Vision Maker Media
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Pub. Date
2016
Description
The Eastern Shoshone and the Northern Arapaho Tribe, which share the wind river Reservation, learn that their ancestral objects-beautiful drums, sacred pipes, weapons, and ceremonial attire- are now owned by a nearby Episcopalian diocese and a museum in Chicago....A poetic, haunting and impressionic portrait of a place often portrayed negatively in the media.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Follows Navajo students in a lively collaboration with mathematicians. The math circles approach emphasizes student-centered learning by putting children in charge of exploring mathematics to their own joy and satisfaction. The documentary reveals the challenges in education for the Navajo Nation. Applications of math in Native culture provide tools for increasing math literacy, highlighting the special connections between Navajo culture, natural...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
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 member of the 'Native American Renaissance' in art and literature, influencing a generation of Native American artists, scholars, and political activists.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Like millions of indigenous people, many Native American tribes do not control their own material history and culture. For the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes living on the isolated Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming, new contact with lost artifacts risks opening old wounds but also offers the possibility for healing. What Was Ours is the story of how a young journalist and a teenage powwow princess, both of the Arapaho tribe, traveled...