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Publisher
Distributed by BCI Eclipse Co
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"From the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century to the English colonists of the 18th, the settling of America often came at the cost of Native American blood. But the 350-year conflict between European settlers and Indian natives reached its apex with the territorial expansions of the 19th century, when the notion of Manifest Destiny justified a series of battles and massacres that virtually wiped out the indigenous population. This five-part...
3) The doe boy
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Hunter, a half white, half Native American teenager, stuggles with his identity and the hemophilia that drives a wedge between himself, his family and his community.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Native American leaders and chiefs such as Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Geronimo, and Quanah Parker; chronicles the history of the six Native American nations of the Iroquois, the Seminoles, the Shawnee, the Navajo, the Cheyenne, and the Lakota Sioux.
5) 500 nations
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact.
Publisher
Indian Land tenure Foundation
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"The film powerfully highlights efforts to redress more than a century's worth of legal and political moves undermining Indian land ownership and sovereignty, going back to the 1887 General Allotment Act; the national fight to recover lost lands is being led by the Twin Cities-based Indian Tenure Land Foundation."--Publisher's webpage.
9) Hostiles
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
An Army captain reluctantly agrees to accompany an aging Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands.
10) Little Big Man
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
One hundred year-old white man recounts how he was raised by Native Americans, became a gunslinger, and survived the battle at Little Big Horn.
12) Smoke signals
Series
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000?]
Language
English
Description
Depicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of thier identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
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