FAU Libraries Media Center - Videographies, Native American Studies

VH 0434 America's Indians: The Trail of Tears
Summary: U.S. Expansion westward led to the seizure of Indian lands and the destruction of Indian. 013 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, AMERICAN STUDIES

VH 3699 Anasazi And Chaco Canyon, The
Summary: This program looks at the fascinating finds at Chaco Canyon: the extraordinary city itself, the mysterious network of streets, the strange cult object, the proofs of their mastery of astronomy; and at the many unanswered questions about the absence of a written language, the meaning of their depictions of humans, and the possible explanations for the disappearance, leaving barely a trace, of the highly advanced Anasazi culture. 023 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4291 Ancestors, The
Summary: Explores three early cultures of North America. The Ansazi transform the arid Southwest and construct the imposing 800-room Pueblo Bonit, depicted inside and out via computer animation. At Mesa Verde, Cliff Palace provides a glimpse into a prospering society. Near present-day St. Louis is bustling Cahokia, the largest city in the U.S. before 1800, yet few have ever heard of it. 049 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: 500 NATIONS

VH 3273 Battle for the Great Plains
Summary: This program focuses on the struggle of the Great Plains people to peacefully coexist with nature and profiles their deep connection to the land and its history. Over 100 years ago, the vast stretch of land reaching from Texas to the Canadian wilderness, home to millions of buffalo and scores of Native American tribes, became known as the Great Plains. When settlers migrated to this frontier, its people, animals, and land were forever changed. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN, ENVIRONMENT, ECOLOGY

VH 5293 Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology
Summary: The remains of more than 10, 000 native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. The bones have become the central issue in a war of ideas that pits scientists, historians, and museum curators against many Native American groups. Is the analysis of the bones valid scientific research, or is it a desecration of Native American culture? 049 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4835 Buster Keaton Film Festival, Volume 2
Summary: Silent. Directed by Buster Keaton. 055 Min. VIDEO Subject: COMMUNICATION, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 3700 Cannibals
Summary: 16th-century missionaries returned from the New World with tales of human sacrifice and consumption. Many of their stories were summarily dismissed because of a perceived bias against Native American peoples. But were their tales of cannibalism fantasy or fact? New evidence suggests that these early accounts may have been vivid descriptions of actual events. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6145 Clash of Cultures on the Great Plains 1865 - 1890
Summary: Provides an in depth perspective on the movement of outsiders into the Great Plains during the latter half of the 19th century and the subsequent conflicts between these new settlers and the indigenous peoples. Focuses on the Lakota Sioux and their leader Red Cloud as it chronicles America's westward expansion and the subsequent destruction of the Lakota way of life. 020 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2512 Dakota Conflict, The
Summary: The Dakota Conflict recounts the war (sometimes called "the Great Sioux Uprising") that began the thirty year struggle for the Great Plains, a struggle that continued at the Little Big Horn and ended at Wounded Knee. In 1862, with much of America consumed by the Civil War, fierce fighting erupted in Minnesota between Dakota Indians and white European settlers. By year's end, hundreds of settlers and Dakotas were dead. 060 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2385 Danzante
Summary: Before Christopher Columbus sailed to the Americas, the people of the Aztec and Toltec-Mayan cultures celebrated their traditions with ritual dances. These dances and the accompanying instruments and costumes have been passed down through the centuries, and now the five member dance troupe Danza Azteca de Anahuac is preserving these ceremonies. 028 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6373 Dineh Nation: The Navajo Story
Summary: The Sovereign Dineh Indian Reservation which stretches through parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah contains vast deposits of oil, coal and uranium. The Navajo people who inhabit the area seek to preserve the land but outsides forces are at work strip mining the coal and polluting the water. 026 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: AWARD WINNING FILMS AND VIDEOS

VH 2513 Faith Keeper
Summary: As the faithkeeper, a chief of Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation, Oren Lyons keeps alive his people's history and traditional values, values that can help us all survive. With Bill Moyers, he discusses ancient Native American prophecies of the ecological disasters we now face, recounts how democracy was modeled on Indian Lyons speaks of respect for nature, of the spiritual basis of law, the importance of participating in community, and of our responsibility to future generations. 058 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6867 Homeland
Summary: Follows four Lakota Indian families from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Through the lives of a grandmother, an artist, a spiritual leader, and a community activist, the problems of the reservation system are balanced with the thriving richness of the culture. 057 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 5875 Honorable Nations: The Seneca's Land Rights
Summary: For 99 years, the residents of Salamanca, NY have rented the land under their homes for an average of $1.00 a year from the Seneca Indians, under the terms of a lease imposed by Congress. Now the lease is about to expire. This film is about the conflict of the survival of the town and justice for the Senecas. Includes the Court's final decision, and interviews with persons representing all sides of the issue. 054 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 3701 Ice Age Crossings
Summary: For years, scholars have traced the population of the New World to a succession of migrations across the Bering Strait beginning 11, 000 years ago. Recent finds in Brazil, dated to more than 20, 000 years ago, have called into question the validity of the crossing dates, Are the artifacts and dates from South America to be believed, and if so, what are their implications for North American prehistory? 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4599 Imagining Indians
Summary: To produce this film, tribal communities in Arizona, Washington, Montana, South Dakota, and New Mexico were visited. The Hopi filmmaker presents a Native perspective on the misrepresentation of Native Americans in feature films. Intercut is a subtheme about how a "noble savage" view of Native Americans has gone hand-in-hand with the commodification and appropriation of their arts and material culture. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, COMMUNICATION

VH 6135 Indian and His Homeland, The
Summary: Provides a 300 year survey of the impact of European civilization on the New World - in particular, its devastating effect on the lives and cultures of the American Indians. 030 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2179 Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Summary: Outlines the heroic life and unique experiences of historian Angie Debo. Her meticulous research of Oklahoma history revealed that the five civilized Indian tribes of Oklahoma were victims of a complex swindle involving major political figures. 060 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 5716 Indians/Soldiers
Summary: Indians: explores the diverse ways in which Indian tribes of the West lived and brought up their children. Includes coverage of the Indian wars with the U.S. Soldiers: examines the often boring and sometimes brutal lives of the soldiers of the west. VIDEO 1993 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: THE WILD WEST

VH 4709 Into the Circle
Summary: From many contemporary ceremonies and songs comes the powwow, an Indian gathering of many tribes. Oklahoma, the original Indian Territory is the ideal location for the powwow. 058 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6403 Ishi of Fire Mountain
Summary: Recounts the life of Ishi, the sole survivor of a small band of Yahi Indians, who was found in 1910 in Oroville, California. Dramatizes the enormous contrast between his former Stone Age existence and his life in early 20th century California. 019 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: BIOGRAPHY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 1806 Itam Hakim, Hopiit
Summary: An innovative, deeply affecting work rooted in Hopi history and culture. Recounts the life story of Ross Macaya, one of the last members of the tribe's storytelling clan, and various epochs in Hopi history. 058 Min. VIDEO 1984 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 3653 Last Of The Mohicans
Summary: One of the bloodiest wars of all times, the French and Indian War has been called the First World War, for its conflicts and consequences spread over three continents. Archaeologists working at the site of Fort William Henry in upstate New York have uncovered remains of numerous English soldiers, thought to have been killed by French and Indian forces. Though the War took its toll, infectious disease may have been the final vector of death. 028 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, DRAMA, U.S. HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2888 Last Stand at Little Big Horn
Summary: The Battle of the Little Big Horn, known as "Custer's Last Stand, " has been one of the most frequently depicted moments in American history-and one of the least understood, still shrouded in myth. The battle that left no white survivors also left two very different accounts of Little Big Horn: one white; one Indian. Using journals, oral accounts and Indian ledger drawings as well as archival and feature films, a Native American novelist and white film maker. 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2185 Myths and Moundbuilders
Summary: "Myths And Moundbuilders" reveals how myths about the past are gradually replaced by real knowledge. It takes viewers on site to look over the archeologists' shoulders as they excavate these mysterious, brooding mounds. 058 Min. VIDEO 1981 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION

VH 4323 Nations of the Northeast, The
Summary: Alternate title, The Northeast: Give and Take. A history of the Iroquois Confederacy and other tribes of the Northeast, including Mohawk, Seneca, Penobscot, Oneida, and Wampanoag. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 5145 Native Americans, The
Summary: This program explores the many similarities among tribal nations, including a profound respect for nature, myth, and tradition; matriarchal governance; a communal lifestyle; a belief in an afterlife; and the use of pictographs, symbols, and patterns rather than an alphabet-based language. 047 Min. VIDEO 1999 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN, EARLY CIVILIZATION Series: ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

VH 3673 Native Land
Summary: Defiantly outspoken and stunningly visual, Native Land exemplifies a phenomenon unique to the era of the Great Depression: a mobilization of artists in a united fight against the social injustices besieging an economically crippled nation. Directed by Leo Hurwitz and Paul Strand. 088 Min. VIDEO 1934 Subject: COMMUNICATION, DRAMA, NATIVE AMERICAN, CIVIL RIGHTS

VH 4330 Native Land
Summary: Through a tapestry of ritual dance, drama, and storytelling, acclaimed author Jamake Highwater traces the path of the nomads who discovered the Americas and created the complex civilizations of the Aztecs, Incas, and other South America tribes. See how the history and legacy of these peoples have survived through their myths and art. Experience the transformation of cave drawings into the dancing frenzy of the hunting ritual. Examine the pottery of the Moche, the sculpture of the Tiahuanaco and the mysterious earth drawings of the Nazcans. 058 Min. VIDEO 1996 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4320 Natives of the Southwest, The
Summary: Alternate title, The Southwest: White Myth, Native Mythology. A history of the Pueblo Peoples, including the Hopi, Navajo, Pima, Isleta, and Apache. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 4355 Navajo, The
Summary: A child learns to tend sheep. A mother teacher's her daughter in law to card, spin, dye and weave wool for rugs. A family sacrifices a sheep in a life restoring, religious ritual. Beginning in the dawn beauty of their homeland and ending with a sheep drive at sunset, this story of Navajo families is cast against the painful events of their history and the vital role of women in religious, social and cultural life. 033 Min. VIDEO Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4324 People of the Great Plains, The (Part 1)
Summary: Alternate title, The Plains, Part 1: All Our Relations. A history of the "Buffalo People, " including the Crow, Comanche, Sioux, Kiowa, and Arapaho tribes. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 4325 People of the Great Plains, The (Part 2)
Summary: Alternate title, The Plains, Part 2: Fields of Grass, Seas of Blood. A continuation of the history of the Great Plains tribes, including the Crow, Comanche, Sioux, Kiowa, and Arapaho. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 7590 Real Story of Jamestown
Summary: Dramatizations are interwoven with recent excavation details to bring to light what really happened to the English settlers of 17th century James Island. 025 Min. VIDEO 2001 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6896 Savagery and the American Indian: Civilization
Summary: Traces developments since 1890 when the Indian reservations were established and the residual tribes were compulsorily moved into them. The program talks of the native peoples efforts to retain more of their own culture in the face government endeavors to assimilate them, and the resultant cultural and social problems. 101 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6895 Savagery and the American Indian: Wilderness
Summary: Covers the period from 1620-1890 when the Indian population had fallen from 5 million to 250, 000. Traces the expansion of white settlement; the result ant depletion of the native peoples and the way in which contemporaries recorded the events. 101 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2511 Search for Ancient Americans, The
Summary: 15, 000 years ago, they crossed the frozen northern seas from Asia to ultimately conquer two continents and forge the civilizations of the New World. Superb hunters and determined survivors, they migrated south until the Americas were theirs. For centuries, we could only guess about their cultures. And then, one by one, the keys to their world were found and the doors to our own past were unlocked...Relive the excitement of five astounding discoveries that 058 Min. VIDEO 1988 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: INFINITE VOYAGE, THE

VH 2213 Search for the First Americans, The
Summary: This program follows the trail of America's first inhabitants. Did they really migrate across a Bering Sea land bridge at the end of the last Ice Age, as the textbooks have long had it--or did they in fact arrive thousands of years earlier, possibly by some different route, as new archaeological evidence increasingly hints? 060 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 5718 Searchers/Mythmakers
Summary: Searchers: tells the story of those who came seeking land or precious metals and the vanishing way of life of the native Americans. Mythmakers: Shows how the mass media, from the 1870s to today mixed fact and fiction to leave us with the mythical land and people of the Wild West. 193 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: U.S. HISTORY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: THE WILD WEST

VH 3101 Seasons of the Navajo
Summary: This portrait of a traditional Navajo family reveals a world where "living well" means kinship with the earth, and unceasing hard work. As the seasons unfold, we travel with the life of the family for a year. This program offers rare insights on a life untouched by the modern world; where nothing is wasted. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION

VH 3072 Secrets Of The Little Bighorn
Summary: One of America's most famous historic landmarks is Little Bighorn, where Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and more than 250 troops of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry rode to their death on June 25, 1876. Detailed facts of the battle were unknown, and the event was shrouded in myth and mystery. Now by a computer generated reconstruction of the battlefield, it shows a Native American triumph rather than Custer's defeat. 023 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4071 Shattering the Silences
Summary: Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions. 086 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN

VH 3217 Snowbird Cherokees, The
Summary: When the Cherokee Indians were forced to move from their lands in the southern Appalachians to Oklahoma in 1838, some hid from soldiers, remained in their homeland, and became the ancestors of the Snowbird Cherokees who still inhabit this area. Includes interviews with Snowbird Cherokees and visits to the Trail of Tears Annual Sing, which reunites the eastern and western branches. 057 Min. VIDEO Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 2177 Spirit of Crazy Horse, The
Summary: The story of the quest by the Sioux Indians to reclaim their ancestral homeland, the Black Hills of South Dakota. 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION, THE

VH 2316 Surviving Columbus: The Story of the Pueblo People
Summary: In the 500 years since Columbus, the history of the American Southwest has been told from the conquerors point of view--until now. 120 Min. VIDEO 1992 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 0273 Telling Our Stories: Narrative & The Moral Imagination-Pt 2
Summary: The first story is about a Latino Indian maiden and her love, a Spanish conquistador. It shows us how two peoples who originally hated one another could, through tragedy, come to respect each other's strengths. The second story, a Native American folk tale from the woodland tribes of the Midwest, is about seven brothers who rise above the jaded behavior of their tribe to thank the Great Spirit for all they have received. 055 Min. VIDEO 1993 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 3632 Transitions: Destruction of a Mother Tongue
Summary: A film by Blackfeet producers exploring the relationship between language, thought, and culture, and examines the impact of languages lost in Native communities with an analysis of why the Mother tongue was destroyed. 028 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 4322 Tribal People of the Northwest, The
Summary: Alternate title, The Far West: Generous Spirit. A history of the northwestern tribes, including the Lummi, Salish, Chumash, Colville, and Yakima. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 4321 Tribes of the Southeast, The
Summary: Alternate title, The Southeast: No Matter How White. A history of the southeastern tribes, including the Choctaw, Seminole, Chickasaw, Creek and Cherokee. 050 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: NATIVE AMERICANS, THE

VH 2607 Virgin and the Bull, The
Summary: Best-selling Mexican author Carlos Fuentes looks for his forebears in the mix of people that created Latin America: Spanish, Arab, Jewish, Indian, and African. He asks what is unique in their culture that is cause for celebration in the 500th anniversary year of Columbus. 059 Min. VIDEO 1991 Subject: EUROPEAN STUDIES, LATIN AMERICAN, NATIVE AMERICAN, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, MIDDLE EAST Series: BURIED MIRROR, THE

VH 3269 Way West, The: Part 1, Westward, The Course of Empire...
Summary: Episode one charts the frantic opening decades of expansion, from the 1840's through the Civil War. In 1849, the Gold Rush sent hundreds of thousands of people rushing across the continent to California and Oregon. Thereafter, the ever quickening pace of expansion would lead to a series of bloody confrontations between Native Americans and whites, culminating the Minnesota uprising of 1862 and two years later, the massacre at Sand Creek. Follow the extraordinary story of how the West was lost and won, from the time of the Gold Rush until after the last gasp of the Indian Wars at Wounded Knee. 087 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE

VH 3272 Way West, The: Part 4, Ghost Dance
Summary: Chronicles the crackdown on Native American tribes across the Northwest in the aftermath of the Battle of the Little Big Horn in June 1876, and charts the final, desperate days of Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. This program examines the rise of the heartbreaking Ghost Dance religion, and the last, horrendous massacre at Wounded Knee. 090 Min. VIDEO 1994 Subject: AMERICAN STUDIES, NATIVE AMERICAN Series: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, THE

VH 5836 When the Fire Dims
Summary: Explores the social and psychological reality faced by many Native Americans, and examines the complex relationship alcoholism, cultural alienation, colonization and urban existence play in one man's life as he struggles to survive this unknown world. The story is told through Jimmy, a Romo Indian who has left the reservation for promises of a better life in the city. 017 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 0433 When the White Man Came
Summary: A brief survey of some of the predominant North American Indian tribes. Describes their geographical locations and a few customs. 013 Min. VIDEO 1986 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 1608 Where The Spirit Lives
Summary: Native children kidnaped by Canadian government agents are forced to live in dreadful boarding schools where they are abused emotionally and physically. St. John is a new arrival who refuses to put up with it and tries to escape. Michelle St. John; Directed by Bruce Pittman. 097 Min. VIDEO 1989 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6868 Who Owns the Past?
Summary: Explores the historical events leading to the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act and the current controversy over Kennewick Man. The late 20th century movement by Indians to reclaim their ancestor's remains succeeded to a considerable degree, but conflicts with goals of scientists continue. 057 Min. VIDEO 2000 Subject: ANTHROPOLOGY, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 3102 Winds of Change: A Matter of Promises
Summary: This is the rarely told story of nations within a nation, of the sovereign Indian tribes that survive in America today. "Like a rock that a river runs around." is how one Indian describes his nation in the stream of U.S. life. " Winds of Change" draws us into the lives of these Native Americans today, and the challenges they face as they try to preserve their cultures. It is a story of promises kept and treaties broken, seen through the eyes of three 060 Min. VIDEO 1990 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN, AMERICAN STUDIES Series: AMERICAN INDIAN COLLECTION

VH 6098 With Hand and Heart
Summary: Filmed over a year-long period of visiting southwestern Native American artists in Arizona and New Mexico and their families, provides a historical perspective of the development of the arts and crafts in Native American cultures. 030 Min. VIDEO 1997 Subject: ART, NATIVE AMERICAN

VH 6097 Woven By The Grandmothers: 19th Century Navajo Textiles
Summary: Shows and explains the wearing blankets from 1840-80 made for the Navajo's own use and the changes that came with their transition to weaving for the tourist trade. Includes commentary and works by present-day weaver/artists. 028 Min. VIDEO 1998 Subject: NATIVE AMERICAN