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Lisa Meeches: Eagle Vision: Part 1

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lisa Meeches
[Liz Hover?]
Former reporter, host of the Sharing Circle, and president of her own production company discusses her experiences in the media industry. Duration: 9:46.
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Lisa Meeches: Eagle Vision: Part 2

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lisa Meeches
[Liz Hover?]
Video of interview with former reporter, host of Sharing Circle, president of Eagle Vision, and manager of the National Screen Institute's New Voices program. Duration: 10:52.
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Lisa Meeches: Eagle Vision: Part 3

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Lisa Meeches
[Liz Hover?]
Former reporter, host of Sharing Circle, and filmmaker discusses the National Screen Institute's New Voices course which is aimed exclusively at Aboriginal people aged 18-35. Duration: 7:38
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Liz Canner

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Maureen Latta
Border Crossings, vol. 23, no. 3, August 2004, pp. 125-126
Review of the video Bridges which is set against the backdrop of the Stonechild Inquiry.
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The Lone Ranger: Native Props for the Movie

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Bill Brewer
Kathy Brewer
Whispering Wind, vol. 42, no. 1, August-September 2013, pp. 20-23
Designers describe the "Comanche style" items they made for the production.
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Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, the Wiindigoo, and Star Trek: The Next Generation

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Bender
Lydia Maunz- Breese
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 2, Spring, 2018, pp. 141-161
Relates thematic content of the novel to that of series' episodes which give the novel its chapter titles; examines both works in the context of the Anishinaabe Wiindigoo stories, discussing interpretations of the concepts of lawlessness, justice and vigilantism.
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Loving the Alien: Indigenous Protest and Neo-colonial Violence in James Cameron's Avatar

Alternate Title
Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Bruce Bennett
Chapter five from Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent edited by Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Tyler. Discusses the ways in which the film Avatar dramatizes issues of Indigenous protest, political appropriation, immigration and colonization.
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Lumaajuuq: Lesson Plan

Alternate Title
[Nunavut Animation Lab]
Documents & Presentations
Guide to accompany film, Lumaajuuq. Target audience Grades three to six in the subject areas of First Nations, English, and Visual Arts.
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The Making of Who We Are, Now Showing at the NMAI Lelawi Theater

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Beverly R. Singer
American Indian Quarterly , vol. 29, no. 3/4, Special Issue: The National Museum of the American Indian, Summer - Autumn, 2005, pp. 466-477
Author describes the short film created to introduce the audience to the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) and their role in the production of it.
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Media Panel - Derek Mazur, Ron Harpelle, Kelly Saxberg

Alternate Title
ReSDA (Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic) Annual Conference ; 3rd, 2013
Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Derek Mazur
Ron Harpelle
Kelly Saxberg
Discussion about knowledge mobilization, projects for ReSDA and collaboration between film makers and academics. Duration: 28:33.
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Mediating Indianness

Alternate Title
American Indian Studies Series
E-Books
Author/Creator
Billy J. Stratton
Sonja Georgi
Cathy Covell Waegner
A. Robert Lee
Ellen Cushman … [et al.]
American Indian Studies Series
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The Medicine Project

Web Sites » Organizations
Online exhibition with twelve artists and three writers which looks at Aboriginal ideas about healing and how they influence First Nations people and artists today.
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Meet "The People of the Kattawapiskak River"

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Barb Nahwegahbow
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 8, November 2012, p. 23

Discusses a state of emergency at Attawapiskat First Nation due to a severe housing crisis and introduces a documentary by Alanis Obomasawin showcasing the trials of this community.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.31.

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Militant AIM Activist Led Wounded Knee Uprising

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Dianne Meili
Windspeaker, vol. 30, no. 9, December 2012, p. 26

Looks at the life of American Indian Movement activist and actor, Russell Mean.

Entire issue on one pdf. To access article scroll to p.34.

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Mohawk Girls

Media » Film and Video
Author/Creator
Tracey Deer
Documentary about the lives of three girls from Kahnawake Reserve and the issues they face. Duration: 62:48. Educational Resource.
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Monique Verdin's Louisiana Love: An Interview

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Kirstin L. Squint
Monique Verdin
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 1, Winter, 2018, pp. 117-133
Interview with co-producer and co-writer of My Louisiana Love, a documentary which details the effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the BP oil spills on her family and community.
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Monkey Beach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Theresa Warburton
BC Studies, no. 211, Autumn, 2021, pp. 123-124
A look at Indigenous director Loretta Todd's film adaptation of Indigenous authors Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach.
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Music Is the Medicine: Educational Resource

Alternate Title
Docs for Schools
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Suzanne Methot
Teacher's guide for the documentary which follows blues-rock guitarist and singer-songwriter Derek Miller, a Mohawk from the Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, as he releases a CD.
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Nanook of the North as Primal Drama

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Visual Anthropology , vol. 19, no. 3-4, 2006, pp. 201-222
Discusses director Robert Flaherty's methodology, which combined aspects of a documentary with a fictional storyline, and his portrayal of the Inuit in film.
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Native American Documentary: An Emerging Genre?

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven Leuthold
Film Criticism, vol. 22, no. 1, Fall, 1997, pp. 74-89
Argues that despite differing styles of Indigenous filmmaking, they share a world view that makes them distinct from mainstream productions.
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Native American Responses to the Western

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Steven M. Leuthold
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 19, no. 1, 1995, pp. 153-189
Paper focuses on responses to Westerns, explains why controlling their public image is important to Native Americans and discusses use of how they are using film and video documentaries to re-present themselves.
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Native American Stories: New Video Releases

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Christine Dupres
Journal of American Folklore, vol. 120, no. 475, Winter, 2007, pp. 89-91
Reviews: Skywalkers, The Great Law of the Iroquois, Coyote and the Spirit Run, Iroquois Women: The Three Sisters, Urban Identities, and Conversations with Roxanne Swentzell. Films were directed by Pat Ferrero and created as a series intended to be part of the Alcoa Foundation Hall of the American Indians at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh.
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[Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory]

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Erin J. Cotter
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 1, Spring, 2014, pp. 125-127
Book review of: Native Americans on Film edited by M. Elise Marubbio and Eric L. Buffalohead. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 125.
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The 'Native' Cites Back: Post-Colonial Theory and the Politics of Jim Jarmuschu's Western Dead Man

Alternate Title
Anglistentag 2006 Halle: Proceedings
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Jens Martin Gurr
Chapter in: Anglistentag 2006 Halle: Proceedings (Proceedings of the Conference of the German Association of University Teachers of English) edited by Sabine Volk-Birke and Julia Lippert. Looks at the western movie Dead Man and the American ideology.
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Native Pop: Bunky Echo-Hawk and Steven Paul Judd Subvert Star Wars

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Olena McLaughlin
Transmotion, vol. 3, no. 2, December 6, 2017, pp. 30-52
Author discusses the work of two Indigenous pop-artists and how they appropriate iconic mainstream imagery in order to subvert popular narratives and stereotypes in the Star Wars franchise and in the wider film industry.
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Navajo Filmmakers

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Sol Worth
John Adair
American Anthropologist, vol. 72, no. 1, New Series, February 1970, pp. 9-34
Analyzes films produced by selected on-reserve Navajo people for cultural and verbal grammar, narrative style and methods, the social organization of learning filmmaking, and choice of subjects and actors.
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Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Lyell Davies
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, 2013, pp. 156-159
Book review of: Navajo Talking Picture by Randolph Lewis. Review located by scrolling to page 156.
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Negotiating Publicity and Persona: The Work of Native Actors in Studio Hollywood

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Jacob Floyd
American Indian Culture and Research Journal , vol. 42, no. 3, Native Narratives of Indigenous History and Culture, 2018, pp. 119-135
Examines the content of studio publicity materials to discover traces of the labour and negotiation performed by Indigenous actors in the development and maintenance of their public personas while working in studio Hollywood. Author argues that actors were able to use their public personas to critique and influence onscreen representations of Indigenous people.
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Ngā Kai Para i te Kahikātoa: Māori Filmmaking, Forging a Path

Alternate Title
Nga Kai Para i te Kahikatoa: Maori Filmmaking, Forging a Path
Theses
Author/Creator
Angela Moewaka Barnes
Film, Television and Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D)--University of Aukland, 2011. Focuses on films by Don Selwyn (Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Wēniti - Māori Merchant of Venice), Merata Mita (Mauri) and Barry Barclay (Ngati).
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Northern Exposure

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Chris Nikkei
The Beaver, vol. 90, no. 1, February/March 2010, p. 13
Description of two movies made in the early 1900s portraying the North, Nanook of the North and Romance of the Far Fur Country.
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