Movies: Indigenous

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Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservat...

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A touching portrait of the only woman who participates in the auto racing competitions of Kitigan Zibi, Anishinabe nation. Chalene McConini combines her role as a mother with her passion for speed....

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Saw Eh and his two best friends live in a Karen village in Myanmar, where air strike warnings is a routine....

As a sea nomad, Hook grew up with the ocean as his universe. Now he must make a courageous voyage to salvage the remains of his dying culture...

The story of a town at the mercy of a landscape in transformation; standing on the brink of an encroaching reality, one in which the age-old fears of the inhabitants are being reproduced. A hamlet has survived, perched in a remote location where its ...

Documentation of the preparations and expeditions of the Frente de Atração Arara da Funai, in the state of Pará, Brazil. With the construction of the Transamazônica, the Arara territory (without contact with the white man) is cut in half, and the Ind...

October 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police descended on a peaceful anti-fracking protest led by the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog and their allies. In this film the voices of some of the people involved in the anti-fracking movement talk about what happ...

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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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The thunder is warning, "The earth is sick." To cure it, David Kopenawa gathered in Roraima the Yanomami shamans from various regions. With the help of the spirit food, the hallucinogenic yãkoana powder, they will treat the ills caused by cities and ...

The Acadian Forest once spanned across the entirety of modern day New Brunswick and beyond and has been home to a variety of Indigenous peoples, animals, and tree species. This documentary listens to several experts in their fields, all relating to t...

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

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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Human bodies appear incomplete, divided and fractured by water and fabrics as a way to address the cementing, impoundment, and fragmenting of local streams and rivers. The body parts search for each other in an attempt to reconstitute as a collecti...

The Maya Mam invite you to celebrate with them as we follow Jun Kanek who’s getting ready to participate in a traditional ceremony honouring his people....