November 12, 2014

LaDonna Harris: Indian 101

Join Comanche Political & Social Activist at a Special Screening in New Mexico 

 

The screening of this profile of LaDonna Harris will be followed by an interactive discussion, including:

  • Ron Solimon, Director, Center for Lifelong Education (CLE), Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA)
  • LaDonna Harris, President, Americans for Indian Opportunity
  • Julianna Brannum, Director/Producer, Naru Mui Films
  • Andrea Hanley, Membership and Program Coordinator, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) at IAIA
  • Dr. Robin Minthorn, Asst. Prof. Educ. Leadership/Native American Studies, UNM

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Bridge the Gap to Pine Ridge Refed November 3 on PBS

 

Twenty-five-year-old Brooklynite Chris Bashinelli of The Sopranos fame brings a new meaning to the term cultural exchange in Bridge the Gap to Pine Ridge. In two eventful weeks, Chris gets a taste of what it means to be a modern-day Oglala Lakota Indian on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota--a part of the United States that at times, is either in the media for its poverty statistics or is completely forgotten.

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Sovereign Bodies Blog 
"Using Traditional Foods to Heal from Within" by Sheena Roetman (Lakota/Creek)

 

When most people talk about eating disorder recovery, they often talk about isolated treatments -- getting an individual's weight up or down to a pre-determined "healthy" standard (often by any means necessary), using psychotherapy to pinpoint and "fix" whatever triggered the disorder in the first place, often prescribing medications to regulate hormones, moods and other functions.  

 

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Video Profile of Charon Asetoyer
Part of the Sovereign Bodies Series
Charon Asetoyer (Comanche) is currently the Executive Director and Founder of the Native American Community Board and the Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. She has been the leading pathfinder for the community's improved health and well-being, providing health information, referral services and a resource center on education, reproductive justice, violence against women, economic development, land and water rights.

 

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Producer Profile: Sydney Freeland
Shirley Sneve and Sydney Freeland

Recently, Vision Maker Media executive director Shirley Sneve (Lakota) caught up with Sydney Freeland (Navajo) after a screening of her movie Drunktown's Finest at imagineNATIVE.   

 

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Vision Maker Media Welcomes Producer Boots Kennedye

Vision Maker Media is proud to announce Charles "Boots" Kennedye (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma) has joined our team as a producer. You may know him from his work at OETA or with Vision Maker Media titles like Urban Rez

 

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Vision Maker Media Welcomes Development Coordinator
Dawn Amory

Vision Maker Media is proud to announce Dawn Amory as our Development Coordinator. Dawn has also held previous positions at Nebraska Educational Telecommunications and in the higher education sector.

 

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