#2000-25, 51 minutes; This film explores the spiritual and psychological nature of Northwest Coast Native masks. Featuring dramatic, rarely-seen ceremonies as well as interviews with native spiritual leaders, the film traces the meaning of native art and the effects of government policies which saw the banning of mask ceremonies. The...
#2000-24, 24 minutes; Today, the native peoples of North America are living with two different medical and healing systems. This video looks at differences in western medicine and traditional native healing practices. The program is designed to improve understanding between non-native health care workers and native people. This is an...
#2000-23, 87 minutes, 1988, Four Worlds Development Project, six parts Part 1: The Arrival Amy and Jason are excited about spending a week with their grandfather at a youth camp in the mountains. They have invited their friends, Jenny, Buddy and Michael to come with them. Their Uncle George, who...
2000-22, 29 minutes, National Film Board, 1995; Arrested after the armed standoff at Oka in 1990, Kahentiiosta, proud of her centuries-old Mohawk heritage and part of the movement to achieve self-determination, is separated from her children four days longer than the other women. Her crime? The prosecutor representing the Quebec...
#2000-7, 57 minutes; Power of the state. For the Mohawk Nation in Canada, power is having your own land, your language and culture. What is a nation? What is a state? Questions this man answers for his people to survive. Stories from the heart and from one thousand years. Request
#2000-6, 40 minutes; A Native perspective on raising children which captures the wit and wisdom of two contemporary native families doing an excellent job raising their children. This video presents parenting concepts through an unpretentious, conversational format. Request
#2000-5, 119 minutes, National Film Board of Canada, 1993 On a hot July day in 1990, an historic confrontation propelled Native issues in Kanehsatake and the village of Oka, Quebec into the international spotlight and into the Canadian conscience. Behind Mohawk lines that gruelling summer, producer and director Alanis Obomsawin,...
#2000-4, 20 minutes This video is narrated by Elizabeth, a ten year old Indian girl, who gives a positive, intimate look at the day-to-day life of her family. The family lives in a small, isolated northern community. Throughout the video Elizabeth explains that life has changes for her people, but...
#2000-2, 60 MINUTES, 2001 This video show how we are able to reforge the link between modern naturopathic medicine and the ritual ceremony and spiritual traditions of Native American Medicine. Request
Acts of Defiance #2000-1, 100 minutes, National Film Board of Canada, 1991 Millions of Canadians were glued to the TV sets throughout the summer months of 1990, watching the Mohawk crisis, near Montreal, unfold in front of their eyes. This video captures, in detail, a dramatic summer of confrontation –...
