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The Indigenous Studies Collection

Films from the Docuseek2 collection that cover the history, culture, and contemporary experience of indigenous people around the world. Films range from reports of initial contact between Europeans and Africans and South Americans to contemporary challenges of First Nations people to maintain their identity, spiruality and territorial claims.

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The Indigenous Studies Collection includes the following titles:

A Fierce Green Fire - imageA Fierce Green Fire

The documentary of record on the environmental movement.

Bullfrog Films | 2012 | 101 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adult
A Massacre Foretold - imageA Massacre Foretold

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1997 massacre of 45 indigenous people by paramilitary troops in Chiapas, Mexico.

Icarus Films | 2007 | 58 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
A Place Between: The Story of an Adoption - imageA Place Between: The Story of an Adoption

A dramatic story of the reconciliation between biological and adoptive families for a cross-cultural adoptee.

National Film Board of Canada | 2007 | 75 minutes
AWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock - imageAWAKE, A Dream from Standing Rock

Documents the story of Native-led defiance of construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment and the future of our planet. The film asks: 'Are you ready to join the fight?'

Bullfrog Films | 2017 | 89 minutes | 10 - 12, College, Adults
Aboriginal Architecture - imageAboriginal Architecture

New structures in seven North American Native communities that reinterpret traditional forms for contemporary purposes.

Bullfrog Films | 2006 | 93 minutes | 7-12, College, Adult
Ama - imageAma

The untold story of the involuntary sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s.

Bullfrog Films | 2019 | 74 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
American Outrage - imageAmerican Outrage

Two elderly Western Shoshone sisters, the Danns, put up a heroic fight for their land rights and human rights.

Bullfrog Films | 2008 | 56 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Apache 8 - imageApache 8

A story of resilience, strength, and tradition, APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-female group of firefighters, who protect their reservation from fire and respond to wildfires around the station.

Women Make Movies | 2011 | 57 minutes
Aware - imageAware

Six brilliant researchers approach the mysteries of consciousness from radically different perspectives, from within and without.

Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 104 minutes
Beneath The Surface - imageBeneath The Surface

A tip-off in 2014 enabled a group of journalists to gain access to silenced stories of abuse from indigenous Sámi women, men and children. Generations of negligence and suffering are investigated through recovered evidence and unseen archival footage.

Autlook | 2022 | 90 minutes | College, Adults

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