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Urban Rez is a 2013 American documentary film [1] about the repercussions of the Urban Relocation Program [2] (1952–1973), the greatest voluntary upheaval of Native Americans during the 20th century. It was directed by Larry T. Pourier and written by Lisa D. Olken. [3] The film examines policies that encouraged Native Americans to relocate. [4]
We Shall Remain (2009) is a five-part, 6-hour documentary series about the history of Native Americans in the United States, from the 17th century into the 20th century. It was a collaborative effort with several different directors, writers and producers working on each episode, including directors Chris Eyre, Ric Burns and Stanley Nelson Jr. [1] Actor Benjamin Bratt narrated the entire series.
Rocky Mountain PBS is a network of PBS member television stations serving the U.S. state of Colorado.Headquartered in Denver, it is operated by Rocky Mountain Public Media, Inc., a non-profit organization which holds the licenses for most of the PBS member stations licensed in the state, with the exception of KBDI-TV (channel 12) in Broomfield, which serves as the Denver market's secondary (or ...
The film received the Best Documentary Feature Award at the American Indian Film Festival in San Francisco, was nationally broadcast on PBS as part of the POV series, on August 14, 2001, and was seen by three million people. In 2005, the Council on Foundations awarded the film the prestigious Henry Hampton Award for Excellence in Film and ...
Trudell is a 2005 documentary film about American Indian activist and poet John Trudell. The film traces Trudell's life from his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, through his role as a leader of the American Indian Movement. It also covers his rebirth as a musician and spoken word poet after his wife died in a house fire suspected as arson.
Co-directed by Ben West and Aviva Kempner, "Imagining the Indian" chronicles the battle to persuade professional, college and high school sports teams to shed their offensive nicknames and imagery.
The documentary is partly structured as a road movie, with Diamond visiting locations across the United States as well as the Canadian North.In the U.S., he is traveling by "rez car," a broken down automobile often used on Indian Reservations, as demonstrated in Reel Injun with a sequence from the film Smoke Signals.
They created an exhibition for the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian about the Indigenous influence on American music, titled “Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture”, [4] borrowing a title from the Oscar-winning song, "Up Where We Belong" co-written by Buffy Sainte-Marie, [5] an Italian-American who ...