Movies: Indigenous

This documentary short is a cinematic recording of Tales from a Prairie Drifter, a stage comedy about the North-West Resistance during the opening of the Canadian West. Highlighting the roles of Louis Riel, the Resistance leader, prime minister Sir J...

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Mateo, a Metis teenager, is losing his bearings following the suicide of his father. In denial and anger, he will do anything to deny his native origins....

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Director Malakye Tsosie explores his identity through the Navajo language. A language that is spoken less frequently over the generations. However, the resilience of the language breathes through his journey with a small Navajo radio station, his fam...

In 1974 a group of Mohawk Indians occupied a defunct girls camp in New York's Adirondack mountains and established a community they called Ganienkeh. Aiming to practice a more traditional lifestyle, and asserting aboriginal title to the land, they st...

Thea is an 8-year-old Ojibwe girl who is in the process of learning how to speak her traditional language from her mother....

It is taking decades for Canada to come to terms with its history in the Arctic, and with its relationship to all its indigenous people. “Kikkik” is the story of government mistakes and neglect, of starvation, murder, freezing death, but, in the end,...

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Filmmaker Mary Galloway's feature documentary looks at the origins and continued impact of the famed Cowichan sweater....

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At the age of eight, José shows us his village, Nutashkuan, and everything he loves there....

Traditional Northwestern Indigenous spiritual images combined with cutting-edge computer animation in this surreal short film about the power of tradition. Three urban Indigenous teens are whisked away to an imaginary land by a magical raven, and the...

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The Chuj tell the story of three brothers and the reason behind the origin of the largest salt mines in San Mateo....

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Lost short film about the encounter of Juan Diego with the Virgin of Guadalupe....