Directed by Terry Macy and Daniel Hart • 1996 • United States
This award-winning documentary deals with the popularization and commercialization of Native American spiritual traditions by non-Indigenous people. Important questions are asked of those seeking to commercially exploit rituals and sacred ceremonies, as well as those vested with safeguarding sacred ways. Incorporating a wide range of voices from Native communities, the film speaks to issues of cultural appropriation with humor, righteous anger, and thoughtful insight.
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Miss Navajo
Directed by Billy Luther • 2007 • United States
For more than fifty years, Navajo people have gathered in the capital of the Navajo Nation to witness the Miss Navajo Nation beauty pageant. This illuminating documentary traces twenty-one-year-old Crystal Frazier’s quest to win the Miss Navajo cro...
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maɬni—towards the ocean, towards the ...
Directed by Sky Hopinka • 2020 • United States
A poetic experimental documentary circling the origin of the death myth of the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, MAŁNI—TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE follows two individuals as they wander through nature, the spirit world, and somethi...
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Faces, Displays, and Other Imaginary ...
Directed by Woodrow Hunt • 2020 • United States
A familiar route is remapped to contemplate and remember the complicated past of Indigenous labor in the Pacific Northwest.
