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• Extraordinary Native American Men

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  While our Founding Fathers, Presidents, and military leaders are remembered as heroes of American culture, it's often overlooked how indigenous people contributed to many of the major events in the nation's history. Please join us as we learn more…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Incident at Oglala

  the Leonard Peltier Story

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  Examines the 1975 incident where armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, resulting in the deaths of a Native American and two FBI agents. Explores the controversy and potential abuse of justice surrounding the case of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Indian Warriors

  the Untold Story of the Civil War

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  Discover one of the more obscure, yet fascinating aspects of the Civil War era: the contribution of thousands of Native American soldiers. With the help of respected authors Thom Hatch and Lawrence Hauptman, this program reconstructs the stories of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• N. Scott Momaday

  Words From a Bear

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  Words from a Bear gives a thorough survey of Momaday's most prolific years as a doctorate fellow at Stanford University, his achievement of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1969, and his later works that solidified his place as the founding…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Native American Culture, Heritage and Traditions

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  The story of the North American indigenous peoples is a story of loss, hardship, violence, betrayal, and misappropriation. It is also a story of community, spirituality, diversity, honor, and resilience. Long before Christopher Columbus stepped foot…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Native American Experience. Extraordinary Native American Women

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  Native American Indian women have been the foundation and spirit of their culture for centuries. Their role in the tribal communities not only assumed the more conventional matriarchal responsibilities within the tribe but also spearheaded the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Navajo Code Talkers of World War II

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  The documentary provides viewers with highly personal insights from a group of Native American war heroes regarding their service on behalf of the United States and the Navajo Nation. The secret code these marines developed, based on the unwritten…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rumble

  the Indians Who Rocked the World

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  This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sitting Bull

  Chief of the Lakota Nation

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  Sitting Bull was one of the last great leaders of Indian resistance. Follow his life from the victory at "Custer's Last Stand" to his time as an attraction in Buffalo Bill's famous Wild West Show.

• Trail of Tears

  a Native American Documentary Collection

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  A collection of four documentaries. Trail of Tears documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Another documentary, Black Indians, explores issues of racial identity between the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• True Whispers

  the Story of the Navajo Code Talkers

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  Explores from the Native point of view the complex story of the role that the Native American code talkers and the Navajo language played in secret communications during World War II. No cryptography system proved as effective during the war as did…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Warrior Tradition

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  It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Shall Remain

  America Through Native Eyes

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  "They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major…Read moreRead more of this annotation