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Native American healing in the 21st century — Don’t get sick after June — Romance of a vanishing race — Bonus: Walela live in concert.

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples’ struggle over the rights to their land.

"Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a compelling and complex portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother (John Reddy) and his younger sister (Jashaun St .John), who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home. The film sensitively infiltrates isolated Indian Country to offer a rare, modern gaze keenly felt through the eyes of its magnetic, non-professional lead actors, providing a universally resonant tale"–Container.

A young boy disappears from the edge of the Brazilian rainforest. Years later his father finds him living with an Amazon tribe, but he doesn’t want to leave, and ends up teaching his father about true civilization.

Fireside stories told in the Native American tradition by an acclaimed storyteller and linguist and accompanied by a flutist. A talented sketch artist creates drawings as the stories unfold.

Explores the history of the meaning of Maori tattoos, not only as an art form but as a way of defining oneself in a cultural context.

The year is 1984, and on the rural east coast of New Zealand Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ is changing kids’ lives. ‘Boy’ is a dreamer who lives with his brother Rocky and his Nan. When Boy’s father, Alamein, returns home after seven years away, Boy is forced to confront the man he thought he remembered, find his own potential, and learn to get along without the hero he had been looking for.

The DVD traces the early history of Native Americans and continues through the twentieth century, culminating with the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in 2004.

Explores the ancient art of tattooing in places as diverse as New Zealand, Japan, Hawaii, New York, and Los Angeles, and features footage and expert interviews.