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Named locations: Sangay, Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Tungurahua, El Altar
Major themes covered: colorful profile of Ecuador at mid-century and the place of its indigenous people in national life 1943
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Establishing shot: map showing different Indian trives of Mexico, represented by various colors
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Major themes covered: pilot film for a colorful film series about the Indian populations of the Mexican past as well as contemporary Mexico (circa 1939)
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Establishing shot: view of the plains, only scrub brush insight
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Major themes covered: Indian boy must learn the survival and social skills that will sustain him as an adult in Indian society before the white man came
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Major themes covered: avant-garde filmmaker Craig Baldwin offers a critical interpretation of the Spanish conquest of the native peoples of the Southwestern United States
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Establishing shot: Woman explains the purpose of the Many Trails Indian Club of Los Angeles Pow Wow
Named locations:Los Angeles, CA, USA
Major themes covered: Pow-wows, social dances, Indian identity
Native activities shown: Social dances
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Native language spoken: Siouxan words and phrases
Audible: Chants and singing
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Major themes covered: multi-tribal men’s organization with roots in Kiowa Gourd Dance traditions
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Other notes: multi-tribal men’s organization with roots in Kiowa Gourd Dance traditions (1973)
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Named locations: Black Hills, South Dakota, Mt. Rushmore
Major themes covered: Mary Lou lives on a reservation along the Missouri River: comparative lifeways for K-8 audience.
Native activities shown: Children at Indian School near Mt. Rushmore, daily life, farming, sewing, beading, Christian conversion, social and fancy dancing at a fair.
Individuals Named: Mary Lou, sister Vivian, Reverend Browning
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Named locations: Gallup, New Mexico
Major themes covered: anonymous home movie captures the colorfulness of the parade down the main street of Gallup, New Mexico in 1940
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Other notes: anonymous home movie captures the colorfulness of the parade down the main street of Gallup, New Mexico in 1940.
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Major themes covered: enticement from Trans-World Airlines to visit New Mexico reveals the centrality of Native Americans to the culture and commerce of the state
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Other notes: enticement from Trans World Airlines to visit New Mexico highlights the centrality of Native Americans to the culture and commerce of the state (early 1950s). © Dudley Pictures Corporation, edited by Ernest Flook
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Named locations: Pugot Sound
Major themes covered: war canoe races among men of Northwest Indian tribes at the annual Stommish festivities—from the Western Sketchbook film series and Union Pacific Railroad
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Other notes: war canoe races among men of the Northwest Indian tribes at the annoual Strommish festivities - from Western Sketchbook film series and Union Pacific Railroad.