DVD
Our fires still burn : the Native American experience : a documentary
Publication Information
[Michigan] : Audrey Geyer/Visions, c2013.
Physical Description
1 videodisc (57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
This one-hour documentary DVD invites viewers into the lives of contemporary Native American role models living in the U.S. Midwest. It dispels the myth that American Indians have disappeared from the American horizon, and reveals how they continue to persist, heal from the past, confront the challenges of today, keep their culture alive, and make great contributions to society.
Notes
Title from container.
Contents
- Introduction
- Living in two worlds
- Betting on the future
- Kill the Indian, save the child
- Walking the red road
- Culture as prevention
- Calling on the ancestors
- Keepers of the sacred fire
- Lighting the sacred fire
- The purifying lodge
- Telling our story
- Hollowing out your bones
- Pow wow for Mother Earth
- The medicine wheel.