Auditorium 2:00 Stolen Waters 10:30 Nasa Tul: La Huerta (1996, 27 min.) Puhipau (Native Nasa/Nasa TuI: The Páez Protecting Land and Hawaiian) and Joan Lander. Native Garden Hawaiians on Oahu mobilize to (1996, 24 min.) Jesús Bosque for Water restore waters diverted by industry CRIC Regional Indigenous at the turn of the century. New Council of Cauca. In Páez and Introductions by media makers and York Premiere. Introduced by Liz Spanish with English subtitles. In festival selectors unless otherwise Ho’oipo Martin (Native Hawaiian), Colombia small gardens sur­ noted. Executive Producer. rounding Páez homes are central to their way of life. U.S. 10:30 Power 2:45 Placa Não Fala/Signs Don’t Premiere. (1996, 76 min.) Magnus Isacsson. Speak A behind-the-scenes account of the (1996, 27 min.) Dominique Gallois 11:15 Basketweavers: Cree’s five-year struggle against and Vincent Carelli. In Waiapi and A Tribute to Three Elders the Great Whale hydroelectric Portuguese with English subtitles. (1994-5, 59 min.) David Ludwig. A project in northern Quebec. The Waiapi of the Brazilian detailed view of Pomo Amazon assert sovereignty through basketweaving in northern 12:00 Y Nuevamente their own land demarcation California features profiles of the Partieron/And They Left Again initiative. New York Premiere. remarkable artists Laura Somersal, (1997, 21 min.) Adrian Waldmann Elsie Allen, and Mabel McKay. for APCOB Support for the 3:30 Tierra Madre/Sacred Earth New York Premiere. Indigenous Peasants of Eastern (1996, 54 min.) Mary Ellen Davis. Bolivia. In Spanish with English In Q’eqchi and Spanish with 12:30 Punalka: El Alto Biobio/ subtitles. The story of a sacred English subtitles. In Guatemala Punalka: The Upper Biobio mountain provides the backdrop for Q’eqchi Maya struggle to retain (1995, 26 min.) Jeannette Paillan a documentary about the historic rights to the land despite continued (Mapuche). In Mapudungun with 1996 March for Territorial Rights disruption and threats of violence. English subtitles. Contemporary in Bolivia. World Premiere. New York Premiere. Mapuche ways of life in Chile’s Biobío River Valley, impressionis­ 12:45 Laxwesa Wa: Strength of Collector’s Room tically filmed, are being threatened the River by a hydro-electric project. (1995, 54 min.) Barb Cranmer U.S. Premiere. (‘Namgis). On the Northwest Coast Our Way of Life of Canada Sto:lo, Heiltsuk and 1:30 Ayouwin: A Way of Life Introductions by media makers and ‘Namgis people discuss fishing (1996, 28 min.) Paul Rickard festival selectors unless otherwise traditions and their current efforts (Cree). In Cree with English sub­ noted. to build a sustainable fishery. New titles. In northern Canada the York Premiere. videomaker documents his father who still follows the old ways of hunting and trapping. U.S. Premiere.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 Collector’s Room 11:30 City of Dreams 3:00 Jim Northrup: With - continued (1995, 28 min.) Jorge Manzano. A Reservations drama tells the life story of a (1996, 28 min.) Mike Hazard and 2:15 Mino-Bimadiziwin: The creative young Cree man whose Mike Rivard for the Native Arts Good Life life is lost to the streets of urban Circle. An Ojibwe writer and (1997, 58 min.) Deb Wallwork. On Canada. New York Premiere. columnist pays tribute to life on the the White Earth Reservation in “rez” with ironic humor and deep Minnesota, the Ojibwe retain 12:15 Paulina y el Condor/ affection. New York Premiere. important connections to the Paulina and the Condor Introduced by Juanita Espinosa harvesting and use of wild rice. (1995, 10 min.) Marisol (Dakota-Ojibwe), Executive New York Premiere. Barragan. In Spanish with Producer. English subtitles. Animation. An 3:30 Yakwa: O Banquete dos Aymara girl takes a fateful journey Espíritos/Yakwa: The Banquet of from the high plains of the Spirits Bolivia to La Paz. U.S. Premiere. (1995, 54 min.) Virginia Valadão. In Enauêne-Nawê with English 12:45 Holy Elk and Iron Nation subtitles. An elaborate seven­ (1996/7, 17 min. together) Alfreda month-long ritual is performed by Beartrack (Lower Brule Sioux). the Enauêne-Nawê of Brazil to Animations. Two short works protect community and their natural honor Plains Indian leaders of the resources. past. New York Premieres.

Video Viewing Room 1:30 Spider’s Web (1995, 30 min.) Angela Jones (Washoe) and Michon Eben Transitions (Paiute-). A production Jim Northup: With Reservations featuring young Washoe people of Introductions by media makers and explores the value of festival selectors unless otherwise traditional wisdom for today’s noted. world. New York Premiere.

11:00 En Camino/On the Move 2:15 Totem Talk (1997, 14 min.) Elisabeth (1997, 22 min.) Annie Frazier- Huttermann and Jesus Perez. Henry (Sioux-Blackfoot-French). Animation. A rural Aymara family Clan totems, brought to life through moves through Bolivia in search of computer animation, teach urban a good place to live. U.S. Premiere. youth the importance of traditional Northwest Coast values. U.S. Premiere.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1 Limited seating. Reservations Ajayu/Spirit recommended. (1996, 26 min.) Francisco Ormachea G. In Aymara with Introductions by the directors. English subtitles. An evocation of the Aymara afterlife shows death as Auditorium an experience shared by the community and the souls of the dead. New York Premiere. Focus on Fiction Real Indian

7-10 pm Collector’s Room Spudwrench-Kahnawake Man New narrative films from Bolivia (1997, 60 min.) Alanis Obomsawin and Canada explore humor, Telling Our Stories (Abenaki). Interviews, archival betrayal, life and death. material, and footage shot behind 7-10 pm barricades weave a portrait of Supaya: El Diablo Bueno/ Works explore questions of iden­ Randy Home and the Mohawk Supaya: The Good Devil tity, community, and the many community of Kabnawake, a (1996, 11 min.) Inocencio Ramos faces of Native American people. stronghold of tradition and (Páez). In Spanish with English legendary in producing generations subtitles. A “trickster” character of Real Indian of high-steel workers. World Aymara legend fools one person in (1996, 8 min.) Malinda M. Maynor Premiere. order to help the whole community. (Lumbee). When a filmmaker looks U.S. Premiere. at her heritage, she questions stereotypes and assumptions about Angeles de to Tierra/Angels of racial categories. the Earth (1997, 20 min.) Patricio Luna Hózhó of Native Women (Aymara). In Spanish with English (1997, 28 min.) Beverly Singer subtitles. A young man encounters (Tewa-Navajo). Four women, in discrimination and betrayal when grassroots programs concerned he migrates to the city of with healing, tell their stories. New Cochabamba. U.S. Premiere. York Premiere.

Silent Tears (1997, 28 min.) Shirley Cheechoo (Cree). Based on the filmmaker’s own life, a family faces a life-and­ death situation in the backwoods of northern Canada. U.S. Premiere.

SATURDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 1 Auditorium 2:15 Forgotten Warriors 11:00 Whose Child Is This? (1996, 48 min.) Loretta Todd (Cree (1996, 50 min.) Jerry Thompson. Serving Our Nations Métis). A documentary brings to Diverse personal stories explore the light the experiences of Canada’s issues surrounding the adoption of First Nations veterans including Native children by non-Native Introductions by media makers and those who lost their aboriginal parents. New York Premiere. festival selectors unless otherwise rights after serving in WWII. New noted. York Premiere. 12:15 Then There Were None (1996, 27 min.) Elizabeth 11:00 First Nation Blue 3:30 A’walas Yu’it’s: Estrellas y Kapu’uwailani Lindsey (Native (1996, 48 min.) Daniel Prouty. Lagunas/A’walas Yu’it’s: Hawaiian). A documentary Native police officers share their Stars and Lagoons examines the history of Native experiences working in First (1997, 24 min.) Marlenys de la C. Hawai’i and the drastic changes Nations communities in Ontario. Villamar for Sol Y Tierra caused by the non-Natives who New York Premiere. Foundation and CRIC Regional settled there. Introduced by Lurline Indigenous Council of Cauca. In McGregor (Native Hawaiian), 12:00 My Name is Kahentiiosta Spanish with English subtitles. Executive Director, Pacific (1995, 30 min.) Alanis Obomsawin Páez creation stories provide a Islanders in Communications. (Abenaki). The depth of one counterpoint to an exploration of woman’s Mohawk values and the community’s approach to jus­ 1:00 The Voyage Home identity are revealed as she tice and punishment. U.S. (1996, 56 min.) Karin Williams recounts her experience during the Premiere. Introduced by Daniel (Cook Islands). The first double- recent crisis at Oka, Quebec. New Piñacué (Páez), Sol Y Tierra hulled Hawaiian canoe to be made York Premiere. Foundation, Colombia. of wood in centuries sails the Northwest Coast. New York 12:45 Storytellers of the 4:15 Wichan: El Juicio/ Premiere. Pacific: Self-Determination Wichan: The Trial (1996, 60 min.) George Burdeau (1994-5, 27 min.) Maga Meneses. 2:15 In Whose Honor? (Blackfeet), Heather Haunani- In Mapudungun and Spanish with (1997, 58 min.) Jay Rosenstein. Giugni (Native Hawaiian), Phil English subtitles. A short drama set Documenting the story of Charlene Lucas (Choctaw), Lurline in the past tells a story of how the Teters (Spokane) whose protests McGregor (Native Hawaiian) and Mapuche dealt with wrongdoing in against a university mascot sparked Maria Yator (Maori). The continu­ the community. New York a national movement, this film ing struggles of Native peoples are Premiere. gives an account of Indian seen in five profiles from commu­ stereotyping in mainstream U.S.A. nities in the Pacific Rim — the Nisqually of the Northwest Coast, Collector’s Room 3:30 A Traditional Kind of Native Hawaiians, Maori of New Woman: Too Much, Not ‘Nuff Zealand, Seri of the Sonoran Identities (1997, 45 min.) Lance Richmond Desert, and Aleuts of Alaska’s (Mohawk). A performance piece by Pribiloff Islands. Introductions by media makers and the Colorado Sisters explores festival selectors unless otherwise health concerns - from bad eating noted. habits to AIDS - faced by Native women. World Premiere.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 Video Viewing Room 2:30 The Sixth Sun: Mayan Uprising in Chiapas Voces de México/ (1996, 56 min.) Saul Landau. In Spanish with English subtitles. This Mexican Voices chronicle of the Zapatista uprising includes interviews with key Introductions by media makers and figures and grounds the conflict in festival selectors unless otherwise questions of democracy and social noted. change. New York Premiere.

10:30 The Five Suns: A Sacred Asi Es Mi Tierra/ My Homeland Is Like This 3:45 Desplazados par la Violencia History of Mexico Politica/Displaced by Political (1996, 59 min.) Patricia Amlin. 1:00 Así Es Mi Tierra/My Violence Animatation. Ancient Aztec Homeland Is Like This (1997, 62 min.) Carlos Martinez S. iconography is used to tell creation (1996, 24 min.) Juan José García Recently forced into exile, myths and sacred stories of Aztec (Zapotec). In Mixe and Spanish members of the San Pedro and other peoples of central with English subtitles. Traditional Nichtalucum community testify to Mexico. New York Premiere. healers from San Cristobal violent aggression and reclaim their Chichicaxtepec, Oaxaca, explain homes. U.S. Premiere. 11:45 Tepú their approach to healing and (1995, 27 min.) Juan Francisco demonstrate a variety of remedies Urrusti. In Huichól and Spanish for illnesses. U.S. Premiere. with English subtitles. At the invitation of a Mexico City based 1:45 Moojk/Corn filmmaker, a Huichól mara’acame (1996, 21 min.) Tito Antúnez visits the city’s ancient foundations Núñez. (Mixe). In Mixe with and performs a healing ceremony English subtitles. For the Mixe of for the ailing urban environment. Oaxaca, corn is central to their connection to Mother Earth as well 12:30 Espiritualidad as a basic source of sustenance. Mixe/Mixe Spirituality New York Premiere. Introduced by (1996, 6 min.) Carlos Martinez M. Genaro Rojas R. (Mixe). (Zapotec). In Mixe with English subtitles. Members of the Mixe community explore their relationship to nature and Catholic ritual as fundamental elements of their spirituality. World Premiere.

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2 Saturday and Sunday Dakota Language Project November 1 and 2 Darren Renville (Dakota), Sisseton-Wahpeton Community Meeting Room 2, College, South Dakota Basement Walking the Red Road: A Multimedia Exploration of Lakota Native America Wired Culture Randy Ross (Ponca-Otoe 1-4 pm Missouria), project consultant New projects on the Web and CD­ ROM explore tribal languages and Conexus/NMAI values. I’ve Been Bingoe-ed By My Baby Marty Kreipe de Montaño (Prairie Band Potawatomi), Presentations: Head, Resource Center, NMAI Multimedium and the Web: In Support of Tribal Knowledge Introduced by Alfreda Beartrack James H. May (United Keetoowah (Lower Brule Sioux), Film and Band), California State University Video Center and Gaetana de at Monterey Bay Gennaro (Tohono O’odham), Resource Center, NMAI Preserving Culture Through Multimedia Randy Tallmadge and Kenneth Funmaker, Sr. (Hocak), Hocak Wazijaci Language and Culture Program, Wisconsin

NOVEMBER 1 - 2 Circle of Red Nations Native America Calling Gustavo Raven Silva (Aymara- Tom Beaver (Muscogee Creek), Mapuche), Producer/host, WBAI­ host, Albuquerque FM, New York Introduced by: Nan Rubin, radio Radio in Tamazulapam-Mixe consultant and board member, Genaro Rojas Ramirez (Mixe), NAPT Native American Public Producer, TAMIX, Oaxaca, Telecommunications, and Mexico Charmaine Jackson (Dine), Film and Video Center, NMAI Punalka: El Alto Biobio/ The Sounds of WOJB Punalka: The Upper Biobio Camille Lacapa (Hopi-Tewa. Resource Center, 2nd Ojibwe), Program Manager, Floor and Meeting Saturday and Sunday WOJB-FM, Wisconsin November 1 and 2 Rooms, Basement The Great Law of Peace Meeting Room 1 Jake Swamp (Mohawk), tribal Radio and Electronic Basement elder, St. Regis Reservation, New Media Browsing York Making Waves: 11 am-5 pm National Native News Native Radio Projects Browse Native American Web Nellie Moore (Inupiat), sites, CD-ROMs and radio Producer/host, Anchorage programs at individual stations. 1-4 pm Information on Web sites and Tribal community and national American Indian Music Services internet, multimedia productions Native radio provide strong links to John Gregg (Hopi-Inupiat), AIROS and radio will be available. the community and express the American Indian Radio on power of Native voice. Satellite, Nebraska

Screening: The Importance of Aboriginal Radio Waves Communications in First Nations (1995, 16 min,) Joe Beardy Communities (Bearskin Lake) for the Amos Key (Mohawk-Onondaga), Aboriginal Film and Video Art Director, First Nations Alliance of Ontario Communication and Language Program, Woodlands Cultural Presentations: Center, Ontario California Indians Radio Project Peggy Berryhill (Muscogee Creek), Executive Producer, California The Sixth Sun

NOVEMBER 1 - 2 Museum of Television & 2:00 pm Native America Calling, Radio Making Waves: Native Radio in not regularly aired on the East the Age of Globalization Coast, will be nationally broadcast Award-winning producers discuss on Monday, November 3 through Native America Calling: the future of Native radio. Thursday, November 6 from 1-2 Live from New York! pm EST before a live audience in Moderator: Peggy Berryhill New York at the Museum of Reservations are required for free (Muscogee Creek), independent Television & Radio. Audiences can admission; call 212-514-3737. radio and multimedia producer, also participate in the broadcast at California NMAI (Video Viewing Room). Presented in cooperation with the Native America Calling will be Third Annual Radio Festival Harlan McKosato (Sac and Fox), aired in New York by WBAI-99.5 producer/director, Native America FM on Monday, November 3 at 1 12:30 pm Calling, Albuquerque pm. Listener call-in number: 1-800­ Native America Calling 99-NATIV or 1-800-996-2848. Participate in a live broadcast of the Nellie Moore (Inupiat), nation’s first Native American producer/host, National Native Museum of Television & Radio, daily call-in radio talk show with News, Anchorage Mark Goodson Theater and host Tom Beaver (Muscogee Ralph Guild Radio Studio, Creek). Today’s guest media 25 W. 52nd St. Subway: IRT-6 makers engage in a national to 50th St; IND-E/F to Fifth discussion of current issues in Ave. Bus M1 (Madison Native film and video. Native Ave/Fifth Ave) to 52nd St. America Calling (KUNM-FM, Albuquerque) is syndicated nationally, and opens daily with National Native News.

Pomo Basketweavers: A Tribute to Three Elders

OFF-SITE MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 American Indian I’ve Been Bingo-ed By My Baby Buffalo Bone China Community House (AICH) (1996, 3 min.) Nora Naranjo-Morse (1997, 12 min.) Dana Claxton (Tewa-Pueblo). A music video of (Lakota). An experimental video Navajo balladeer Vincent Craig’s metaphorically recalls First Nations Video Arts at AICH “Rita” pairs the image of the peoples’ loss of the buffalo and the seductive woman with Indian historical use of buffalo bone to Presented in cooperation with the gaming. New York Premiere. make fine china. U.S. Premiere. American Indian Community House Indian Having a Coffee with Jack A Nation Is Coming Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and (1996, 24 min.) Kent Monkman 7 pm Ernest Hemingway (Métis Cree). A performance video Reception at the AICH (1996, 22 min.) James Luna explores parallels between current Gallery/Museum (2nd floor) (Luiseño). By evoking the Beats as and 19th-century changes facing cultural icons, a performance on Native people. Co-created with 8 pm video appears as an informal choreographer-performer Michael Screening at the AICH Circle roundtable on Native nonconfor­ Greyeyes (Plains Cree). New York (8th floor) mity and freedom. New York Premiere. Premiere. Reservations for seating are American Indian Community required; call 212-514-3737. House (8th floor) and Gallery/Museum (2nd floor), Introduced by filmmakers Lance 708 Broadway. Subway: N, R Richmond (Mohawk) and Shelley to 8th St.; IRT-6 to Astor Niro (Mohawk) Place. Bus: Ml, M6 to 8th St.; M15 from South Ferry to Astor The Hunt Place. (1997, 10 min.) Tamara Bell Iron Nation (Haida) with M. Greg McCall. In Cree with English subtitles. A comedy short follows three bumbling hunters lost in the woods. U.S. Premiere.

Overweight with Crooked Teeth (1997, 5 min.) Shelley Niro (Mohawk). An experimental video frames issues of Native identity by reversing stereotypes. U.S. Premiere.

OFF-SITE MONDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 3