LibGuides: Native American History: Media

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Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology (49:00) The remains of more than 10,000 Native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. Is the analysis of the bones valid scientific research, or is it a desecration of Native American culture?
Dancing in Moccasins: Keeping Native American Traditions Alive (49:00) This program examines the needs and problems of today’s Native Americans, both those who live on the reservation and those who have chosen the mainstream.
Fight No More Forever: The West, a Film by Stephen Ives (84:00) This film explores the final subjugation of defiant Indian tribes and other holdouts to federal authority in the West.
Series: Native American Artists This classic six-part series, which aired on PBS during the nation’s bicentennial, examines the careers of some of the most talented Native American artists of the Southwest as they were unfolding at that time.
Series: Native American Novelists In 1969, N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa Indian writer, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel, House Made of Dawn. This catalyzed the flowering of Native American literature in the United States. In this series of intimate portraits of four outstanding Native American novelists, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie M. Silko, and Gerald Vizenor seek to define themselves and their culture and to explain both the past and the present of their people.
Series: Native America Native America challenges everything we thought we knew about the Americas before and since contact with Europe. It travels through 15,000-years to showcase massive cities, unique systems of science, art, and writing, and 100 million people connected by social networks and spiritual beliefs spanning two continents. The series reveals some of the most advanced cultures in human history and the Native American people who created it and whose legacy continues, unbroken, to this day.