When the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed an ordinance separating industrial hemp from its illegal cousin, marijuana, Alex White Plume and his family glimpsed a brighter future. Having researched hemp as a sustainable crop that would grow in the inhospitable soil of the South Dakota Badlands, the White Plumes envisioned a new economy that would shrink the 85% unemployment rate on the Pine Ridge Reservation. They never dreamed they would find themselves swept up in a struggle over tribal sovereignty, economic rights, and common sense.
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A young Native American man on his way to visit his uncle learns about his Navajo heritage by attend...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

“Use Your Eyes” is a police training film produced by the Alhambra Police Department, California, in...

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The title of this video, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma, suggests a way of looking...
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...

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An experimental look at the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwes...

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For more than 120 years, Mohawk ironworkers have raised America’s modern cityscapes. They are called...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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An educational film sponsored and distributed by the Los Angeles-based Narcotic Educational Foundati...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

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