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• Missing From Fire Trail Road

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  A riveting documentary detailing the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. Her story exposes how Indigenous women continue to go missing in the USA, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on reservations.

• Little Bird

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  In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.

• Being Thunder

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  Sherente, a Two Spirit Genderqueer teenager from Rhode Island's Narragansett tribe performs traditional dance in competitions at annual pow wows in New England. There is no formal rule which prohibits Two Spirit Genderqueer people from performing in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Unknown Country

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  On the news of her grandmother's passing, Tana (Lily Gladstone) packed the car and left Minneapolis on a sojourn down to the Texas-Mexico border, looking to reconnect with her Oglala Lakota relatives as well as her roots, finding closure, and making…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Rumble

  the Indians Who Rocked the World

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  This revelatory documentary brings to light the profound and overlooked influence of Indigenous people on popular music in North America. Focusing on music icons like Link Wray, Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Taboo (The Black Eyed Peas), Charley…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Utama

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  In the arid Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living a tranquil life for years. While he takes their small herd of llamas out to graze, she keeps house and walks for miles with the other local women to fetch precious water. When…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bones of Crows

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  Told through the eyes of Cree Matriarch Aline Spears as she survives a childhood in Canada's residential school system to continue her family's generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• For Walter and Josiah

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  The Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana is shaken to its core by a teen suicide epidemic that claims 22 Native lives in a single year including two high school basketball team members. 'For Walter And Josiah' follows the team during their season…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Wildhood

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  A rebellious two-spirit teenager runs away from home to find his birth mother and reclaim his Mi'kmaw heritage.

• Beans

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  In 1990, two Mohawk communities enter into a 78-day armed standoff with government forces to protect a burial ground from developers.

• Red Snow

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  Tells the story of Dylan, a First Nations soldier from Canada who is caught in an ambush in Afghanistan. He is interrogated by a Taliban Commander until he makes his daring escape. Now he must run for his life from his captors across treacherous…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Inhabitants

  Indigenous Perspectives on Restoring Our World

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  Follows five Native American communities as they restore their traditional land management practices in the face of a changing climate. For millennia Native Americans successfully stewarded and shaped their landscapes, but centuries of colonization…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kuessipan

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  Two childhood friends from the same Quebec Innu community begin to realize that they face very different futures.

• Blood Quantum

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  The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.

• The Grizzlies

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  In this inspiring true story, a group of Inuit students in a small, struggling Arctic community is changed forever through the transformative power of sport.

• Indian Horse

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  An adaptation of Richard Wagamese's award winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada's Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous people.

• Angry Inuk

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  An Inuk filmmaker takes a close look at the central role of seal hunting in the lives of the Inuit, the importance of the revenue they earn from sales of seal skins, and the negative impact that international campaigns against the seal hunt have had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• We Were Children

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  As young children, Lyna and Glen were taken from their homes and placed in church-run boarding schools. The trauma of this experience was made worse by years of untold physical, sexual and emotional abuse, the effects of which persist in their adult…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Atanarjuat, the fast runner

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  A retelling of an Inuit legend of love, jealousy, murder and revenge in the Igoolik brothers Atanarjuat and Amaqjuaq.

• The Art of Being Métis

  Through the Teachings of the Canoe

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  This documentary film follows Mahigan through all the facets of creating a traditional birch bark canoe. Much more than a how-to film, the viewer will be taken on a spiritual journey that contemplates the very close relationship the people of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation