Indigenous Perspectives

If you wanted to change an ancient culture in a generation, how would you do it? You would change the way it educates its children. The U.S. Government knew this in the 19th century when it forced Native American children into government boarding schools. Today, volunteers build schools in traditional societies around the world, convinced [...]

Carol Black, Neal Marlens, Jim Hurst | 2010 | 65 min. | USA

Cory Mann is a quirky Tlingit businessman hustling to make a dollar in Juneau Alaska. He gets hungry for smoked salmon, nostalgic for his childhood, and decides to spend a summer smoking fish at his family’s traditional fish camp. By turns tragic, bizarre, or just plain ridiculous, Smokin’ Fish, tells the story of one man’s [...]

Luke Griswold-Tergis, Cory Mann, Maureen Gosling, Jed Riffe | 2011 | 80 min. | USA

SUMMER PASTURE is a feature-length documentary that chronicles one summer with a young family amidst a period of great uncertainty. Locho, his wife Yama, and their infant daughter, nicknamed Jiatomah (‘pale chubby girl’), spend the summer months in eastern Tibet’s Zachukha grasslands, an area known as Wu-Zui or ’5-Most,’ – the highest, coldest, poorest, largest, [...]

Lynn True, Nelson Walker | 2010 | 86 min. | USA, Tibet

  WE STILL LIVE HERE (Âs Nutayuneân) tells a remarkable story of cultural revival by the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts. Their ancestors ensured the survival of the first English settlers in America, and lived to regret it. Now they are bringing their language home again. The story begins in 1994 when Jessie Little Doe, an [...]

Anne Makepeace | 2010 | 56 min. | USA