For the Ute Indians, who have occupied parts of the present-day Four Corners area of the United States since 1000 C.E., the traditional lifestyle was that of mobile hunter-gatherers, environmentally and seasonally sensitive to their world. Simmons carefully researched and here documents how their culture was severely disrupted with the arrival of the Spanish in the late 1500s. During the following four centuries, there were further intrusions, primarily...

Now made public for the first time — an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium. For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla — a tiny village on a remote Hopi reservation in Arizona — have been guarding the secrets and prophecies of a thousand-year-old covenant that was created to ensure the well-being of the earth and its creatures. But the elders are dying, and there is no one left to pass...

At the age of twelve, an orphan named Will Cooper is given a horse, a key, and a map and is sent on a journey through the wilderness to the edge of the Cherokee Nation, the uncharted white space on the map. Will is a bound boy, obliged to run a remote Indian trading post. As he fulfills his lonesome duty, Will finds a father in Bear, a Cherokee chief, and is adopted by him and his people, developing relationships that ultimately forge Willś character....

A look at the events surrounding the incarceration of native American activist Leonard Peltier elucidates the traditional Indian concept of the sacred inviolability of the earth and presents new evidence supporting Peltier's claims of innocence, arguing for a new trial

In 1975, armed FBI agents illegally entered the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Gunfire erupted and a Native American and two FBI agents fell dead. After the largest manhunt in FBI history, three men were apprehended but only one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. This documentary film is his story.

A complex tapestry of multicultural viewpoints on the theme of homeland. This project developed out of interviews by Loeffler, started in the 1980s, of key figures (historians, environmentalists, lawyers, Native Americans, etc.) in the land usage rights movement. Contains a book and a CD.

Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men — President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross — who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story. One man we recognize:...

Follows the life work of Native American poet/activist John Trudell, chronicling his travels, spoken word and politics in a poetic and naturally stylized manner. The film combines archival, concert and interview footage with abstract imagery mirroring the coyote nature of Trudell himself.

"A necessary reckoning with America's troubled history of injustice to Indigenous people, After One Hundred Winters confronts the harsh truth that the United States was founded on the violent dispossession of Indigenous people and asks what reconciliation might mean in light of this haunted history. In this timely and urgent book, settler historian Margaret Jacobs tells the stories of the individuals and communities who are working together to heal...