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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:

DamNation - imageDamNation

Explores the sea change in national attitude from pride in big dams as engineering wonders to the call for dam removal as awareness grows that our own future is bound to the health of our rivers.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 87 minutes | 7 - 12, College, Adults
Daughter of a Lost Bird - imageDaughter of a Lost Bird

Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, a Native woman adopted into a white family, reconnects with her Native identity and begins to view herself as a living legacy of U.S. assimilationist policy.

Women Make Movies | 2021 | 66 minutes | College, Adults
Donna's Story - imageDonna's Story

An intimate portrait of a fiercely determined survivor -- Donna, a Cree woman who left behind a bleak existence on the streets.

National Film Board of Canada | 2001 | 51 minutes
Drowned Out - imageDrowned Out

An Indian family chooses to stay at home and drown rather than make way for the Narmada Dam.

Bullfrog Films | 2003 | 75 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Ella's Riot - Rahčan - imageElla's Riot - Rahčan

A young Sami singer and activist conquering screens and stages.

First Hand Films | 2023 | 72 minutes | College, Adults
Facing The Storm - imageFacing The Storm

An epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the bison, an iconic symbol of wild America.

Bullfrog Films | 2010 | 78 minutes | 10-12, College, Adult
Fevers - imageFevers

Dr. Maman moves freely between Western medicine and ancestral magical recipes. FEVERS is an unassuming film whose strength is the depth with which it observes this remarkable healer in action.

Icarus Films | 2009 | 43 minutes
Fight - imageFight

If you had to summarize Randy Baleski's philosophy, you could probably do it in three words: Boxing saves kids.

National Film Board of Canada | 2012 | 45 minutes
Fire and Ice - imageFire and Ice

From the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia to the Andes of Peru, indigenous highland communities battle threats to their forests, farms, and faith.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 57 minutes | 9-12, College, Adults
Fire in the Andes - imageFire in the Andes

Tells the story of the conflict in Peru which left over 10,000 dead or 'disappeared.' through an investigation into the killings of eight journalists.

Icarus Films | 1985 | 35 minutes | 9-12, College, Adult

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