WWW Virtual Library - American Indians

Aboriginal Film and Video Arts Alliance 

American Indian Film Institute 

Alaska Native Heritage Center Annual Film Festival 

All Roads Film Project 

American Indian Film Festival 

Denver Indigenous Film & Arts Festival 

Dreamspeakers Film Festival 

First Nations Film and Video Festival 

imagineNATIVE Film + MediaArts Festival 

Native American Film and Video Festival 

Native American Film Festival and Cultural Weekend 

Santa Fe Film Festival 

Sundance Film Festival 

American Indians in Silent Film 

American Indians on Film & Video:  Documentaries in the Library of Congress

First Nations Films  from the National Film Board of Canada

Indigenous Peoples of North & Central America Videotapes  and

Native Americans in the Movies: A Bibliography of Materials in the UC Berkeley Library
in the Media Resources Center, University of California, Berkeley

North American Indians: Films & Videos  Univ. AZ Library

Videos available from SAIIC 

Disney's 'Politically Correct' Pocahontas , Cineaste v21, n4 (Fall, 1995):36.

Edward Curtis Meets the Kwakwaka’wakw 

From Nanook to Oumigmag  [Can't connect 9/22/12]

Imaginary Indians , Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Univ. WA

Movies, Race and Ethnic Representation: Native Americans 

Native Americans: The Surprising Silents , Cineaste v21, n3 (Summer, 1995):34.

Race and Representation in American Cinema , Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

Victor Masayesva, Jr.  , video artist and photographer

Allies: Media/Art  

Big Productions Comanche & Lakota 

Cedar Root Television and Film Producitons Haida 

Chiapas Media Project  

DeWayne Austin Choctaw 

Director General Film Nlaka'pamux  

Full Circle Video  , Native American Art, Culture and Music

High Star Productions  

Igloolik Video  

Jackson 2Bears Mohawk 

Mimbres Fever Productions  

Motion Visual   

Native American produced films  

See also: Anthropology films

Nutaaq Média, Inc.  

Pine Needle Blankets Productions  

Red Buffalo Images Kiowa-Muscogee Creek 

Rich-Heape Films  

Sheephead Films Navajo 

Shenandoah Film Productions  

Turtle Island Productions Métis-Ojibway 

Urban Rez Productions Maliseet / Haida 

Various Indian Peoples Publishing, Co.  

Violet Hill Productions  

Vision Makers Video  , a service of Native American Public Telecommunications

Alcatraz is not an Island 

Bringing The Circle Together: A Native American Film Series 

Broken Rainbow , on the forced relocation of Navajos

Chiefs , on the Wyoming Indian High School's championship basketball team

Circle of Stories 

Circles: It's about Justice. It's about Healing 

Documentary Educational Resources  produces the following films and many others:

Imagining Indians, a film by Victor Masayesva.

Faces of Change, a revolutionary series of 26 - 16mm films and videos, 6 on Bolivia.

Apu Condor (The Condor God), the sacred Peruvian "Yawar Fiesta of the Apu Condor".

Nuhoniyeh: Our Story
A Native perspective on the history and current circumstances of the Sayisi Dene, a people of the borderlands between tundra and forest in Canada.

The Chaco Legacy on Chaco Canyon

Cree Hunters of Mistassini, three families in their annual move to the north.

Indian Self-Rule: A Problem of History
The Indians of North America own less than 2% of the land first settled by their ancestors.

Our Lives in our Hands
Split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern Maine.

At the Time of Whaling, from the Alaskan Eskimo Series series.

Ethnoscope Films: 

The Tree of Life, on the Danza de los Voladores.

The Eagle's Children on the "Danza Azteca"

The Tree of Knowledge, on learning and assimilation in Mexico

Finding Our Talk: A Journey Through Aboriginal Languages 

Forgotten Warriors: The Story of Canada's Aboriginal War Veterans 

Great American Foot Race 

Healing Woods: Tribe as Community as Family 

In the Light of Reverence , Devils Tower. The Four Corners, Mount Shasta.

Lighting the 7th Fire , A film by Sandra Sunrising Osawa

Na Maka o ka 'Aina  (The Eyes of the Land)

No Turning Back: The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 

Storyteller: Michael Arvaarluk Kusugak 

Teaching Indians to Be White 

The Pequot War 

The Sand Creek Massacre 

Urban Elder 

Words and Place: Native Literature from the American Southwest 

Eight videotapes from the University of Arizona that capture the complex oral traditions of the Southwestern American Indians. Each program features an American Indian singer, storyteller or author performing from his/her repertoire.

Chip Taylor Communications 

Discovering the Sacred Land Film Project 

Gryphon Productions  culturally-sensitive, medically accurate programs to help native communities.

Indigenous Peoples Index  at Bullfrog Films

Native American Films from New Day Films  including:

In Whose Honor? Native American Mascots in Sports

Native American Relations Video Series  from Kifaru Productions

NativeVideos.com 

Wiping the War Paint Off the Lens: Native American Film and Video,

by Beverly R. Singer, Robert A. Warrior
Univ of Minnesota Pr.

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