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Navajo Talking Pictures

Navajo Talking Pictures

Navajo Talking Pictures

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother.

Why The Cowboy Sings

Why The Cowboy Sings

Why The Cowboy Sings

The cowboy's job has always been dangerous, lonely, dusty, gory and low-paying. So why do cowboys make music, and why do they need to tell their story? Why the Cowboy Sings is a…

Medicine Fiddle

Medicine Fiddle

1991 | 1h 21mins

Medicine Fiddle

1991 | 1h 21mins

Fiddlers and dancers from Native and Metis families of the northern United States and Canada carry on the musical traditions passed down from early settlers. The film weaves…

Good Life, The

Mino-bimadiziwin: The Good Life is an engaging portrait of a community on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota where the peoples' lives revolve around the annual harvest of…

Miami Indian Powwow

Miami Indian Powwow

Miami Indian Powwow

The powwow has become one of the most recognizable forms of Native American celebration today, and occurs in virtually every state in the U.S. But despite the many similarities…

César‘s Bark Canoe

César‘s Bark Canoe

César‘s Bark Canoe

Using only birchbark, cedar splints, spruce roots and gum, César Newashish, a 67 year old Attikamek of the Manawan Reserve demonstrates how to build a canoe the "old" way.

Onondaga

An Onondaga father and son make lacrosse sticks in the traditional way.

Fiddlers of James Bay

Fiddlers of James Bay

Fiddlers of James Bay

This National Film Board of Canada documentary traces the history of the fiddle’s arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from Orkney Island.

Keith Bear

Musician Keith Bear (whose name in the Mandan language is O'Mashi! Ryu Ta or Northern Lights in the English translation) considers himself a survivor of the foster system. His…

Augusta

This short documentary is the portrait of an 88-year-old woman who lives alone in a log cabin without running water or electricity. Augusta is a non-status Shuswap Indian living…

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