THE FILMS
ACOMAALGONQUIN● The Pueblo Heritage: Zuni, Acoma, and Taos Pueblos
ANASAZI (HISATSINOM)● How Indians Build Canoes (1946)
● Portage: combines two short film—How Indians Build Canoes plus Traders and Trappers—into a single viewing experience
m Festival Of American Folklife 5: William Kamonda explains the art of making canoes (1976)
APACHE● Castles of the Ancient Ones: visit to the ancient cliff dwellings of Keet Seel and Betatakin in the Navajo National Monument in Arizona—from the Western Sketchbook series and Union Pacific Railroad (1958)
● Monument Valley: visit to Navajo land in Northern Arizona includes visit to Anasazi settlement—from the Vagabond TV series (1959)
● Round Up In Arizona: Richard Hathcock explores the Indian lands and ruins in Arizona—as seen on TV series Bold Journey (1957)
● Stone Age Americans: tour of Mesa Verde cliff dwellings and discussion of the ancient people who built them—as seen on TV series, Discovery ‘66
ARAPAHO● Apache: Apache life and culture on an Indian reservation in eastern Arizona
● The Apache Indian: life on an Apache Indian reservation (1945)
● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
m Apache History 1: historian Edgar Perry discusses the Apache past
m Apache History 2: Edgar Perry continues his stories
m Apache History 3: Edgar Perry concludes historical discussion
m White Mountain Apache Culture Center 1: Edgar Perry concludes his historical presentation—interview Apache cowboy—tribal puberty-rite ceremony
m White Mountain Apache Culture Center 2: Sun Dance is puberty rite for Apache girls
m White Mountain Apache Culture Center 3: Sun Dance ceremony continues—Apache women demonstrate preparation of fry bread
AUCA● Injun Talk: explains sign language among Plains Indians (1946)
AYMARA● I Saw Aucas Pray: re the Ecuadoran Indians who killed three U.S. missionaries in the late 1950s
AZTALAN● The High Plain: Julien Bryan portrait of the highlands of Bolivia and the descendents of the ancient Aymara Indians who live “on the very rooftop of the Western world” (1944)
● Vicuna Country: Eric Pavel travels to the high altitudes of Peru in search of this shy camel-like animal famous for its soft fur—encounters Indians and their culture—from the Bold Journey television series (1959)
AZTEC● Wisconsin Outdoors: Aztalan Indians anthropologists from Wisconsin Historical Society describe their archeological dig (circa 1960)
BLACKFEET● Rough Road to Panama: explorer Sullivan Richardson photographs Aztec gold and archeological ruins (1947)
BLOODm Blackfeet 1: interviews about old customs and skills
m Blackfeet 2: more discussion of old skills, especially leather work
m Blackfeet 3: discussion of the old ways concluded
m Blackfeet 4: tour of the Museum of the Plains Indian in Browning, Montana
m Blackfeet 5: drum playing, singing, and dancing
m Blackfeet 6: speakers at Montana’s Native American Day
m Blackfeet 7: continuation of state’s Native American Day officials plus parade
m Blackfeet 8: elderly artist explains doll-making—artist John Bearmedicine explains his historical drawings
m Blackfeet 9: singing and dancing
m Blackfeet 10: children—Blackfeet Crafts Association—tipi designer—rodeo
m Blackfeet 11: puppetry with Indian Marionette Club
m Blackfeet 12: dancing—cleaning deer hide--mask making—rodeo scenes
m Blackfeet 13: making an Indian drum
m Blackfeet 14: drum-making demonstration ends--Molly Bushu, tipi maker
m Blackfeet 14: Molly Bushu, tipi maker
● Injun Talk: explains sign language among Plains Indians with emphasis on Blackfeet and Blood tribes (1946)
● Indians of the Plains—Sun Dance Ceremony: shows Native American lifestyles and culture—focus on Blackfeet family—show construction of a tipi (no op) (Academy 1954)
CHAMIS● Injun Talk: explains sign language among Plains Indians with emphasis on Blackfeet and Blood tribes (1946)
CHEROKEEm Beyond the Andes: fishermen visit Indian settlements as they take dugout boat through the Ucayali River of eastern Peru in search of killer pinana—corporate film from Johnson Motors (1954)
CHICKASAW● Sports: Cherokee teams in North Carolina play stickball game from which lacrosse came
● The Rivers Still Flow: Howard Red Bird is a Cherokee comes to Bacone College for Indians in Muskogee, Oklahoma (1950)
● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
● W.W. Keeler: president of Phillips 66 Oil Company speaks on behalf of employing Indians in TV Public Service Announcement from the National Congress of American Indians (1970s)
m Parade: festivities in North Carolina town
CHIPPEWA (OJIBWAY) (SAULTEAUX)m Ardmore 1: variety of Choctaw-Chickasaw dances
m Ardmore 2: discuss education of children
m Ardmore 3: continue discussion of education—chairman Buster Ned interviewed about Indian cultural traditions
m Ardmore 4: conclusion of educational discussion
m Ardmore 5: focus of school children
m Ardmore 6: discuss tribal education
CHITIMACHAm 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 6: Audrey Pawlis explains the art of Making quill pens
m Bay Mills Indian Community 1: reservation scenes and culture
m Bay Mills Indian Community 2: culture and history
m St. Croix Tribe 1: tribal Chairman and others discuss and demonstrate aspects of life of this tribe
m St. Croix Tribe 2: daycare facility shows—bead work is shown
m St. Croix Tribe 3: interview with reservation support staff
m Sault Ste. Marie 1: Indian education
m Grand Portage Reservation 1: Ojibwa Cultural Center--discuss aspects of native culture
m Grand Portage Reservation 2: describe the Reservation—meet Minnesota Teacher of the Year 1976
m Grand Portage Reservation 3: ceremony honors Teacher of the Year
m Grand Portage Reservation 4: Lou Anderson and her son Rick Anderson discuss cultural artifacts found on Grand Portage reservation
m Grand Portage Reservation 5: tribal cultural topics discussed
m Grand Portage Reservation 6: makers of clothing and accessories, basketry
m Grand Portage Reservation 7: cultural topics discussed
m Grand Portage Reservation 8: slides of tribal activities
m Mole Lake Reservation 1: tribal Chairman and others discuss and demonstrate aspects of life of this tribe
m Mole Lake Reservation 2: daycare facility shows—bead work is shown
m Mole Lake 3: interview with reservation support staff
m RED CLIFF RESERVATION 1: history and culture of this Chippewa branch
m Red Cliff Reservation 2: discuss tribal education
m Red Cliff Reservation 3: personnel responsible for running the reservation—tour of the reservation
● The Modern Chippewa Indians: reservation life in Minnesota (1946)
● The Caribou Hunters: Canadian Indians survive by hunting caribou in Northern Manitoba (1951)
● Press Conference: political activists Roger Littlehorn and Carla Blakely speak out against historic oppression by white society (1970)
CHOCTAWm Chitimacha 1: park scenes and live Indian rock and roll band
m Chitimacha 2: history of this Louisiana tribe
CHULUPIm Ardmore 1: variety of Choctaw-Chickasaw dances
m Ardmore 2: discuss education of children
m Ardmore 3: continue discussion of education—chairman Buster Ned interviewed about Indian cultural traditions
m Ardmore 4: conclusion of educational discussion
m Ardmore 5: focus of school children
m Ardmore 6: discuss tribal education
m Choctaw 1: tribal dancing
m Choctaw 2: tribal sports and dancing
m Choctaw 3: discussion of tribal taxation legal case
CHUMASH● Paraguay: Julien Bryan film offers a glimpse of this small South American republic and the role of Indian populations with in it (1943)
COEUR D’ALENEm Chumash Indians: portrait of ancient Indian people who lived in coastal Southern California and left significant examples of their culture
COLORADOm Coeur D’alene 1: Cataldo Mission, Indian play drawn from tribal legend
m Coeur D’alene 2: more of Indian play based on legend
m Coeur D’alene 3: dancing, more scenes from Indian play
COLVILLE RESERVATION● Indians of the Andes: explores the Colorado Indians in the Northern Andes of Ecuador—as seen on TV series, Bold Journey (1957)
● Rugged Road to Cape Horn: adventurer Sullivan Richardson encounters Ecuadoran Indian tribe (1941)
● Rugged Road to Cape Horn Outtakes: Sullivan Richardson outtakes among Colorado Indians Sullivan Richardson outtakes (1941)
● Wheels Across the Andes: explorer Armand Denis visits Colorado Indians as well as Indians of Peru and Bolivia (1948)
COMANCHEm Colville 1: Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Tribal Council
m Colville 2: tribal leaders discuss career paths for youth
m Colville 3: more discussion of careers for tribal young people
m Colville 4: law enforcement on the reservation
m Colville 5: tribal bureaucracy discussed
m Colville 6: more discussion of tribal bureaucracy, health and education
m Colville 7: continued discussion of tribal bureaucracy
m Colville 8: still more tribal bureaucracy discussed
m Colville 9: requirements need for careers within the tribe
m Colville 10: different jobs on the reservation
m Colville 11: various occupations
m Colville 12: outdoor careers, Paskel Sherman Indian School
CREE● Parker Family Reunion: newsreel about reunion of family members descended from Cynthia Ann Parker, a white girl captured by Comanches in 1836 and raised as Indian (1954)
CREEK● The Caribou Hunters: Canadian Indians survive by hunting caribou in Northern Manitoba (1951)
● A Dog’s Life in the North Woods: reliance of Cree trapper on his dogs for hunting success and for survival (1948))
● Fur Country: Indians trapper interacts with nature and Hudson’s Bay Company in Northern Canada (1941)
CROWm Creek 1: Creek Nation Festival
m Creek 2: fashion show
m Creek : political organization of the tribe
m Creek 4: tribal political situation
m Creek 5: Creek language class
m Netche Gray 1: singer speaks and sings in native language
m Netche Gray 2: singing by elderly man
m Netche Gray 3: interview Netche Gray
ESKIMO (INUIT)● Before the White Man Came: silent feature film only starring Crow and Northern Cheyenne actors (1918)
m 1976 Crow Fair 1: daytime parade and celebration
m 1976 Crow Fair 2: dancing in the evening
GUAJIRA● Angotee: follows life of a boy in the Eastern Arctic (1954)
● Arctic Environment: naturalist photographer Herman Kitchen captures the world of the Arctic in the summer (1970s)
● Arctic Seal Hunt: hunt for seal meat. (1955)
● Canadian Photographer: Doug Wilkinson lives for 14 months with Eskimos in Canada
● Eskimos: native life north of Nome, Alaska—as seen on TV series, Bold Journey
● Eskimo Children: Eskimo of Nunivak Island (1941)
● Eskimo Arts and Crafts: craft activities of the Inuit of Baffin Island (1947)
● Eskimo Summer: essential summer activities Inuit groups that live apart from settlements in Canada and USA (1947)
● Eskimo Hunters: (Northwestern Alaska): from The World and Its People series Produced by Louis de Rochemont (1949)
● Eskimo Walrus Hunt: Eskimo hunters in kayaks search for walrus in the early 1930s
● Eskimos—Winter in Western Alaska: 1950
● Frontiers of the North (Parts 1 and 2): the Canadian Government Arctic Expedition begins to organize the Northwest Territories and encounters realities of its natives and wild animals in 1922
● Giant of the North: installment of Primitive Peoples series (1951)
● How to Build an Igloo: Eskimo shows how to construct an ice home (1949)
● Land of the Long Day: Inuit life on Baffin Island during the changing seasons (1952)
● Nanook of the North: celebrated early documentary from documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty explores the rugged life of Eskimos (1922)
● Northward to Nome: Sullivan Richardson adventure film in Alaska (1948)
● Northward to Nome Outtakes: unused footage from Sullivan Richardson’s visit to Kotsebue and Nome, Alaska in late 1940s
● North West Frontier: study of Indians, Eskimos, and whites living together and interacting in settlements in Canada’s Northwest Territories (1941)
● Ramparts of Two Worlds: hunting and daily activities of Eskimos of Little Diomede Island in Alaska (1940)
● We Lived with the Eskimos: Seattle couple learns to survive in Northern Alaska by living with Eskimos—as seen on TV series, Bold Journey
m Kotzebue 1: interviews about old customs and skills
m Kotzebue 2: more discussion of old skills, especially leather work
m Kotzebue 3: discussion of the old ways concluded
m Kotzebue 4: discuss the Historical Preservation Project and Eskimo past
m Kotzebue 5: Eskimo Olympics festivities
m Kotzebue 6: interview and more July 4 festivities
m Kotzebue 7: blanket toss and dancing at festivities
m Kotzebue 8: scenes of everyday life
GUARANI● Far Away Places: "Columbia’s Harvest of Salt" Guajira Indians of Colombia gather salt from the sea (1957)
HAIDA● Paraguay: Julien Bryan film offers a glimpse of this small South American republic and the role of Indian populations with in it (1943)
HAVASUPAI (SUPAI)● People of the Potlatch: Haida and other Canadian Pacific Coast Indians
● The Totem Pole : Haida and Kyakiyutal totem poles in British Columbia (1963)
HOHOKUM● Supai Indian: profiles isolated Supai Indians of Arizona (1946)
HOPI● Irrigation: ancient Indian irrigation patterns in the U.S. Southwest presage modern dams and water distribution for agriculture in the Arizona desert (1954)
INCA● Hopi Indian Arts and Crafts: includes male weaver singing a tribal song (1945)
● Arts and Crafts of the Southwest Indians: Pueblo Indians (1940)
● The Hopi Indian: profile of this Indian peoples
● Miracle on the Mesa: Hopi Indian culture (1950)
● Primitive Indians of the Painted Desert: Hopi life—silent film from 1920s
● Round Up In Arizona: Richard Hathcock explores the Indian lands and ruins in Arizona—as seen on TV series Bold Journey (1957)
● Villages in the Sky: Hopi Indians of Southwest―the nine pueblos of the Hopi (1952)
● Wild West: demeaning and racist soundtrack, but with outstanding Indian footage including Hopi snake dance (1932)
IROQUOIS● Heart of the Inca Empire: explores Inca history and society while visiting the ancient ruins of Cuzco and Machu Pichu (1943)
● The Highway of the Sun: expedition search for The Highway of the Sun, the 10,000 mile Inca highway system—as seen on the TV series, Bold Journey
● Land of the Incas: Overview of the history and archeology of the Inca Empire and its contemporary descendents (1945)
● Peruvian Archeology: explanation of the various Indian cultures that have populated Peru
JEMEZ● The Longhouse People: a portrait of the Iroquois Indians at mid-century (1951)
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 3: Rick Hill explains headdress construction
JIVARO● Southwestern Indian Dances: 1947—Gallup, New Mexico
• Jemez Indian Buffalo Dance
• Jemez rain dance
KAHUIA● The Head Hunters of Ecuador: anthropologist Robert Kaulp visits Ecuadorian Indians infamous as headhunters-- as seen on TV series Bold Journey (1957)
● Indians of the Andes: explores the Colorado and Jivaro Indians in the Northern Andes of Ecuador—as seen on TV series, Bold Journey (1957)
● Orinoco Adventure: adventures of Hector Acebes on the Orinoco River in South America and his encounters with the Jivaro headhunters—as seen on TV series Bold Journey (1957)
KALISPEL● Rugged Desert: film recreated the life of Kahuia Indians in the desert country of Southern California in earlier times (1961)
KIOWAm Kalispel 1: environment and business of this tribe
m Kalispel 2: native environment
KOGUI● Golden State Gourd Dance Society: multi-tribal men’s organization with roots in Kiowa Gourd Dance traditions (1973)
● Southwestern Indian Dances: 1947—Gallup, New Mexico
• Kiowa dance
m Gourd Dance Festival 1: colorful dancing and Indian crafts
m Gourd Dance Festival 2: continued dancing and drumming
m Gourd Dance Festival 3: continued dancing and drumming
m Kiowa Language 1: Johnny Toyebo offers language lesson
m Kiowa Language 2: native speakers holding a meeting
KYAKIYUTAL● Return of Ningi Waycama: Hector Acebes travels to Kogui village in Columbia—as seen on the TV series, Bold Journey
LACANDON● Fort Rupert: British Columbia tribe as a civilization in decline as assimilation has almost obliterated native culture (1951)
● The Totem Pole: Haida and Kyakiyutal totem poles in British Columbia (1963)
● Wooden Box: wood carver displays his craftsmanship in fashioning a functional box (1963)
LUMBEE● The Vanishing Mayans: Canadian journalist Don Rathlou and his mother visit the Lacandon Indians, last descendants of the Mayan Indians (1958)
LUMMIm Lumbee Interviews: leaders discuss Lumbee education and economic development
MAC’Ám LUMMI 1: fishery operations
m LUMMI 2: crafts class: leather work, weaving, knitting
m LUMMI 3: story telling
m LUMMI 4: tribal governance
MAKAH● Paraguay: Julien Bryan film offers rare a glimpse of this small South American republic and the place of Indian populations with in it (1943)
MASSASOIT● Outdoor Fish Cookery: Makah Indians from Neah Bay, Washington catch and barbeque wild salmon in a segment from a Department of the Interior film offering tips on cooking seafood outdoors (1959)
m Makah 1: reservation scenes and tribal museum
m Makah 2: reservation scenery, tribal governance and education
m Makah 3: education of children
m Makah 4: history of Makah people
m Makah 5: more history of Makah people, canoe racing
MAYAN● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
MENOMINEE●Art: Painting on Copper: Honduran artists Arturo Lopez Rodzeno is inspired by Mayan ruins in ancient Copan (1962)
● Mayan Mexico: examines the Mayan ruins and culture of Mexicans living in Yucatan (1938)
● The Vanishing Mayans: Canadian journalist Don Rathlou and his mother visit the Lacandon Indians, last descendants of the Mayan Indians (1958)
MICCOSUKIE● The Last Menominee: examines the fate of Menominee of Wisconsin who opted out of the reservation status and ceased legally to be Indians with all the benefits that status ensured (1959)
MIWOKm Miccosukie: show and discuss the home and history of this tribe in the Florida Everglades
MOHAWKm Miwok 1: troubled young man interviewed
m Miwok 2: informed man explains Indian artifacts
MUCKLESHOOT● Press Conference: political activists Roger Littlehorn and Carla Blakely speak out against historic oppression by white society (1970)
● Roger Littlehorn: raw news interview with Roger Littlehorn, political activist, artist, construction worker, and family man (1970)
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 5: Stanley Hill explains the art of bone carving
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 7: Mary Adams and her son Mike Adams, demonstrate the art of basket making—the unedited footage
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 8: Mary Adams and her son, Mike Adams, demonstrate the art of basket making—the finished film
NAMBEm Muckleshoot 1: Tribal Center and Clinic
m Muckleshoot 2: tribal educational and housing programs
m Muckleshoot 3: aerial view of city, discuss tribal governance
NAVAJOm Nambe Reservation 1 target="_blank": tour of the reservation in New Mexico
m Nambe Reservation 2: more of tour plus Bicentennial celebration on July 4
m Virginia Gutierrez, Potter: Ms. Gutierrez demonstrates her pottery-making skills
NEZ PERCE● Another to Conquer: Navajo Indians fighting medical problem of tuberculosis (1941)
● Arts and Crafts of the Southwest Indians: focus on the Navajos (1940)
● Christian Reformed Church Scenes1: outtakes and rehearsal scenes for religious film, Way with Shorty Benally
● Christian Reformed Church Scenes 2: scenes from religious films about Navajos and other tribe Christians in New Mexico and Utah
● El Navajo: Navajo Indians of New Mexico-Arizona reservation (1945)
● Indians Trapped in New Mexico Blizzard: newsreel massive snowstorm kills Navajo and Zunis in 1931
● Land of the Crimson Cliffs: portrait of the Four Corners area of the Southwest produced by adventure photographer, Sullivan Richardson (1947)
● Navajo (first half) and Navajo (second half): feature film in two parts.
● The Navajo (I): explores Navajo society and culture under challenge by modern America—first of two-part exploration focuses on a Navajo family (1958)
● The Navajo (II): explores Navajo society and culture under challenge by modern America—second of two-part series focuses on a Navajo tribal leaders headquartered in Window Rock, Arizona (1958)
● Navajo Children: (1938)
● Navajo Country: life of the nomadic Navajo and their arts (1951)
● The Navajo Indian: profile of Navajo social life and culture (1945)
● Navajo Indian Life: silent film shows the world of the reservation Navajo Indians on Northern Arizona, their work and leisure, children and adults
● Navajo Land: economic and social problems on an Indian Navajo Reservation in Window Rock, Arizona (1938)
● Navajo Night Dances: tribal religion (1957)
● Navajo Silversmith: (1959)
● The Navajo Witch [aka The Navajo Demon]: condescending commentary, but good scenes of family life and social customs
● Round Up In Arizona: Richard Hathcock explores the Indian lands and ruins in Arizona—as seen on TV series Bold Journey (1957)
● Trail to Health: U.S. Department of Interior film re health of Indians (1947)
● The Navajos Look Ahead: the tribe confronts modernity (1956)
● The Navajo Moves into the Electronic Age: electronic jobs for Navajo men and women (1965)
● The Navajo Indians: portrait of tribal social life and courtship ritual (1939)
● The Golden West: controversial look at Navajo history and modernity (1941)
● Navajo Sandpainter: silent footage of tribal ritual (1941)
● Painting with Sand: Navajo medicine man intervenes for sick child—produced by adventure photographer, Sullivan Richardson (1949)
● Painting with Sand Outtakes 1:
● Painting with Sand Outtakes 2:
● Tourist Film, 1936: home movie filmed by tourists while visiting Navajo territory in Arizona in 1936
● Monument Valley: travel to Navajo reservation in Monument Valley in Northern Arizona
NISENAN (MAIDU)● The Lord’s Prayer: Chief Shatka Bear-Step offers the sacred Christian prayer in Indian sign language
NORTHERN CHEYENNE● Buckeyes: A Food of the California Indians: demonstrates the way in which Indians processed wild buckeyes to make a healthy food (1961)
ONEIDA● Before the White Man Came: silent feature film only starring Crow and Northern Cheyenne actors (1918)
OSAGE● All Tribes American Indian Center: spotlights the All-Tribes American Indian Center (1955)
OTOE (OTO)● Maria Tallchief Dances
OYANA (CARIB)m Otoe 1: dancing and honoring of veterans of armed forces
m Otoe 2: more dancing and singing in celebration
PAIUTE● Trader of the Amazon: trader interacts with Indians he meets along the border between French Guiana and Surinam—as seen on the TV series, Bold Journey
PAPAGOm Pyramid Lake 1: discuss tribe and its reservation in Nevada
m Pyramid Lake 2: panel of elderly women recall tribal history
m Pyramid Lake 3: more tribal history recalled by panel of women
m Pyramid Lake 4: lawyer explains legal history of the people
m Pyramid Lake 5: explore Dunn Hatchery and Pyramid Lake
m Pyramid Lake 6: more about Dunn Hatchery and Pyramid Lake
PIMA● Indian Children: typical daily life of young Cochise and his sister on a Papago reservation—Baptist missionary film (1955)
POMO● An Indian Bible: Pima religion expressed in ancient rock hieroglyphs
● River People: U.S. Indian Bureau film re the Pima Indians of Arizona-California desert (1948)
POTAWATOMI● Pomo Shaman: follows a female Pomo shaman conducting a ritual healing ceremony over a man with body pains (filmed in 1953)
m Mendo Lake 1: discuss the art and culture of Pomo Indians
m Mendo Lake 2: outdoors activities, Mendo Lake Pomo Council
m Mendo Lake 3: Senior Native American Day celebration
PUEBLOm Oklahoma Potawatomi 1: art, music, dance and health
m Oklahoma Potawatomi 2: tribal history and economics
m Oklahoma Potawatomi 3: health and economic development
QECHUA● Indians Appeal to Save Land: newsreel Pueblo chiefs in San Francisco to appeal to federal authorities to oust squatters from their land (1925)
● Land of Pueblos of Northern New Mexico: explores Taos pueblo and other Indian sites (1940))
● Pueblo Boy: father takes his young son to pow wow ceremony in Gallup, New Mexico (1947)
● Pueblo Arts: Indian pottery and explanation of the designs (1952)
m Albuquerque Indian School 1: discuss future plans, then sign contract transferring School to control of All Indian Pueblo Council
m Albuquerque Indian School 2: School psychologist, School interior scenes
m Albuquerque Indian School 3: student life
m Albuquerque Indian School 4: woman relates recent history of the School
m Albuquerque Indian School 5: inside the School
m Albuquerque Indian School 6: student interviewed
QUERO (Q’ERO)● Land of the Incas: Overview of the history and archeology of the Inca Empire and its contemporary descendents (1945)
QUICHE● Vicuna Country: Eric Pavel travels to the high altitudes of Bolivian and Peru in search of this shy camel-like animal famous for its soft fur—encounters Indians and their culture—from the Bold Journey television series (1959)
QUILEUTE (QUILLAYUTE)● A Time of Risk: Episcopal Church interacts with Guatemalan Indian people, teaching Spanish to the children and assisting adults earn a living (1970s)
QUINAULT● The Quillayute Story: Indians of coastal Washington State (1950)
SAC AND FOX● Father Ocean: the Creation story of the Quinault people of coastal Washington state (1962)
SAN JUAN PUEBLO● Always Kickin’: comedy short stars Jim Thorpe in speaking role as a kicking coach for football team (1932)
● U.S. Army: TV commercial for enlistment recalls the sports triumphs of Jim Thorpe (1970s)
SEMINOLEm San Juan 1: tribal leaders discuss Tewa-English bilingual education and its importance to the survival of Indian culture
m San Juan 2: bilingual teachers discuss accomplishments of the program
m San Juan 3: educational administrators discuss bilingual education
m San Juan 4: school principal discusses bilingual education
m San Juan 5: scenes of children learning in classroom
m San Juan 6: more scenes of children learning in classroom
SENECA● Seminole Indians: life and culture of this Florida tribe (1952)
●Seminole Indians of the Everglades: profiles the lives of Seminoles living in the swamps of Southern Florida—from the Primitive Peoples series of film shorts issued by the P. Lorillard tobacco company (1949)
● Seminole Indians of the Florida Everglades: analysis of Seminole life from the “Primitive Peoples” series from P. Lorillard for its Old Gold cigarettes
●A Seminole Love Story: colorful silent film offers young love and alligator wrestling as a demonstration of Seminole manhood (1947)
● Tourist Films, 1925-1939: collection of home movies filmed by tourists while visiting Seminole settlements in South Florida in the period 1925-1939
m Florida Seminole 1: tour airport Indian Shop
m Florida Seminole 2: Seminole rodeo
m Oklahoma Seminole 1: Seminole Nation Day parade and games
m Oklahoma Seminole 2: Seminole Nation Day festivities continue
m Oklahoma Seminole 3: dancing at Seminole Nation Day festival—silent footage
m Oklahoma Seminole 4: more dancing at Seminole Nation Day fest festival— silent footage
SHAWNEEm 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 4: Indian dancers
SHOALWATER BAY (CHEHALIS) (CHINOOK) (WILLAPA HILLS)● Yvonne Chouteau: famed ballerina speaks on behalf of Indian arts in TV Public Service Announcement from the National Congress of American Indians (1970s)
SHOSHONEm The Charlie Family Reunion 1: informal gathering and discussion of family history
m The Charlie Family Reunion 2: more discussion of family ancestry
m Shoalwater Bay 1: glamour shots of Washington State tribal land
m Shoalwater Bay 2: more glamour shots of reservation land
m Shoalwater Bay 3: glamour shots, bead worker, leather craft, gardening
m Shoalwater Bay 4: more glamour shots of reservation land
m Shoalwater Bay 5: tribal history and economics
SKOKOMISH (TWANA)m Shoshone 1: all-Indian rodeo in Fallon, Nevada
m Shoshone 2: more rodeo scenes
m Shoshone 3: continued rodeo scenes
m Shoshone 4: more rodeo
m Shoshone 5: dancing
m Shoshone 6: dancing
m Shoshone 7: dancing
m Shoshone 8: discuss the all-Indian rodeo in Fallon
m Shoshone 9: interview Miss Indian Nevada, Noreen Smodley
m Shoshone 10: drumming and dancing
SIOUXm Skokomish Fish Processing: inside a tribal industry in Washington state
m Skokomish Tribal Center: tribal artifacts and economics
SUQUAMISH● Fallen Eagle: culture and heritage of the past and hope for the future (1952)
● Indians of the Plains—Sun Dance Ceremony: shows Native American lifestyles and culture—focus on Blackfeet family—show construction of a tipi (no op) (Academy 1954)
● Injun Talk: explains sign language among Plains Indians (1946)
● Meet the Sioux Indians: probes this plains Indian tribe (1949)
m Lower Sioux 1: discuss history and governance of Lower Sioux people
m Lower Sioux 2: discuss history and culture of Lower Sioux people
m Lower Sioux 3: pottery maker and other expressions of tribal culture
m Lower Sioux 4: artists and their handiwork
m Lower Sioux 5: Iola Columbus, female President of Lower Sioux
TAOSm Chief Seattle Dedication 1: dedicating monument to historic chieftain
m Chief Seattle Dedication 2: more scenes of dedication ceremony
TARAHUMARA● The Pueblo Heritage: Zuni, Acoma, and Taos Pueblos
● Tourist Film, 1940: home movie filmed by tourists while visiting the picturesque pueblo in Taos, New Mexico in 1940
TARASCAN (TARASCO)● Doctors to the Stone Age: U.S. doctors help isolated Indians of Mexico
● The Pagans: explorer encounters indigenous people of Copper Canyon in Mexico
TESUQUE● Mexico Builds a Democracy: state policy to educate Tarascan Indians and integrate them into Mexican mainstream (1940)
● Trail to Michoacán: American couple explores the state of Indian culture in Michoacán, Mexico
TLINGIT● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
TSIMSHIANw Nathan Jackson: interview in 1976 with world’s most famous totem carver
TUSCARORA● People of the Potlatch: Haida and Tsimshian Indians of the Pacific coast of Canada (1936)
WAMPANAGOm 1976 Festival Of American Folklore 1: the sport of lacrosse is explained and demonstrated
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklore 2: the Sky family explains the lacrosse stick, how it is made and how it is used
m 1976 Festival Of American Folklife 5: the art of stone carving is demonstrated by Duffy Wilson
WINNEBAGO● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
WINTUN BAND (YOCHA DEHE)● All Tribes American Indian Center: spotlights the All-Tribes American Indian Center (1955)
XAVANTEm Wintun Nation 1: family histories/deer skinning
m Wintun Nation 2: tribal members speak
YAKIMA● Before the Harvest: enthusiastic missionaries trek through Brazilian jungle to convert Xavante Indians to Christianity (1950s)
YAQUI● Yakima Indian Activities: professionally-shot "home movie" is compilation of images on the life of the Yakima Indians (1939)
m Yakima 1: political-religious leader discusses his personal history
m Yakima 2: tribal leader interviewed in Yakima language
m Yakima 3: another man interviewed in Indian language
m Yakima 4: man relates his personal history in English and Indian
m Yakima 5: man speaks of his past and importance of tribal language
m Yakima 6: woman speaks in native language
m Yakima Education 1: discuss grade school education
m Yakima Education 2: more discussion of grade school
m Yakima Education 3: discuss grade school and Head Start program
m Yakima Education 4: school principals interviewed
m Yakima Education 5: principal continues his interview
m Yakima Education 6: school staff members discuss education
m Yakima Education 7: teaching Yakima language in grade school
m Yakima Education 8: more about teaching Yakima language
m Yakima Education 9: Yakima language program
m Yakima Education 10: Yakima college counselor critiques the state of higher education in the Indian world
m Yakima Education 11: Camp Chapparal and summer education
m Yakima Education 12: children in school learning Yakima culture and language
YOKUTS● Real Americans: appreciation of American Indians with several tribes highlighted (1934)
ZAPOTEC● Indians of California ( Part 1): reenactment of home life with scenes of women doing domestic work, men in sweat lodge and making tule boat (1955)
● Indians of California (Part 2): reenactment of agricultural Indian lifestyles (1955)
ZUNI● Zapotecan Pottery: re Zapotec Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico and their pottery making skills
MISCELLANEOUS AND MULTIPLE TRIBES● Arts and Crafts of the Southwest Indians: Pueblo Indians (1940)
● Indians Trapped in New Mexico Blizzard: newsreel massive snowstorm kills Navajo and Zunis in 1931
● The Pueblo Heritage: Zuni, Acoma, and Taos Pueblos
● 19th Inter-Tribal Ceremonial: anonymous home movie captures the colorfulness of the parade down the main street of Gallup, New Mexico in 1940
● All Tribes American Indian Center: spotlights the All-Tribes American Indian Center (1955)
● Archaic Indian Carvings: raw footage of ancient Indian petroglyphs in deserts of Southern California (1974)
● Buffalo Lore: importance of the buffalo to the American Indians—includes rare appearance of a white buffalo (1947)
● Ceremonial Days: Indian culture as displayed at Gallup, New Mexico during annual pow wow
● Ceremonial Pipes: looks at old tobacco pipes of the local Indians—then dramatizes story from tribal myths (1955)
● 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 (1962)
● Canyon Conquest: impact upon landscape and native peoples of Glen Canyon Dam construction on the Colorado River in 1958
●Down Where The Earth Begins: colorful profile of Ecuador at mid-century and the place of its indigenous people in national life 1943
● 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 (1961)
● 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 (1961)
● Fiestas of the Hill : cultural celebrations of Mexican villagers combine Aztec, Spanish, and Indian residuals (1942)
● 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 (1951)
●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 (circa 1939)
● How to Make Fry Bread: Indian cook demonstrates the technique (1973)
● Indian History: series of Public Service Announcements from the National Congress of American Indians in praise of Indian history and culture
● Indian Life: educational film envisions Indian society before the arrival of the Europeans (1930s)
● Indian Pow Wow: gathering of Southwestern Indian tribes for annual dance festival in Flagstaff, Arizona (1952)
● Indian Workers: series of TV Public Service Announcements encouraging the employment of Indian workers—from the National Congress of American Indians (1970s)
● Klee Wyck: Emily Carr, a Canadian painter of the Indian culture of coastal British Columbia—1946
● Illu Tica: filming movie w/ Peruvian beauty Pilar Pilet as Inca goddess of creation in Peruvian Amazon jungle
● Indians of the Plains-- Life in the Past: traditional tribal lifestyles
● Indian Hunters: native American Indians traveling on canoe through scenic wilderness in Canada (1949)
● Learning about the Past: archeologists from University of Indiana explore Indian remains (1951)
● The Loon's Necklace: folk tale of British Columbia Indians told with people in authentic masks (1949)
● Making Primitive Stone Tools: teacher shows how historic Canadian Indians fashioned tools from available stones (1941)
● Many Trails Indian Club of Los Angeles Pow Wow
● O Coronado No!: avantguard filmmaker Craig Baldwin offers a critical interpretation of the Spanish conquest of the native peoples of the Southwestern United States (1992)
● The People Who Vanished: archeological expedition by UCLA students and professors to Mexico ruins—as seen of TV series, True Adventure (1960)
● Plains Indian Girl: Mary Lou lives on a reservation along the Missouri River (1953)
● Portage: Indian trapper and his life near Hudson’s Bay, Canada (1941)
● Portage: combines two short film—How Indians Build Canoes plus Traders and Trappers—into a single viewing experience
● Red Men’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 (1958)
● Return of the Buffalo: celebrates the return of bison populations in Canada and the United States (1938)
● Rhythms-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 (circa 1963)
● Southwestern Indian Dances: 1947—Gallup, New Mexico
• Zuni women parade balancing pots on their heads
• Kiowa dance
• Jemez Indian Buffalo Dance
• Apache Crown Dance (aka Devil Dance)
• Eagle Dance (performed by Tony White Cloud)
• Jemez rain dance
• hoop dance (performed by Tony White Cloud)
• war dance
● Timber and Totem Poles: Native American totem poles in Alaska (1950)
● Trappers and Traders: Indian trapper and his life (1946)
●Warbonnet Congress: Indian finery and games at National Indian Congress in Pendleton, Oregon—from the Western Sketchbook film series and Union Pacific Railroad (1958)
● Wheels Across the Andes: explorer Armand Denis visits Colorado Indians as well as Indians of Peru and Bolivia (1948)
● Wild West: demeaning and racist soundtrack, but with outstanding Indian footage ncluding Hopi snake dance (1932)
● Wooden Faces of Totonicapan: the art of making wooden masks in Totonicapan, Guatemala
m Andarko, Oklahoma 1: American Indian Exposition singing and dancing
m Andarko, Oklahoma 2: American Indian Exposition dancing
m Andarko, Oklahoma 3: American Indian Exposition dancing, horse racing, handicrafts
m 1976 Convention Of The National Indian Education Association NEIA 1: speeches by Senator Joseph Montoya and NIEA President Demmert
m NEIA 2: discuss health care and educational issues
m NEIA 3: education official questioned, educator speaks
m NEIA 4: interview Indian educators
m NEIA 5: more interviews with Indian educators
m NEIA 6: professor lectures on disparagement of Indians in textbooks
m NEIA 7: funding Indian educational projects
m NEIA 8: cultural education and bi-lingual issues
m NEIA 9: flutist and singer entertain convention
m NEIA 10: Indian comedian and rock band XIT perform
m NEIA 11: interview official from the National Endowment for the Arts
m NEIA 12: NEIA special meeting regarding Title IV funding for Indian education
m NEIA 13: questions and answers regarding Title IV and Indian education
m One With The Earth: exhibition of arts and crafts of Southwest tribes
m Voices From The Land 1: TV program discussing artist Jerome Tiger
m Voices From The Land 2: TV program discussing Indian art and culture
m Voices From The Land 3: TV program discussing Indian doctors and Indian music