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Celebrate Native American Heritage Month with these recommended titles by, for and about Native Americans.
All of these library materials are owned by the Metropolitan Library System. Log on to CyberMars with your library card to reserve any titles that interest you, or ask a librarian for assistance.
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American Indian Homelands: Matters of Truth, Honor and Dignity-Immemorial
Vanbar Productions (Indian Land Tenure Foundation, c2005)
Shelf Number: 333.2/AM5121a/VIDEO/DISC
Award-winning filmmaker Barry ZeVan, host Sam Donaldson, and senators John McCain and Tom Daschle, discuss efforts to redress more than a century's worth of political undermining of Indian land ownership and sovereignty, going back to the 1887 General Allotment Act. The national fight to recover lost lands is being led by the Indian Tenure Land Foundation. |
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(HBO Films, c 2007)
Shelf Number: 791.45/B975b/VIDEO/DISC
Winner of 6 Emmys including Best Picture and Best Cinematography. Based on the seminal book by Dee Alexander Brown. The film opens with the massacre of Custer and his troops at Little Big Horn in 1876 and culminates with the slaughter of Native Americans at Wounded Knee almost 15 years later. |
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Incident at Oglala: the Leonard Peltier Story
(Miramax Films /Artisan Home Entertainment, c2004)
Shelf Number: 364.1523/IN372i/VIDEO/DISC
“100% fresh” according to www.RottenTomatoes.com! Robert Redford produced and narrated this documentary that goes beyond the examination of Peltier’s guilt or innocence in the murder of two FBI agents at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in 1975. Although Peltier is serving two life terms at Leavenworth for the crime, the trial was flawed. Movie reviewer Roger Ebert calls Peltier himself “one of the film's most convincing subjects. . . as he remembers the "war zone" mentality on the reservation after Wounded Knee.” |
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The Story of Will Rogers
(NBC News/Shanachie Entertainment, c2003)
Shelf Number: 791.092/R731s/VIDEO/DISC
Cherokee, America’s favorite humorist, and Oklahoma’s favorite son, Will Rogers is captured on film from newsreels, motion pictures, and his family's home movies. A warm human portrait of the cowboy philosopher. |
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