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1) Hostiles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne war chief and his family through dangerous territory back to tribal lands.
2) Jimmy P
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France during WWII, is admitted to Topeka Military Hospital in Kansas, an institution specializing in mental illness. Although he does not suffer any psychological causes for his painful symptoms, he is diagnosed as schizophrenic. Nevertheless, the hospital management decides to seek the opinion of Georges Devereux, a French anthropologist, psychoanalyst and specialist in Native American culture....
3) Wind river
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Language
English
Description
Rewarded for his heroism in the Civil War, Lt. John Dunbar wants to see the American frontier before it is gone. Assigned to an abandoned fort with a Sioux tribe as his only neighbor, he overcomes the language barrier and mutual fear and distrust to become a friend of the tribe. But his knowledge of their ultimate fate forces him to make a crucial decision.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It tells the astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands? The film relates the stories of Native American warriors from their own points of view, stories of service and pain, of courage and fear.
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little Bear to life. They bond, embarking on an amazing adventure, until Omri's friend Patrick brings a 6-shooting cowboy to life and the secret is in danger of being revealed.
8) Pocahontas
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Tenth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
Legendary tale of Native American Pocahontas and her unlikely romance with British Captain John Smith.
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Learn about America's history through the use of graphics and animations, live-action portrayals of historic figures and stories told from a child's point of view. Topics featured in this video include Stewards of the Earth, The Story of Pocahontas, Many Faces One Heart: Diversity of Cultures, Tecumseh and the Trail of Tears, Who are the Native Americans?.
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
"From the Spanish conquistadors of the 16th century to the English colonists of the 18th, the settling of America often came at the cost of Native American blood. But the 350-year conflict between European settlers and Indian natives reached its apex with the territorial expansions of the 19th century, when the notion of Manifest Destiny justified a series of battles and massacres that virtually wiped out the indigenous population. This five-part...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This original, eight-part series on four volumes, documents the history of American Indian achievement, its defining role in the growth of the country, and its influence on current events. The series highlights the many contributions of American Indians that have influenced and shaped the history of the United States.
13) Broken arrow
Language
English
Description
Tom believes the Apaches are treated unfairly. After befriending their leader Cochise and arranging a truce, he is called upon by an Army General to negotiate a government peace treaty, but later is the target of a renegade ambush.
14) 500 nations
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
"500 Nations is an eight-part documentary that looks back at life in North America before the arrival of the Europeans, then follows the epic struggles of Indian Nations as the continent is reshaped by contact"--Booklet.
16) Spirit rider
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A teenager boy who has been in foster homes for ten years, is placed back on his family's reservation with his grandfather, where he struggles to fit in.
17) Native America
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Ancient wisdom and modern science are combined to shed light on who were America's first people.
18) Only the valiant
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
A Cavalry officer volunteers for a suicidal mission to fight the hostile Apaches in an effort to prove his loyalty to his men and the woman he loves.
19) Flaming star
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
Digitally transferred anamorphic widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Set in west Texas in the years after the Civil War, this is the story of a half-breed who's mother is an Indian and whose father is white who is torn between two worlds. After an Indian uprising, his problems mount as he is feared by the whites, mistrusted by Indians and hunted by both.
20) Go West
Series
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
[Go West] A hapless young man, heeding the expansionist call of Horace Greeley, idealistically hops a freight train to meet his destiny. [The scarecrow] Follows the unhealthy competition between roommates vying for the attentions of a young lady. [The paleface] Buster helps a Native American tribe defend their land from greedy developers.
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