Indigenous Shorts, Indigenous Feature, Indigenous Documentary, Indigenous Environmental Justice

The Salt Song Trail

The Salt Song Trail ­ Bringing Creation Back Together, tells the story of the sacred Salt Songs (Asi Huviav Puruakain) of the Southern Paiute (Nuwuvi) people. The songs are used in memorial ceremonies, for cultural revitalization and as a spiritual bond for the Southern Paiute people living in the Southwest. Through the beautiful landscape of the Colorado Plateau, painted deserts and river valleys, the Salt Song Trail traces the journeys of ancestral peoples to historic and sacred sites. Esther Figueroa directs.

Manoomin - The Minnesota Way of Life

How important manoomin "wild rice" is to Native communities.

Islands at Risk: Genetic Engineering in Hawai'i

Farmers, teachers, community activists, legal and medical experts give their perspective on the genetic engineering of crops and the patenting of life forms. An earthjustice production.

Drumbeat for Mother Earth

This film has received many awards such as: Best Environmental/Social Justice Film, EarthVision Environmental Film Festival; Best Public Service Film, American Indian Film Festival; Best Environmental Film, New York Independent Film & Video Festival; and many others. The film explores how toxic chemicals contaminate the traditional food web, violate treaty rights and are passed from one generation to the next causing cancer, learning disabilities, and other serious health problems.

The Local Food Challenge

In 2005 seven people, connected to the White Earth Reservation, challenged themselves to eat foods grown within 250 miles of where they lived for one year.
This documentary highlights people living their daily lives using wild, traditional, and local foods. A testament that living in good health supports our bodies, minds and spirits. This documentary was filmed, edited and produced by Sunny Johnson.

Mother Water

A Wuuti Production. LeAnn Lucero directs. A Hopi water issue with Peabody Mining Co taking pristine water from the desert for a coal slurry pipeline. The video reveals Hopi sacred wisdom on water.

Pine Ridge Tiyospaye: A Vision of their Own

Sophie Gergaud & Edith Patrouilleau co-direct.

Where The Green Ants Dream

In a slightly padded but well-acted and relevant drama, an Australian mining company and a group of aboriginals go to court to settle a dispute over sacred land that the company wants to mine. When the Ayers Mining Company sets out to begin construction of its mine with bulldozers and earth-movers, the Aboriginals physically block the work because the site is exactly where the green ants will gather to dream (a 40,000-year-old legend) and it cannot be disturbed.

Salmon On The Backs Of Buffalo

Documents the struggle of four Native American Tribes on the Klamath River of northern California and southern Oregon. From the Boardrooms of Scotland to the remote wilderness of northern California this film follows the fight of Tribes and their allies to 'bring the salmon home.' Several dams block over 350 miles of salmon spawning habitat resulting in a dramatic decline in salmon and other fish species. At risk is not only a fishery, but also the physical health, the spiritual well-being and cultural survival of the Klamath Basin's original inhabitants.

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