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"In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is aslo home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits contantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
2) Brother Bear
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English
Description
Kenai, a young Native American boy who wants to be a man, sets out to take revenge after his older brother is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. When Kenai finds himself magically transformed into the creature he hates most, a bear, he must literally walk in another's footsteps while learning some life lessons. In his quest to return to human form, he is befriended by a talkative bear cub, aided by encounters with two dumb Canadian moose...
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English
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On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 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 of the cupboard is in danger of being revealed.
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English
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The tale of two former Texas Rangers who leave the South Texas town of Lonesome Dove on an epic 2500-mile cattle drive to the lush ranch country of Montana. From the re-created towns to the vast plains to the expansive cattle drive and heart-stopping stampede, it is an inspiring and enlighting experience, certain to change your views of our American heritage.
6) Broken arrow
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English
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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.
7) Pocahontas
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English
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In 1607, a group of British adventurers, including John Smith, led by the greedy Virginia Company governor Ratcliffe, set sail for the New World, seeking gold and other treasures. In Virginia, Pocahontas, Chief Powhatan's daughter, ponders her life as she is faced with marriage to the stern warrior, Kocoum. The British establish the settlement of Jamestown, Virginia and dig up the countryside for gold. Smith meets Pocahontas and they overcome their...
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (181 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared. When the encroaching U.S. Army threatens to overrun the Sioux, he is forced to make a difficult choice.
Series
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 154 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Beloved Disney heroine Pocahontas sparkles with all the 'Color of the wind' in two epic adventures...[which] tell the unforgettable story of how one courageous girl bridged the gap between two cultures--and wound up changing history. Fun and excitement are 'Just around the corner' as free-spirited Pocahontas and her friends Flit and Meeko find adventure at home and abroad in these sweeping stories from America's earliest days..."--Container.
10) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
11) Ceremony
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[1977]
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Leslie Marmon Silko's sublime Ceremony is almost universally considered one of the finest novels ever written by an American Indian. It is the poetic, dreamlike tale of Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna Pueblo and veteran of World War II. Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who...
12) Shadowheart
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (114 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"As a boy, he saw his preacher father murdered. As a soldier, he witnessed the horrors of the Civil War. Now bounty hunter James Conners has returned to the town of Legend, New Mexico to capture the psychotic land baron who destroyed his childhood and marry the beautiful girl he left behind. But when Conners is ambushed and left for dead, he discovers a Native American world where justice has no name and vengeance rides in the shadows."--Container....
13) Dreamkeeper
Publisher
Hallmark Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A Lakota storyteller and his grandson, a troubled 17-year-old boy, embark on a cross-country journey toward self-discovery. The grandson agrees to take his grandfather from Pine Ridge Reservation in S.D. to a powwow in Santa Fe in order to escape from some trouble with the local gang. Interwoven with the journey of the grandfather and grandson are retellings of Native American legends .
Author
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
xiii, 337 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and illiterate youth finds trouble at every turn. Then he's recruited by Army irregulars, lured by the promise of spoils and bound for Mexico. Churning a dusty path...
15) Barking water
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 78 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A uniquely delicate and moving road movie, Barking water uses the ruggedly beautiful backdrop of rural Oklahoma to tell the story of a proud Native American attempting to reconnect with his estranged family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 99 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey...
17) Pathfinder
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The heroic story of a young Norse man raised by Native American Indians who wages a personal war against the Vikings that barbarically raided his tribe.
Publisher
Prospector Films
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (8 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A short film set in a dystopian future where Natives undergo gruesome surgery to fit into the dominant white culture. Inspired by Pablo Neruda's poem "Walking Around."
20) The burrowers
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the Dakota Territories, 1879, a brave rescue party sets out to find a family of settlers who they believe were abducted by Indians. However, the group finds out that their prey is far more terrifying that anything human, and their prospects are far more terrible than death.
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