Sioux

Lower Sioux 5

Establishing shot: Iola Columbus, Lower Sioux Indian Community President (the highest office of the Lower Sioux Indian Community Council), in her office at the Sioux Government/Community Center on Res. Highway, Morton, Minnesota.

Named locations:Washington D.C;  Boulder, Colorado; Native American Rights Fund (NARF) office;  Lower Sioux Indian Pottery Pipestone, Midwest Urban American Center.

Lower Sioux 4

Establishing shot: Manager of the Lower Sioux Pottery, standing behind the counter of the shop in front of the work made at the pottery

Named locations:  Lower Sioux Indian Pottery, Pipestone, Bishop Whipple Mission, The Quarry, Washington D.C., Thunderbird Motel in Minneapolis, Minnesota State University, Mankato, Minnesota River Valley, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Santa Fe NM

Lower Sioux 3

Establishing shot: Rita Good Thunder standing in the Lower Sioux Pottery holding a ball of Minnesota clay on the Lower Sioux Indian Community reservation in Minnesota.

Named locations: Lower Sioux Pottery, Lower Sioux Indian Community reservation, Morton Minnesota, Bloomington Minnesota, Berkeley California, St Cornelius Bishop Whipple Mission Chapel, Olivia Minnesota, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), Santa Fe NM, Little Big Horn Big Horn County Montana

Lower Sioux 2

Establishing shot: Ruben H. St. Clair sitting in his kitchen on the Lower Sioux Indian Community reservation.

Named locations: Lower Sioux Indian Community, Morton MN, Pipestone MN, Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota, St. Cornelia’s Church, Leipzig Germany, Paris France

Lower Sioux 1

Establishing shot: Albert Prescott sitting in a lawn chair outside on the Lower Sioux Indian Community reservation

Named locations: Lower Sioux Indian Community; Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community; Morton, Minnesota, USA; Pipestone, Minnesota, USA; the Brickyard and the Quarry on the reservation where many worked.

Injun Talk

Establishing shot:
Named locations:
Major themes covered: Showman Tim McCoy explains sign language among Plains Indians with emphasis on Blackfeet and Blood tribes
Native activities shown:  
Individuals Named 
Native language spoken:
Audible 
Noteworthy elements:  

Strength of the Hills

Establishing shot: banned shot of Black Hills mountains to Mt. Rushmore
Named locations:
Major themes covered: assesses at mid-century the condition of the Sioux Indians and the work of the Protestant Episcopal Church in ministering to them (1953)
Native activities shown:  
Individuals? Named?  
Native language spoken:
Audible?  
Noteworthy elements:  
Other notes: Episcopal bishop W. Blair Roberts, (1931–1954)
 

Meet the Sioux Indian

Establishing shot: Opens with a Sioux wearing traditional headdress.
Named locations:
Major themes covered: probes this plains Indian tribe
Native activities shown: Sioux riding on horseback, erecting a teepee
Native language spoken:
Audible? yes
Noteworthy elements:
Other notes: Photographed by Edward T. Camenisch

Fallen Eagle

Establishing shot: Opens with a Sioux warrior on horseback as the announcers says that three times in history has the US military been thoroughly annihilated and each time it was the Sioux. "Uncompromisingly brave like the eagle."
Named locations: The Missouri River, Dakotas, Fort Randall, Fort Peck,
Major themes covered: culture and heritage of the past and hope for the future
Native activities shown: Sioux riding on horseback,
Native language spoken: no