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Films
6 Films
Keywords
“Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples”
x
Country of production
“United States”
x
films with a digital version
2
short films
2
Region
Australia
3
Central America
1
North America
1
South America
1
Country
Australia
3
Canada
1
Mexico
1
Venezuela
1
Keywords
Animals
1
Archival material / Museum displays
1
Dance / Theatre / Performance
1
Death
1
Education / Knowledge transmission
1
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
6
Informant-researcher relationship
1
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
1
Material Culture
1
Political Activists
1
Ritual
2
Social Change
1
Directors
Glass, Aaron
1
Lane, Bruce Pacho
1
MacDougall, David
2
MacDougall, Judith
3
Shalygin, Cliff Orloff and Olga
1
Series
not set
6
Country of production
Australia
3
Canada
1
Mexico
1
United States
6
x
Year of production
1980
1
1983
1
1984
1
2000
1
2004
1
2012
1
Film list
Collum Calling Canberra
1983
59
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
An account of Aboriginal people steering their way through the often frustrating processes of official decision-making, as it is seen from their viewpoint far away from Canberra. Gordon Smith, head
Australia
Law and Legislation / Bureaucracy
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Democracía Indígena
2000
39
‘
Directed by
Bruce Pacho Lane
.
This film examines the indigenous rights revolution sweeping Mexico through the municipal elections in Huehuetla, Puebla. In 1989, the Huehuetla Totonacs formed the Organización Independiente
Central America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Political Activists
The House-Opening
1980
45
‘
Directed by
Judith MacDougall
.
When Geraldine Kawanka’s husband died, she and her children left their house at Aurukun on Cape York Peninsula. In earlier times a bark house would have been burnt, but today a ‘house-opening’
Australia
Ritual
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Death
In Search of the Hamat’sa: A Tale of Headhunting
2004
33
‘
Directed by
Aaron Glass
.
The Hamat’sa (or “Cannibal Dance”) is the most important—and highly represented ceremony of the Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) people of British Columbia. This film traces the history of
North America
Archival material / Museum displays
Dance / Theatre / Performance
Ritual
Informant-researcher relationship
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Stockman’s Strategy
1984
52
‘
Directed by
David MacDougall
Judith MacDougall
.
A film which explores the philosophy of teaching and learning of Sunny Bancroft, manager of an Aboriginal-run cattle station in northern New South Wales. It also tells the story of Shane Gordon, a
Australia
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Animals
Education / Knowledge transmission
Yanomami: From Machetes to Mobile Phones
2012
58
‘
Directed by
Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin
.
The Yanomami Indians are one of the last large relatively unacculturated indigenous groups remaining in the world. In November 2000 filmmakers Orloff and Shalygin documented the lives of a small
South America
Indigenous peoples / First Nations peoples
Material Culture
Social Change