November 5, 2014

Educational Version of Young Lakota Now Available for Use in Classrooms
Three young people living on the Pine Ridge Reservation try to forge a better future. When the first female President of Oglala Lakota defies a South Dakota law criminalizing abortion by vowing to build a women's clinic in their sovereign territory, the young tribe members are faced with difficult choices.

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Will Rogers & American Politics
November 4th was not only election day, but it was also Will Rogers' birthday. Get your kids at home or your students excited about politics through the story of Will Rogers. He started out a poor Cherokee kid that was born when Native Americans didn't have the right to vote. Using talent and determination he was able to get to the point where he could sway political action through satire and humor.

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Programs Featuring Native Veterans:
Way of the Warrior
and Choctaw Code Talkers

With November 11 being Veterans Day, we thought we would share two titles of ours that feature Native American veterans. 

Choctaw Code Talkers: In 1918, not yet citizens of the United States, Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked by the government to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War I, setting a precedent for code talking as an effective military weapon and establishing them as America's Original Code Talkers.

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Way of the Warrior: Exploring the warrior ethic among Native Americans, this documentary also reveals how Native communities have traditionally viewed their warriors and why, during the 20th century, Native men and women have signed up for military service at a rate three times higher than non-Indians.

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October 2014

#1 Native Nations: Standing Together for Civil Rights   

 

#2 Games of the North  

 

#3 Seasoned with Spirit   

 

#4 The Thick Dark Fog   

 

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