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