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.

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...

Examines the violence and civil disobedience leading up to the hallmark decision in U.S. v. Washingt...

This experimental 1970 color documentary film, ostensibly designed to provoke classroom discussion e...
Lakota people from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dak...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...

In this evocative meditation, a disturbing link is made between the resource extraction industries’ ...

Denver’s iconic and Grammy Award-winning musicians reveal the secrets of their success and longevity...
Essence of Healing is a documentary exploring the life journeys of 14 American Indian nurses - their...

Professional, native and antiquarian researchers combine to investigate the archaeological history a...

A fearless horse bonds two men to each other and to the traditions that define their community.

On June 26, 1975, during a period of high tensions on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, tw...

Shot over the course of 18 months in New York City's Lower East Side, METHADONIA sheds light on the ...

Aswang follows a group of people whose lives have been caught up in these events: a journalist who t...

Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indige...

The story of an American hero and the Cherokee Nation's first woman Principal Chief who humbly defie...
The transcript discusses the prevalent drug culture, particularly marijuana use, among youth in nati...

Cocaine has always gotten a bad rap, and for a reason. It is a drug used by the rich and the poor le...

High up in the Northern California mountains there is a place, where not too many get to visit. Its ...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, fra...