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.
The Indigenous Studies Collection includes the following titles:
Aboriginal Australians and Native Hawaiians reclaim land from the government and the military, and resist the erosion of culture and environment.
Alanis Obomsawin's 52rd film tells the story of how the life of Jordan River Anderson initiated a battle for the right of First Nations children to receive the same standard of social, health and educational services as the rest of the Canadian population.
A 25-year battle in Canada's iconic Jumbo Valley pits developers of a large ski resort against conservationists, backcountry skiers and First Nations, who revere it as home of the grizzly bear spirit.
Examines the historic confrontation between the Mohawks, Québec police, and the Canadian army that propelled Native issues into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience.
The film follows Chief Sayers through a series of discussions with community members that explore the underlying social and ecological approaches of Batchewana's fisheries as well as perspectives about its history, current practices, and future directions.
The Hadza are among Africa's last hunter-gatherers. Should they follow charismatic Baallow into the modern world?
In the face of rising sea levels due to climate change, Kiribati President Anote Tong must decide the fate of his people. Should he plan for an orderly evacuation of the islands?
Meddle captures Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas‘s artistic process and philosophy as he creates a re-purposed, car-hood art for the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC
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