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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.

John Borrows offers a bracing vision of what law really is, where it finds its roots and authority, and how aboriginal law fits into the Canadian legal fabric.

A dramatization of the biography of Ishi, a lone survivor of California’s Yahi tribe of Native-Americans. The story begins with Ishi’s capture by ranchers, his early encounters with the academics who wish to study him, and the slow unveiling of his past to Dr. Alfred Kroeber, an anthropologist who is intent on knowing all of Ishi’s secrets.

Thirty miles from New York City, tucked away in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey, lives a group of indigenous people shrouded in mystery and discrimination, fighting for acceptance as Native Americans: the Ramapough Lenape Indians. American Native exposes this group’s fight for respect as Native Americans, examining their efforts to gain recognition from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the private interests that may have colluded behind the scenes to prevent them from doing so. Through expert interviews and unbridled access to the community, the film provides an in-depth look at the group’s complex past, volatile present and endangered future.– 片盒

Sixteen-year-old Native American ‘city girl’ Lia, is sent to spend the summer with her grandmother in a small community in Canada’s breathtaking Northwest Territories. Desperate to return home she steals a boat and becomes lost in the vast wilderness where she is discovered by Alfred, a Gwich’in hunter. Reluctantly taking her under his wing, their unexpected friendship develops and both will be tested when Alfred is severely wounded in a bear attack and Lia fights to save their lives.