Peoples

Acoma

Acoma

Films:

  • The Pueblo Heritage
    Traces the history of the Pueblo Indians, the community dwellers of southern Colorado, to present day pueblos in New Mexico, with emphasis on Taos, Acoma, and Zuni. Discusses the traditions of the Pueblo Indians, their way of life, and their adaptability
Alacaluf (Kawésqar)
Algonquian
Anasazi (Hisatsinom)

Anasazi (Hisatsinom)

Films:

  • Castle of the Ancient Ones
    visit to the ancient cliff dwellings of Keet Seel and Betatakin in the Navajo National Monument in Arizona—from the Western Sketchbook series and Union Pacific Railroad
  • Monument Valley
    Monuments in Arizona; tolerance (parts with children)
  • The Round Up In Arizona
    Different types of roundups
  • The Stone Age Americans
    tour of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and discussion of the ancient people who built them—as seen on TV series, Discovery ‘66
Apache (Ndee)

Apache (Ndee)

Films:
Arapaho
Araucanian (Mapuche)
Auca (Huaorani)
Aymara
Aztec
Aztlan
Blackfoot (Blackfeet)

Blackfoot (Blackfeet)

Films:

  • Blackfeet 01
    interviews about old customs and skills
  • Blackfeet 02
    more discussion of old skills, especially leather work
  • Blackfeet 03
    Black and white home video on building traditional regalia (Blackfeet headdress), Blackfeet Tipi, and discussions of Blackfeet artists and their work
  • Blackfeet 04
    tour of the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana
  • Blackfeet 05
    drum playing, singing, and dancing
  • Blackfeet 06
    speakers at Montana’s Native American Day
  • Blackfeet 07
    continuation of state’s Native American Day officials plus parade
  • Blackfeet 08
    elderly artist explains doll-making—artist John Bearmedicine
  • Blackfeet 09
    singing and dancing
  • Blackfeet 10
    children—Blackfeet Crafts Association—tipi designer—rodeo
  • Blackfeet 11
    puppetry with Indian Marionette Club
  • Blackfeet 12
    dancing—cleaning deer hide—mask making—rodeo
  • Blackfeet 13
    Making an Indian drum
  • Blackfeet 14
    covered: drum-making demonstration ends—Molly Bushu, tipi maker
  • Indians of the Plains - Sun Dance Ceremony
    shows Native American lifestyles and culture—focus on Blackfeet family—show construction of a tipi
  • Injun Talk
    Showman Tim McCoy explains sign language among Plains Indians with emphasis on Blackfeet and Blood tribes
Blood
Chama (Shipibo) (Conibo)
Cherokee

Cherokee

Films:
Cheyenne
Chickasaw

Chickasaw

Films:

  • Ardmore 1
    variety of Choctaw-Chickasaw dances
  • Ardmore 2
    discuss education of children
  • Ardmore 3
    continue discussion of education - chairman Buster Ned interviewed about Indian cultural traditions
  • Ardmore 4
    conclusion of educational discussion
  • Ardmore 5
    focus of school children
  • Ardmore 6
    discuss tribal education
  • The Five Civilized Tribes: An Unfinished Journey
    from TV station KTUL in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this award-winning documentary probes the history of five Oklahoma tribes: Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee, called by the U.S. government, “The five civilized tribes.”
Chinook
Chippewa (Ojibway) (Saulteaux)

Chippewa (Ojibway) (Saulteaux)

Films:
Chitimacha
Choctaw
Chulupi (Nivakle)
Chumash
Coeur d'Alene
Colorado
Colville

Colville

Films:

  • Colville 01
    Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Tribal Council
  • Colville 02
    Tribal leaders discuss career paths for youth
  • Colville 03
    More discussion of careers for tribal young people
  • Colville 04
    Law enforcement on the reservation
  • Colville 05
    Tribal bureaucracy discussed
  • Colville 06
    More discussion of tribal bureaucracy, health and education
  • Colville 07
    Continued discussion of tribal bureaucracy
  • Colville 09
    Requirements need for careers within the tribe
  • Colville 10
    different jobs on the reservation
  • Colville 11
    Various occupations
  • Colville 12
    Outdoor careers, Paskel Sherman Indian School
  • Colville 8
    still more tribal bureaucracy discussed
Comanche
Cree
Creek

Creek

Films:
Crow
Eskimo (Inuit) (Yup 'Ik)

Eskimo (Inuit) (Yup 'Ik)

Films:

  • Angotee
    Follows life of a boy in the Eastern Arctic
  • Lucy Beaver, Skinsewer
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Lucy Beaver explains and demonstrates the native craft of sewing animal skins into useful product
  • Respect for the Past
    the science of archeology as it relates to exploring the Eskimo past, plus career opportunities in archeology
  • The Fascination of Our Past
    an introduction to the science of archeology as it relates to exploring the Eskimo past
  • Uncle Sam’s Men
    historical documentary tells the story of the men and women serving in the Tundra Army of Alaska’s Territorial Guard during World War II where more than half of the Guard was comprised on Yup’ik and Inupiaq Eskimos
  • A Dancing People "Yupiit Yuraryarait"
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: dancers and musicians from nine Yup’ik Eskimo villages gather in St. Mary’s for the first major regional dance festival in more than 50 years—film documents three days of dancing, gift giving, and contests.
  • Arctic Environment
    Naturalist photographer Herman Kitchen captures the world of the Arctic in the summer
  • Arctic Seal Hunters
    hunt for seal meat
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 1993 Part I
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska—groups participating include the Koshare Indian Dancers of Colorado; King Island Dancers of Nome; White Sail Dancers of Laverencia from Chutotka, Russia; Stebbins; Emmonak; Hoop
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 1993 Part II
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska—groups participating include the Koshare Indian Dancers of Colorado; King Island Dancers of Nome; White Sail Dancers of Laverencia from Chutotka, Russia; Stebbins; Emmonak; Hoop
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 2010 Part I
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring—groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
  • Cama-i Dance Festival 2010 Part II
    annual dancing event attracts performers and observers from throughout Alaska in the Spring—groups participating include the Bethel Traditional Dancers; Bethel High School Warriors Dancers; St. Mary’s Dancers; Tomodachi Daiko Taiko Drummers; Chevak Dancer
  • Canadian Photographer Lives as an Eskimo (newsreel)
    Douglas Wilkinson lives for 14 months with Eskimos in Canada
  • Cross of the Yukon
    history of St. Mary’s Mission, an orphanage and school founded by Jesuits priests and Ursuline sisters in 1905 in Akulurak, on the Yukon River, and closed down in 1987
  • Duty Bound
    chronicles the experiences of the Second Scout Batallion of the Alaska Army National Guard, composed primarily of Yup’ik soldiers from subarctic Western Alaska, as they deploy to Northern Kuwait for one year during Operation Iraqi Freedom
  • Eskimo
    Native life north of Nome, Alaska—as seen on TV series, Bold Journeya
  • Eskimo Arts and Crafts
    Craft activities of the Inuit of Baffin Island
  • Eskimo Children
    Eskimo of Nunivak Island
  • Eskimo Hunters (Northwestern Alaska)
    (Northwestern Alaska): from The World and Its People series Produced by Louis de Rochemont
  • Eskimo Summer
    Essential summer activities Inuit groups that live apart from settlements in Canada and USA
  • Eskimo Walrus Hunt
    Eskimo hunters in kayaks search for walrus in the early 1930s
  • Eskimos Winter in Western Alaska
    Winter in Western Alaska
  • Eyes of the Spirit
    shows the creation of three masks designed and carved by Yup’ik master craftsmen—and presents a public performance by the Bethel Native Dancers of stories and songs, a performance that revived masked dancing in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska
  • Following the Star
    celebrating Christmas in the Russian Orthodox manner in the Orthodox villages of the lower Kuskokwim River
  • Frontiers of the North
    (Parts 1 and 2): the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition begins to organize the Northwest
  • Giant of the North
    installment of Primitive Peoples series
  • How to Build an Igloo (Arctic Notebook 1)
    Inuits show how to construct an ice home
  • Just Dancing
    dancers from the Yukon/Kuskokwim Delta villages perform
  • Kotzebue 1
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Interviews about old customs and skills
  • Kotzebue 2
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: More discussion of old skills, especially leather work
  • Kotzebue 3
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Discussion of the old ways concluded
  • Kotzebue 4
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Discuss the Historical Preservation Project and Eskimo past
  • Kotzebue 5
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Eskimo Olympics festivities
  • Kotzebue 6
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Interview and more July 4 festivities
  • Kotzebue 7
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Blanket toss and dancing at festivities
  • Kotzebue 8
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: Scenes of everyday life
  • Land of the Long Day
    Inuit life on Baffin Island during the changing seasons
  • Nanook of the North
    celebrated early documentary from documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty explores the rugged life of Eskimos
  • Nick Charles, Carver
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: wood carver Nicholas Charles demonstrates and explains his art
  • North West Frontier
    Study of Indians, Eskimos, and whites living together and interacting in settlements in Canada’s
  • Northward to Nome
    Sullivan Richardson adventure film in Alaska
  • Northward to Nome Outtakes
    Unused footage from Sullivan Richardson’s visit to Kotsebue and Nome, Alaska in late 1940s
  • Old Dances New Dancers
    documents the first annual Young People’s Eskimo Dance Awareness Festival held in Chevak, Alaska—a festival to revitalize traditional Yup’ik dancing among young people.
  • Parlez-vous Yup’ik?
    a troupe of amateur actors from Toksook Bay, Alaska travel to Nancy, France to present David Hunsacker’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone at the Theatre des Nations—then at LaMama Playhouse in New York City [for the actual play, see Yup’ik Anti
  • Ramparts of Two Worlds
    Hunting and daily activities of Eskimos of Little Diomede Island in Alaska
  • St. Mary's Potlatch
    residents of three lower Yukon River villages gather in St. Mary’s to celebrate the traditional Yup’ik Messenger Feast at which young people coming of age are honored
  • Storyknifing
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: explains the traditional manner in which children are entertained by native storytellers using storyknives to sketch images in the mud while telling the legends of the community
  • Tales of the Tundra
    Yup’ik storytellers spin tales of fantastic creatures, ghosts, and the mischievous “Little People”
  • The Treasures of Our Past
    focuses on artifacts and what they tell scholars about our past through a visit to the Smithsonian Institution and the collection assembled by Edward Nelson
  • The Treasures of Our Past
    focuses on artifacts and what they tell scholars about our past through a visit to the Smithsonian Institution and the collection assembled by Edward Nelson
  • The Way We Live Part 1
    two master carvers demonstrate the making and use of the traditional fish trap—in the Yup’ik language
  • The Way We Live Part 2
    Eskimo women explain and enjoy a seal party—in the Yup’ik language
  • The Way We Live Part 3
    old men explain the use and care of dog sleds
  • The Way We Live Part 4
    master carvers from Nunivak Island explain and demonstrate the function of the dance stick—in Yup’ik language
  • Timber and Totem Poles
    Native American totem poles
  • Uncle John, Carver
    The KYUK TV Productions Collection: ivory and wood carver John Kusowyuk demonstrates and explains his art
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part I
    magnificent silent color film of Eskimo life in Northern Alaska; produced and edited by Edwin C. Kraft (1955-1965)
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part II
    Silent color film of Eskimo life in Alaska by Edwin C. Kraft
  • Utkeagvikmuit: The Barrow Eskimo Part III
    Magnificent silent color film of Eskimo life in Northern Alaska; produced and edited by Edwin C. Kraft (1955-1965)
  • We Lived With the Eskimos
    American couple explores the state of Indian culture in Michoacán, Mexico
  • Yup’ik Antigone
    presentation of David Hunsacker’s adaptation of the 2,500-year-old Greek play by Sophocles—here realized in the Yup’ik language with English language narrator/interpreter
Guajira (Wayuu)
Guarani
Guatemala
Haida
Havasupai
Hohokam
Hopi

Hopi

Films:
Inca
Inde
Iroquois
Jemez
Jivaro

Jivaro

Films:

  • Indians of the Andes
    explores the Colorado and Jivaro Indians in the Northern Andes of Ecuador—as seen on TV series, Bold Journey 126
  • Orinoco Adventure
    adventures of Hector Acebes on the Orinoco River in South America and his encounters with the Jivaro headhunters—as seen on TV series Bold Journey
  • The Head Hunters of Ecaudor
    anthropologist Robert Kaulp visits Ecuadorian Indians infamous as headhunters-- as seen on TV series Bold Journey
Kahuia
Kalispel
Kiowa
Kogui (Kogi)
Kwakiutl
Kwakwaka’wakw
Lacandon (Maya)
Lumbee
Lummi
Mac’á (Maka)
Makah

Makah

Films:

  • Makah 1
    reservation scenes and tribal museum
  • Makah 2
    reservation scenery, tribal governance and education
  • Makah 3
    education of children
  • Makah 4
    history of the Makah people
  • Makah 5
    more history of Makah people; canoe racing
  • Outdoor Fish Cookery
    Makah Indians from Neah Bay, Washington catch and barbeque wild salmon in a segment from a Department of the Interior film offering tips on cooking seafood outdoors
Maya [Honduras]
Maya [Yucatán, Mexico]
Menominee
Miccosukie
Miscellaneous

Miscellaneous

Films:

  • Voices From The Land 3
    TV program discussing Indian doctors and Indian music
  • 1976 Convention Of The National Indian Education Association NIEA 1
    1976 Convention Of The National Indian Education Association NIEA 1: speeches by Senator Joseph Montoya and NIEA President Demmert
  • 19th Inter-Tribal Ceremonial
    anonymous home movie captures the colorfulness of the parade down the main street of Gallup, New Mexico in 1940
  • Archaic Indian Carvings
    raw footage of ancient Indian petroglyphs in deserts of Southern California
  • Buffalo Lore
    importance of the buffalo to the American Indians—includes rare appearance of a white buffalo
  • Canyon Conquest
    The significance of the Colorado River as a possible power source or irrigation source, especially for California and Arizona
  • Ceremonial Days
    Indian culture as displayed at Gallup, New Mexico during annual pow wow
  • Children of the Plains Indians
    Indian boy must learn the survival and social skills that will sustain him as an adult in Indian society before the white man came
  • Down Where North Begins
    colorful profile of Ecuador at mid-century and the place of its indigenous people in national life
  • Fiestas of the Hill
    cultural celebrations of Mexican villagers combine Aztec, Spanish, and Indian residuals
  • Flight to New Mexico
    enticement from Trans-World Airlines to visit New Mexico reveals the centrality of Native Americans to the culture and commerce of the state
  • Golden State Gourd Dance Society
    multi-tribal men’s organization with roots in Kiowa Gourd Dance traditions
  • Harry Wright's Mexican Indian Series
    pilot film for a colorful film series about the Indian populations of the Mexican past as well as contemporary Mexico
  • How To Make Fry Bread
    Indian cook demonstrates the technique
  • Illu Tica
    filming movie with Peruvian beauty Pilar Pilet as Inca goddess of creation in Peruvian Amazon jungle
  • Indian Dances
    beautiful costumes highlight silent footage of a theatrical dance presentation of Indian culture from the Northwest Coast - filmed by Alaska film maker Elmer King
  • Indian Hunters
    native American Indians traveling on canoe through scenic wilderness in Canada
  • Indian Life
    educational film envisions Indian society before the arrival of the Europeans
  • Indians of the Plains - Life in the Past
    traditional tribal lifestyles
  • Klee Wyck
    Emily Carr, a Canadian painter of the Indian culture of coastal British Columbia
  • Learning About the Past
    archeologists from University of Indiana explore Indian remains
  • Making Primitive Stone Tools
    teacher shows how historic Canadian Indians fashioned tools from available stones
  • Many Trails Indian Club of Los Angeles Pow Wow
    Pow-wows, social dances, Indian identity
  • NCAI: Indian History PSAs
    series of Public Service Announcements from the National Congress of American Indians in praise of Indian history and culture
  • NCAI: Indian Workers PSAs
    series of TV Public Service Announcements encouraging the employment of Indian workers—from the National Congress of American Indians
  • NIEA 10
    Indian comedian and rock band XIT perform
  • NIEA 11
    interview official from the National Endowment for the Arts
  • NIEA 12
    NIEA special meeting regarding Title IV funding for Indian education
  • NIEA 13
    questions and answers regarding Title IV and Indian education
  • NIEA 2
    discuss health care and educational issues
  • NIEA 3
    education official questioned, educator speaks
  • NIEA 4
    interview Indian educators
  • NIEA 5
    more interviews with Indian educators
  • NIEA 6
    professor lectures on disparagement of Indians in textbook
  • NIEA 7
    funding Indian educational projects
  • NIEA 8
    cultural education and bi-lingual issues
  • NIEA 9
    flutist and singer entertain convention
  • One With The Earth
    exhibition of arts and crafts of Southwest tribes
  • Plains Indian Girl
    Mary Lou lives on a reservation along the Missouri River
  • Red Man’s Regatta
    war canoe races among men of Northwest Indian tribes at the annual Stommish festivities—from the Western Sketchbook film series and Union Pacific Railroad
  • Return of the Buffalo
    celebrates the return of bison populations in Canada and the United States
  • Rhythm: Instruments and Movements
    Native Indian (Thundering Hill) comes into an elementary class room and demonstrates native songs with drums
  • Saving Texas Prehistory
    archeology along Guadalupe River in Texas to discover information about prehistoric Indians in Texas
  • The Exiles (Part 1)
    The Exiles twelve hours in the lives of a group of young Indian men and women transplanted from the reservation to downtown Los Angeles
  • The Exiles (Part 2)
    twelve hours in the lives of a group of young Indian men and women transplanted from the reservation to downtown Los Angeles
  • The Loon’s Necklace
    folk tale of British Columbia Indians told with people in authentic masks
  • The People Who Vanished
    archeological expedition by UCLA students and professors to Mexico ruins—as seen of TV series, True Adventure
  • Trappers and Traders
    second of two short films that comprise "Portage"
  • Voices From The Land 1
    TV program discussing artist Jerome Tiger
  • Voices From The Land 2
    TV program discussing Indian art and culture
  • Warbonnet Congress
    Indian finery and games at National Indian Congress in Pendleton, Oregon—from the Western Sketchbook film series and Union Pacific Railroad
  • Wooden Faces of Totonicapan
    the art of making wooden masks in Totonicapan, Guatemala
  • ¡O No Coronado!
    avant-garde filmmaker Craig Baldwin offers a critical interpretation of the Spanish conquest of the native peoples of the Southwestern United States
Miwok
Mohawk

Mohawk

Films:
Muckleshoot
Nambe
Navajo (Diné)

Navajo (Diné)

Films:
Nez Perce
Nisenan (Maidu)
Oneida
Osage
Otoe
Oyana (Carib)
Paiute
Pima

Pima

Films:

  • An Indian Bible
    Religion of the Pima Indian
  • River People
    The significance of the Gila River, and irrigation, for the Akimel O'odham (Pima); the daily activities of an Akimel O'odham (Pima) family; The rise and decline of Pima farming and the plan to revitalize native farming/harvesting
Pomo
Potawatomi
Pueblo

Pueblo

Films:
Quechua
Quiché (K’iche) (Maya)
Quillayute
Quinault
Q’ero (Q’iru) (Quechua)
Sac and Fox
San Juan (Acjachemen)
Seminole

Seminole

Films:
Seminole (Florida)

Seminole (Florida)

Films:
Seneca
Shawnee
Shinnecock
Shoalwater Bay (Chehalis) (Willapa Hills)

Shoalwater Bay (Chehalis) (Willapa Hills)

Films:
Shoshone
Sioux

Sioux

Films:
Skokomish
Suquamish
Taos
Tarahumara (Rarámuri)
Tarascan (Purépecha)
Tesuque
Tlingit
Tohono O'odham (Papago)
Tununermiut
Turahumara
Tuscarora
Unknown
Wampanoag
Waorani
Winnebago
Wintun Band (Yoche Dehe)
Xavante
Yakama

Yakama

Films:
Yaqui
Yokuts
Zapotec
Zuni