"Mitákuye Oyás’iŋ. That means all my relatives. That bird over there. The fish in the water. We're all related. Everything in the universe is related." —Lakota teacher (2019)
LN3 FILM from Nine Muses
A 38-minute frontline documentary on the effort to stop fossil fuel expansion and encourage real energy security.
Predatory industry hijacked the US regulatory system in 2019, placing ancient food systems and a fifth of the world’s freshwater in imminent danger. LN3 features indigenous firebrands Winona Laduke, Tara Houska, and poet-hip hop artist ThomasX, as they lead an alliance to take on Big Oil and their enablers at the institutional level, and on the frontlines. This is the battle for Earth.
Directed by Suez Taylor (USA)
Standing Rock and the Battle Beyond Al Jazeera English - Fault Lines 27 December 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-3jdXa46U
For months, Native Americans have been protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a multibillion-dollar construction project that tribal leaders say is threatening sacred sites as well as the tribe's source of drinking water.
Fighting Addiction on Pine Ridge Reservation (2017) The Guardian
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/29/pine-ridge-indian-reservation-south-dakota
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoKF8H1l7NU
Whiteclay, Nebraska is a tiny unincorporated town that sits on the border with South Dakota. Until its closure by state officials, its four liquor stores sold more than 4m cans of beer a year, almost entirely to members of Lakota Sioux tribe on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation, where the sale of alcohol is banned. The Guardian spent time on the reservation to understand the impact of alcohol on its residents – and the activists and Lakota tribe members determined to keep the town closed
Cursed by Coal: Mining the Navajo Nation (2015) VICE News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4uGCj6knVw
There's a resource curse on the Navajo Nation. The 27,000-square-mile reservation straddling parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah has an extremely high abundance of many energy resources — particularly coal. That coal is what's burned to provide much of the Southwest with electricity, and it creates jobs for the Navajo. But the mining and burning have also caused environmental degradation, serious health issues, and displacement.
The Navajo Water Lady (2015) CBS Sunday Morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk8Rm9EsET4
In this corner of the Navajo Nation, just 100 miles west of Albuquerque, N.M., an estimated 40 percent of residents don't have access to running water. Their savior is Darlene Arviso, born and raised on the Reservation, who drives her precious cargo - a tanker truck filled with water - to make monthly deliveries to 250 families. Lee Cowan reports.
Why the Sioux Are Refusing $1.3 Billion (2011) PBS News Hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObabZdcEXh4
Members of the Great Sioux Nation could pocket a large sum set aside by the government for taking the resource-rich Black Hills away from the tribes in 1877. But leaders say the sacred land was never, and still isn't, for sale.
Overview of Indian Affairs (1989) Senate Committee on the Bureau of Indian Affairs 30 Jan - 5 Feb 1989 C-SPAN
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVANRroxuOo
- https://www.c-span.org/video/?5987-1/overview-indian-affairs
Special Committee on Investigations held hearings to examine various matters relating to Indian affairs, focusing on problems arising from Federal Government representation of Indian interests, and alleged fraud and corruption in regulating contracting on Indian reservations.
2017 · Documentary Series · KCET · 5 episodes
"Tending the Wild" shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia, in the process developing a deep understanding of plant and animal life. This series examines how humans are necessary to live in balance with nature and how traditional practices can inspire a new generation of Californians to tend their environment.
- Cultural Burning - How Native American Peoples Use Fire to Rejuvenate the Land
- Keeping the River - How the Klamath River's Native Peoples Maintain Their Relationship With Salmon
- Weaving Community - How Native Peoples are Rediscovering Their Basketry Traditions
- Decolonizing the Diet - How Native Peoples are Reclaiming Traditional Foods
- Gathering Medicine - How Native Medicinal Practices Are Thriving Today
30 April 2012 · YouTube User Juli Ponte · 4m 15s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTEkDtJmx_Q
13 September 2010 · YouTube User 79SiouxWarrior19 · 5m 10s
From The homeland.. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Lakota National Anthem (Flag Song) and Veterans' Song Artist: Porcupine Singers Album: Traditional Lakota Songs
2019 · CBC Docs · 13m
This is Indian Relay, North America's original extreme sport
Welcome to the dangerous, high-stakes world of Indian Relay — North America’s original extreme sport, where jockeys ride horses bareback and jump from one horse to another in the middle of the race.
Winner of the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing at Sundance 2019: Alexandra Lazarowich
Take an intimate verité visit to a fascinating and little-known world: the dangerous and high-stakes game of Indian Relay.
In Blackfoot country, they call Indian Relay “North America’s original extreme sport.” Jockeys bareback gallop their horses around a track, jumping off one and on to another in a chaotic melee of horses and handlers at “the exchange”. Accidents happen. Simply finishing a race demands masterful skill and courage.
Siksika horseman Allison RedCrow dreams of bringing a team to the “greatest outdoor show on Earth” – the Calgary Stampede – so he and his people can show the world their unparalleled skill on horseback.
Our cameras follow Allison and his new jockey, Cody BigTobacco, over the course of a year as they assemble a team of horses, train them for the relay race and finally make their debut at the Calgary Stampede. Their team, Old Sun, will face the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy, many of them veteran competitors from Montana. Fast Horse puts the audience on the back of a galloping horse, an exhilarating POV experience that captures the thrill and risk of this white-knuckle sport.
But our cameras also capture the touching bond Cody and Allison have with their horses. Witness, with intimate proximity, the committed effort these majestic animals demand from their riders and handlers. We see the horses accept their role and learn the complex movements of the race.
And through this process, we come to understand and respect the skills of horsemanship, which have been passed down for generations and remain intact.
With a heart-pumping climax, experience the final race at the Calgary Stampede from Cody’s own perspective. And just as promised, learn just how unpredictable and dangerous the Indian Relay can be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gssNjmEz5M
1 February 2018 · VICE Life · 11m
For the Mescalero Apache Tribe, girls are not recognized as women until they have undergone the Sunrise Ceremony- an ancient, coming-of-age ceremony that lasts for four days. Last May, VICE got rare access to the ceremony for Julene Geronimo - the great, great grand-daughter of the renowned Apache leader, Geronimo. We followed Julene through each day of her arduous rite-of-passage to better understand what womanhood means for the Apache tribe, and how these ceremonies play a significant role in preserving a way of life that almost became extinct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1Cx_9YDQEc
28 August 2018 · Canterbury Park · 22m
Indian Horse Consolation Race
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t-4DZwhPqQ
2017 · Emerald Downs · 45m
Indian Relay Racing: 2016 Muckleshoot Gold Cup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSa1kCXJblE
3 April 2017 · National Geographic Short Film Showcase · 15m
The bison—sometimes referred to as a buffalo—is a living symbol of the American West. Despite once roaming the plains in numbers greater than 30 million, this iconic animal has recently come dangerously close to extinction. By 1900, extensive hunting and fur trading had reduced their population to less than one thousand. Although much progress has been made over the past century, conservationists are still working diligently to bring back the magnificent beast of the plains.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85_nJwYqE_c
29 November 2016 · Teen Vogue · 3m
Seven Native American girls debunk the common misconceptions about their culture.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHdW_LVfn28
2 January 2015 · BBC News · 6m
Alcoholism, unemployment and suicide are problems associated with Native American reservations in the US. But a new generation of young activists are dedicating themselves to a brighter future. Benjamin Zand from the BBC's Pop-Up team is on a reservation in South Dakota -- in the heart of America's midwest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM8WZ0ztMuc
26 Feb 2014 · National Geographic · 2m
Horses changed life on the Great Plains forever, shaping everything from hunting methods to social status. For Native Americans today, horses endure as an emblem of tradition and a source of pride, pageantry, and healing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKi-8K_7xwo
10 July 2012 · Our America with Lisa Ling · 47m
Lisa Ling casts light on Native Americans, the problems they face, and modern and traditional solutions to help them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kwoFJ-QEmo
9 August 2010 · National Geographic · 3m
Native Americans at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota gather for the Oglala Lakota Nation Pow Wow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on9bnvuOLtE
24 October 2019 · Documentary/Music · 14m
What Does Electric Pow Wow Sound Like?
Canadian DJ collective A Tribe Called Red combine Native American drum circle sounds with electronic music to create Electric Pow wow. Nahre Sol travels to Toronto to meet A Tribe Called Red to learn how they blend native sounds and electronic music. LA Buckner meets with Iron Boy drum circle in Minnesota to watch a live performance and learn about their sound.
https://www.pbs.org/video/how-a-tribe-called-red-blends-pow-wow-with-electronic-music-zqymrm/
See also:
- A Tribe Called Red
- Iron Boy Drum Circle
2019 · Short Documentary · 15m
Life Lakota captures the state of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota today. The Lakota culture is fading and their voices must be heard. Local leaders are taking action to educate the youth while organizations like the Sioux YMCA are helping kids stay above the influence of many of the extreme adversities that the reservation presents them. Lakota people are humble, proud and full of faith, we are honored to help tell their story.
Notes:
- About 75% of the tribe is living in poverty
- County has highest percent of impoverished children in the U.S.
- There are 3-7 suicide attempts each week
- Federal recognition of a tribe requires three criteria be met:
- a language (prohibited from 1890-1990)
- a culture (religious practices prohibited from 1890-1978)
- a land base
- Orville Lookinghorse, keeper of the sacred calf pipe holds prophecy of the seventh generation, the current one, being the last hope of the Lakota people
- Tom Reeves (Enemies Sing of Him) Sung Watogala wild horses Youth Program. "Rodeo used to be a right of passage on the reservations. We're trying to bring it back."
- "That bird over there. The fish in the water. We're all related. Everything in the universe is related." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitakuye_Oyasin spoken by Lakota teacher (possible Orville Red Bear)
- Irona Howe, "You can focus on that bad things here, but the youth here are good. Don't over analyze the alcoholism. We're not hopeless. We're not helpless. We have those sprits here, and they are strong, but they are everywhere. Don't come here looking for the broken down houses. We are not pitiful. We are strong people, very strong, and we'll rise."
- The Sioux YMCA takes in 2,500 kids each year. Their work saves lives.
Take kindly the council of the earth gracefully surrounding the thing of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortunes but do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born in fatigue and loneliness beyond the wholesome discipline. Be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. And whether or not it's clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Be at peace with god, whatever you conceive him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life. Keep peace with your soul. With all the sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful, and strive to be happy. —Max Ehrmann, 1920s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbSRUtuWh7s
2017 · Short Film · John Trudell on YouTube · 10m
John Trudell was a poet, recording artist, actor and speaker whose international following reflects the universal language of his words, work and message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foQKPMGA1Ws
2018 · Documentary/History · PBS · 4 episodes
Explore the world created by America’s First Peoples. The four part series reaches back 15,000 years to reveal massive cities aligned to the stars, unique systems of science and spirituality, and 100 million people connected by social networks spanning two continents.
2017 · Short Film Documentary · 15m
Genevieve Iron Lightning is a young Lakota dancer on the Cheyenne River Reservation, one of the poorest communities in the US. Unemployment, addiction, alcoholism, and suicide are all challenges for Lakota on the reservation.
For nearly a hundred years, it was illegal to practice Lakota customs. Now, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is working with young people like Genevieve to create a stronger economic and cultural future—and they’re using their Lakota heritage to get there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie4m9LAVDGw
For a hundred years, it was virtually illegal to be Lakota. The Native American tribe, known for its chiefs Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud, was legally dispossessed of its religion, its spiritual practices, and much of its language, starting in the late 19th century. All Native American tribes were. Until 1978 and the passage of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, generations of Lakota were raised without access to their culture.Now, the Cheyenne River Youth Project is working with a determined generation of young Lakota to create a stronger economic and cultural future—and they’re using their Lakota heritage to get there.
Make a donation using the donation form below to the Cheyenne River Youth Project to support their internship program and other initiatives.
https://lakotayouth.org/lakota-culture/lakota-in-america/
2017 · YouTube user Raven Redbone · 4m 37s
Song by John Trudell and Robbie Robertson
"When we leave as humans we go back to being. Being human being that really means something. But we live in a reality now in a time, where. I would say to anyone ya know, protect your spirit. Protect your spirit, because. Because you're in the place where spirits get eaten." -John Trudell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7bFiCT4jKg
3 September 2016 · Democracy Now! · 8m
Dakota Access Pipeline Company Attacks Native American Protesters with Dogs & Pepper Spray
On September 3, the Dakota Access pipeline company attacked Native Americans with dogs and pepper spray as they protested against the $3.8 billion pipeline's construction. If completed, the pipeline would carry about 500,000 barrels of crude per day from North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield to Illinois. The project has faced months of resistance from the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and members of nearly 100 more tribes from across the U.S. and Canada.
Later, Amy Goodman was charged with trespassing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQnlkFfgQZI
21 November 2016 · The Language & Life Project · 56m 8s
This Emmy Award-winning documentary chronicles the efforts of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to preserve and revitalize the endangered Cherokee language. A film by Danica Cullinan and Neal Hutcheson. Executive Producer Walt Wolfram. Associate Producers Hartwell Francis and Tom Belt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9y8fDOLsO4
2016 · The Pines · 5m 48s
We wish to honor the spirit and legacy of John Trudell for future generations to come. The Pines would like to thank Faye Brown, Missy Whiteman, and all of John's family & loved ones.
"Time Dreams" was born from the collaboration between John Trudell & The Pines, words & music, as the last track from the 2016 record "Above The Prairie".
The “Time Dreams” video is a collaboration between The Pines and writer, director and producer Missy Whiteman of Independent Indigenous Film and Media. Whiteman, of the Northern Arapaho and Kickapoo Nations, is a director and digital media consultant who’s currently working on a sci-fi/docu-narritive short film titled The Coyote Way: Going Back Home. Footage from this project appears in the video, along with clips from the incendiary 2005 documentary Trudell, produced and directed by Heather Rae. Jonathan Thunder contributes animation to the video, which also features a special appearance by Missy’s son Louis Whiteman representing the younger generation’s connection to Trudell’s message. Louis signs the words “Friend, Together and Peace in Plains American Indian Sign Language, a rare and ancient Indigenous form of communication.
Whiteman says, “‘Time Dreams’ honors the life and legacy of John Trudell in a way that speaks to the hearts of all people.”
2016 · A Tribe Called Red featuring John Trudell & Northern Voice · 2m 44s
A Tribe Called Red is a Canadian electronic music group, who blend instrumental hip hop, reggae, moombahton and dubstep-influenced dance music with elements of First Nations music, particularly vocal chanting and drumming.
Recently in September of 2016, ATCR released their third album, "We Are The Halluci Nation" which scored a 8.1 review from Pitchfork and was named Top Canadian Album of 2016 via CBC. A Tribe Called Red continues to push the boundaries of with their modern spin on traditional music.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQYo7hQsKKkHi4f0X-gB1yg
27 December 2016 · Al Jazeera English · 29m 31s
For months, Native Americans have been protesting against the Dakota Access oil pipeline, a multibillion-dollar construction project that tribal leaders say is threatening sacred sites as well as the tribe's source of drinking water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX-3jdXa46U
23 September 2016 · The Redford Center · 2m 26s
MUST WATCH: spoken words by the late, great poet-activist #JohnTrudell. The second video in a series from filmmaker Cody Lucich who just returned from the #DAPL Dakota Standoff and shared this evolving footage with us. Help spread the word and get involved.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTxbIJixy84
16 September 2016 · PBS NewsHour · 8m 58s
Protestors of the North Dakota pipeline celebrated after the Department of Justice temporarily halted the project in federal jurisdictions last Friday. But while some equipment sits idle, construction in other areas continues. William Brangham visits the Standing Rock Reservation, where more than 100 Native American tribes have gathered, to recap a week of protests.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-EQ7BuhQq4
22 October 2015 · RestoreHemp · 5m 4s
Iconic freedom fighter John Trudell speaks from the heart about focus and clarity, respecting individual intelligence and the importance of learning to love yourself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfGrGcMphb0
28 December 2015 · YouTube · 19m 21s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHoDGOsZCGw
2015 · National Geographic · 4m 9s
Filmmaker Keeley Gould captures contemporary Native American culture at the 31st annual Gathering of Nations in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Over 700 tribes attend this three-day cultural heritage celebration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j1Vt1impIE
2015 · Rebecca Centeno · 12m
Earth Speaks is a short documentary about the Earth as Mother and the impacts of oil and gas drilling on Native American tribal lands in the United States, particularly the Blackfeet Reservation in North Central Montana. Outside entities promise economic wealth and prosperity to territories whose unemployment rate hovers at 70%. Exploitation of people, land, and resources is not new to the Native American. How does seeing the Earth with a 'spiritual eye' affect the oil and gas industry of Native Lands? Is there a connection between those views and others that are more pragmatic, and what alternative is there for a world dependent on fossil fuels?
2013 · Vision Maker Media · 58m
The Repercussions of the Native American Urban Relocation Program
URBAN REZ explores the controversial legacy and modern-day repercussions of the Urban Relocation Program (1952-1973), the greatest voluntary upheaval of Native Americans during the 20th century. During the documentary, dozens of American Indians representing tribal groups from across the West recall their first-hand experiences with relocation, including the early hardships, struggles with isolation and racism. Interviewees also speak about the challenges of maintaining one's own tribal traditions -- from language to hunting -- while assimilating into the larger society. Actor, musician and Oglala Lakota member Moses Brings Plenty narrates this insightful film about this seldom-told chapter in American history.
https://sfpl.kanopy.com/video/urban-rez
2013 · TED Talk by Aaron Huey ·
Aaron Huey's effort to photograph poverty in America led him to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where the struggle of the native Lakota people -- appalling, and largely ignored -- compelled him to refocus. Five years of work later, his haunting photos intertwine with a shocking history lesson in this bold, courageous talk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS6ARB2CgLI
6 September 2013 · YouTube user KNACKAtv · 1h 2m
Poetry + Talk, Hemp As Earth Medicine. Friday September 6, 2013 at KNACKA in Portland, Oregon.
Educating and entertaining with straight talk and spoken word, John Trudell, Native American activist, musician, actor, poet and philosopher, made a very special appearance on September 6th, 2013 at KNACKA Handcrafted Hemp Gear in Portland, OR.
Trudell is the co-founder of Hempstead Project Heart with Willie Nelson, a project of Earth Island Institute. Hempstead Project Heart is dedicated to raising awareness about the environmental, social, and economic benefits of legalizing industrial hemp in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDPC5wWMp2Y
2011 · PBS NewsHour · 7m 28s
Members of the Great Sioux Nation could pocket a large sum set aside by the government for taking the resource-rich Black Hills away from the tribes in 1877. But leaders say the sacred land was never, and still isn't, for sale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObabZdcEXh4
2011 · YouTube user mendingnews · 5m 34s
Mending News checks in with John Trudell who shares on the multi-faceted solutions hemp can bring forth to climate change and the economy. Trudell also breaks down the United State's relationship with hemp and speaks on why it was outlawed. Produced by Ayse Gursoz and Virginia Barker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huAQrkAg95o
12 September 2010 · YouTube user Jim Lockhart · 57m
An Interview with John Trudell on the Portland Oregon Public Access program, "A Growing Concern." Promoting Crazier Than Hell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yuUQzN-G2w
2009 · Jim Lockhart · 5m 15s
On a Portland Oregon Public Access program, Native American Spoken Word Artist John Trudell discusses the circumstances and aftermath of a 1975 fire fight on the Pine Ridge Reservation which took the lives of two FBI agents.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0uMJkCGRUw
2008 · YouTube user Phil Kimball · 27m 46s
John Trudell speaks at John Ascuaga's Nugget in Sparks, Nevada in 2008.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHBE4rf3e2Y
20 December 2008 · Lakota Peoples Law Project · 8m 39s
On December 20, 2008, immediately following Barack Obama's election, Russell Means gave this interview in Rapid City, SD. In this film Russell is at his best - intelligent, aggressive, and unwilling to compromise principle. He summarizes the current struggle of the Lakota People, and he challenges Americans to "prove him wrong"--to exceed Russell's expectation that the United State won't put a stop to the injustices against his community.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWZsQ-ovkCY
2003 · Roja Productions · 1h
https://www.pbs.org/mattersofrace/prog3.shtml
The third program is a contemporary look at two communities often overlooked in the race dialogue: American Indians and Native Hawaiians. On the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the program features the voices of three generations of Lakota families as they consider their past, their future and the process of merging multiple world views, ways of life, and ideas of America. Through the stories of these families the film considers the historical construction of Indian "otherness" and its influence on the ways a new generation of Lakota people will address issues of unemployment, alcohol, domestic abuse, and apathy ravaging their community. Meanwhile, across the Pacific Ocean, beginning in the late 1990s, lawsuit after lawsuit challenged the rights of Native Hawaiians to run schools and housing programs that provided only for their beleaguered community. Having been accused of reverse-racism, how do they see themselves in relation to the rest of the nation? And what are their connections to other Native communities? These are the questions explored in this film, which is directed by Sindi Gordon.
"If you don’t get enough people with enough what they consider blood quantum on a reservation, it’s no longer a reservation. It’s no longer a nation. That’s what the United States government thinks. You gotta be one half and over. So now they want to enforce that. But if you look at people here, the children, a lot of ‘em ain’t one half. In their hearts they’re full blood, but blood wise, they’re not half. So that’s one way of getting rid of the Indian. We’re a thorn in their side. This is what they want. They want this land." —Aaron Running Hawk
- https://www.pbs.org/mattersofrace/prog3.shtml
- https://www.pbs.org/mattersofrace/essays/essay3_survival.html
2001 · YouTube user Isten Ostora · 48m
John Trudell - Mining of Human Spirit (audio) - 2001
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_caibo8JYmw
2001 · YouTube user John Lockhart · 1h 33m
John Trudell speaking in Portland in 2001, with special guest, Native American flute, Isaac Trimble.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzttdrziPnc
1996 · The West Film Project · Eight-Part Series
THE WEST is an eight-part documentary series which premiered on PBS stations in September 1996. This multimedia guided tour proceeds chapter-by-chapter through each episode in the series, offering selected documentary materials, archival images and commentary, as well as links to background information and other resources of the web site.
A Journey through the Eight-Part Documentary Series
https://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/
The West begins as the whole world to the people who live there. It becomes a New World when Europeans arrive, a world shaken by incompatible visions. And almost three centuries later, when Lewis and Clark venture west to find a Northwest Passage, this world becomes the testing-ground for a young nation's continent-spanning dream.
- Introduction
- When Dogs Could Talk
- The Vision
- Cities of Gold
- Thunder Rolling from the Mountains
- Popé
- Dog Soldiers
- In the Garden, Before the Fall
- Corps of Discovery
- The People
Americans head west along many pathways -- following the fur trade into the mountains, fighting for self-determination in Texas, seeking religious freedom in Utah or a better life along the Oregon Trail. But whatever direction they travel, they move closer with every step to a “Manifest Destiny” that will make the West their own.
- Introduction
- Hats
- The Heart of Everything
- Tejas
- In the Midst of Savage Darkness
- We go to conquer
- Trail of Tears
- The Barren Rock
- Westward I Go Free
- What A Country
- So We Die
- A Continental Nation
- Empire Upon the Trails
The Gold Rush brings the whole world to the West, as 49ers from Asia, South America and the eastern states scramble for “a share of the rocks,” littering the hills with mining towns and creating the West’s first metropolis. But in the push to strike it rich, many are violently pushed aside.
- Introduction
- Gold Fever
- My Share of the Rocks
- Kit
- Stay at Home
- The Diggings
- The Right of Conquest
- This Land of Gold & Hope
- Emporium of the Pacific
- Diggers
- The Day of Forty-nine
- Speck of the Future
Civil war comes early to the West. In “Bleeding Kansas,” abolitionists battle for free soil. In Utah, federal troops march against Mormon polygamy. And along the Rio Grande, oppressed Mexican Americans rebel. The war between North and South unleashes brute savagery in the West, and leaves behind an army prepared for total war against the native peoples of the plains.
- Introduction
- Free Soil
- Mountain meadows
- The Republic of the Rio Grande
- This Guilty Land
- Anarchy
- Preachers and Jackass Rabbits
- Who is the Savage?
- The Everywhere Spirit
- Death Runs Riot
A triumph of the human spirit, the transcontinental railroad opens a new era in the West, carrying homesteaders onto the prairies, bringing cowboys up the cattle trail from Texas, helping give women the vote in Utah and sending buffalo hunters onto the plains, where they drive a symbol of the West -- and a way of life -- to the brink of extinction.
- Introduction
- A Grand Anvil Chorus
- White Man's Pipe
- The Artillery of Heaven
- An Instinct for Direction
- One People
- The Woman's Exponent
- Walking Gold Pieces
- Good Company
- How do you like Nebraska?
- Cowboys
- A Wound in the Heart
- The Grandest Enterprise Under God
The federal government tightens its grip on the West, but three bold spirits remain defiant -- Sitting Bull, who prophesies his people's greatest victory but cannot prevent their ultimate defeat; Brigham Young, who must sacrifice a spiritual son to save his church; and Chief Joseph, who triumphs in defeat as an indomitable voice of conscience for the West.
- Introduction
- Yellow Hair
- Tatanka-Iyotanka
- Hard Times
- A Good Day to Die
- Center My Heart
- Good Words
- Fight No More Forever
Newcomers arrive by the millions, bringing a new spirit of conformity to the West. Indian children are taught to forsake their heritage, Mormons are told to abandon a tenet of their faith, and new laws deny Chinese and Mexican Americans a place in society. Yet the legend of the “Wild West” lives on, thanks to the greatest showman of the age.
- Introduction
- The Exodusters
- Rain Follows the Plow
- A Hard Time I Have
- Barbarians
- The Romance of My Life
- The Barrio
- I Must Lose Myself Again
- Friends of the Indian
- Medicine Flower
- Hell Without the Heat
- Gunpowder Entertainment
- Final Vision
- The Geography of Hope
As settlers race to claim tribal lands, Native Americans take up the Ghost Dance, trusting in its power to restore a lost way of life until their hopes are crushed at Wounded Knee. The new century marks a new era in the West, an age of aqueducts and smelters. But the West remains what it has always been, a world waiting for a dream.
- Introduction
- Guthrie
- The Outcome of Our Ernest Endeavors
- Butte
- Like Grass Before the Sickle
- P.S I Like You Very Much
- Progress
- Take It
- Lachryma Montis
- This Isn't History
- To Speak for My People
- I Will Never Leave You
- The Gift
- One Sky Above Us
2017 · Matthew Lippincott · 2h 2m
This previously unseen video is from the John Trudell 1994 Spoken Word Tour at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA. Also appearing are Margaret Palmer, Johnny Jackson and LeRoy Mills. I (Dr. Matthew Lippincott) was asked to video the event by one of the organizer, Randy Ash. On more than one occasion I spent time with John Trudell, and, as many others would also report, found him to be humble, insightful and sincere. Following his death I wanted to put this video online as a form of tribute to such a rare and influential person. I converted the video (original source is SVHS) recently and have been able to improve the quality, although it still doesn't look very good in full screen. Anyone viewing this who knows the names of other people who appear can contact me via my linkedIn account: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?redi... so I can add that information.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghNibe6I6UE
1992 · YouTube · 4m 8s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8ga-krBe4 (music video)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAyWre4j8U4 (live 10 October 1992)
1989 · C-SPAN · 18m
From the C-SPAN Video Library - Mr. Means harshly criticizes the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Indian leadership of reservations. Russell Means died October 22 at the age of 72. This was his first of six appearances on C-SPAN. Entire Hearing: https://www.c-span.org/video/?5987-1/...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVANRroxuOo
1979 · San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive · 4m 55s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Goh0CFSHCs
1969 · YouTube · 1m 35s
1969 Native American Movement, San Francisco, Alcatraz from the Kinolibrary Archive Film Collections. To order the clip clean and high res or to find out more visit http://www.kinolibrary.com. Clip ref AB75. INT interview with Native American man about why Indians are making a stand on Alcatraz, Alcatraz Occupation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TBD0DHDYfg
1967 · Educational/Native Americans · 55m
End of the Trail: American Plains Indian reels 1 and 2 Descibes the American westward movement and its tragic impact upon the American Indian. Discusses the imprint of the West upon the American mind and the American legend. Tells the story of the American Plains Indians. Narrated by Walter Brennan.
https://archive.org/details/endofthetrailtheamericanplainsindiansreel1
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