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1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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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 Patton, Mildred Bailey, Jesse Ed Davis, Robbie Robertson, and Randy Castillo, RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World shows how these pioneering Native American musicians helped shape the soundtracks...
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1 videodisc (65 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Follows the terrifying and horrific abuses instilled upon the indigenous people of North America, and details the genocidal practices of the US government and its continuing affects on present day Indian country"--Container.
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Narrated by James Earl Jones and with music by The Neville Brothers this video explores the issue of racial identity among Native and African Americans. This in-depth documentary examines the coalescence of these two groups in American history.
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4 videodiscs (14 hr., 23 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This documentary collection examines Native North American culture, past and present, and its attempt to halt assimilation and retain native cultural traditions. Through historical and contemporary photographs, paintings, artwork, archive footage, reenactments, and interviews, the culture and history of America's aboriginal people is showcased across 32 features. Witness the struggles and hardships, the practices and traditions, the art and beauty...
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1 videodisc (70 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Heartbreaking tale of the forced relocation of 12,000 Navajos from their ancestral homeland in Arizona that began in the 1970's and continues to this day. Witness as they take their protest to Congress and turn tragedy into acts of heroic resistance.
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1 videodisc (approximately 56 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Descendants of legendary Native American leader Geronimo tell the story of a half-century of war, displacement, confinement, and finally resistance that ended with the decimation of the Chiricahua Apaches and the loss of their traditional homeland in the Southwest. Geronimo is revealed as a shrewd leader, formidable fighter, and poetic shaman--dedicated to a crusade to keep his ancestral land, repeatedly defying and eluding federal authorities. When...
8) Allan Houser
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Allan Houser, creator of stone, wood and bronze homages to the American Indian, discusses his life and work.
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3 videodiscs (222 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"From the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century to the English colonists of the 18th, the settling of America often came at the cost of Native American blood. But the 350-year conflict between European settlers and Indian natives reached its apex with the territorial expansions of the 19th century, when the notion of Manifest Destiny justified a series of battles and massacres that virtually wiped out the indigenous population. This five-part...
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2 videodiscs (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
11) Only the valiant
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A Cavalry officer volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
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1 videodisc (30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Profiles artists Grace Medicine Flower and her brother Joseph Lonewolf, potters from Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico, who have revived and extended the traditional forms and techniques of their pre-Columbian ancestors in their work.
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1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Imagine you are a child, taken from your home, your family, taken from everything you know. In 1869, the U.S. government enacted a policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society. By the late 1960's, more than 100,000 had been forced to attend Indian Boarding School"--Container.
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1 videodisc (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Story of a Civil War hero (Costner) who travels west where he is assigned to an abandoned fort. His nearest neighbors are members of a Sioux tribe, and they gradually become friends. He marries a tribe woman (McDonnell) and ultimately must make a decision about the tribe and their life when he realizes what their fate will be at the hands of the white man.
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1 videodisc (approximately 92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living in America. It wasn't exactly a 'New World, ' but an old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals, and causeways. But after Columbus set foot in the Americas, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors, and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals, and disease. Here is an exploration into...
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills -- on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...
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1 videodisc (approximately 117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst, and specialist in Native American culture....
18) Skins
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1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Rudy Yellow Lodge is both a resident and a police officer of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dealing with the fallout and emotional burdens of reservation life in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., as alcoholism and poverty continually threaten the community, his family, and his own state of mind, Rudy finds himself taking the law into his own hands, with potentially tragic consequences.
19) Dreamkeeper
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1 videodisc (174 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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An elderly Lakota storyteller asks his grandson to drive him from his home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to a powwow in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Along the way, he regales the troubled teenager with Native American folklore drawn from many different tribes.
20) 100 rifles
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Yaqui Joe, an Indian, robs a bank to buy guns for his people who are being oppressed by a cruel military government. When he flees to Mexico, he's pursued by an American lawman who has sworn to bring him back. Both become allies and, with the help of Sarita, take up the cause of the Indians to help them live in freedom and dignity.
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