Boarding School Stories

Jonathon Skurnik

New Media

Board School Stories is an interactive new media website built around videotaped oral histories that will educate users about the history of the American Indian boarding school system--a policy of forced assimilation imposed on more than 100,000 Native American children between 1879 and 1975.

Injunuity 2

Adrian Baker (Hopi)

Production

Injunuity 2 is a half-hour documentary made-up of nine short films using a mix of animation, music, and real Native voices. Together, the pieces create a thought-provoking collage of reflections on modern America from a contemporary Native perspective. (www.injunuity.org)

Lake of Betrayal: The Story of Kinzua Dam

Paul Lamont, Scott Sackett

Production

When the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers attempts to take their land to build Kinzua Dam, the Seneca people stand up to the government and prevailing political forces of the 1950s and 60s to save their culture, their sovereignty, and their way of life to preserve their future.

Mankiller

Valerie Red-Horse (Cherokee), Gale Anne Hurd

Production

Mankiller explores the life of Wilma Mankiller, the first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation who led her people in building one of the strongest Indian Tribes in America. More than a biography, the program delivers an empowering message.

Metal Road

Sarah Del Seronde (Navajo), Leighton C. Peterson

Production

For decades, thousands of Navajos worked the railroads, maintaining the trans-continental network. Metal Road explores the dynamics of livelihood, family, and the railroads through the lens of a Navajo trackman.

Navajo Math Circles

George Csicsery

Production

Navajo Math Circles documents the meeting of two worlds where some of the country's most accomplished mathematicians and math educators work with children and teachers in the underserved, largely rural Navajo educational system.

Neon Buffalo

Pierre Barrera (Klamath/Lakota), Jeff Franken,
Daniel Montano

Production

Neon Buffalo is a documentary film exploring the history of Indian gaming from the first bingo halls to today's destination resorts. The film delves deeper into Indian Gaming than slot machines and black jack tables. (www.neonbuffalo.com)

Our Fires Still Burn

Audrey Geyer

Acquisition

Our Fires Still Burn suggests how Native Americans can address the serious economic and social issues that affect them while respecting and understanding their heritage and what was done to them by European settlers and the United States government. The stories shared are fresh, uplifting, powerful, startling, despairing, and inspiring. (www.ourfiresstillburn.com)

Red Power Energy

Larry Pourier (Oglala Lakota), Lisa D. Olken,
Rocky Mountain PBS

Production

Red Power Energy is the first-ever, trans-media film project (TV, radio, web-exclusive videos, print articles, photos, and timelines) that explores the promises and perils of fossil fuel and renewable energy production on 14 American Indian reservations in a five state region--Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.

Medicine Woman

Princella Parker (Omaha), Christine Lesiak, NET Television

Production

Medicine Woman is about healing and identity in the lives of Native women past and present. It weaves together the stories of the first Native American doctor, a woman born seven generations ago, and present-day Native healers.

The Blackfeet Flood

Brooke Pepion Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish), Ben Shors

New Media

The media ignored the 29 victims of the worst natural disaster in Montana history, the 1964 flood on the Blackfeet Reservation. The Blackfeet Flood gives voice to the survivors to tell their stories through a mobile app and website that present a series of place-based short films, text, historic documents, and images. (www.sixtyfourflood.com)

Tribal Justice

Anne Makepeace, Ruth B. Cowan

Production

Tribal Justice is a one-hour documentary about the innovative work of two tribal judges, both remarkable women leaders who are using traditional forms of restorative justice to help heal their communities. (www.makepeaceproductions.com/tj)

Watchers of the North

David Finch, Maureen Marovitch

Acquisition

Watchers of the North is an action-packed, six-part documentary adventure series following the training, patrols, and search & rescue missions of Canadian Rangers in two Nunavut communities. (www.watchersofthenorth.com)