How Coyote Stole Fire by Daniel Semen

Another form of storetelling for the next generations to come. Very creative and i love the soundtrack.

Raven Tales: Bald Eagle

This is great for this new generation and all to come- the seventh generation from this one. I know this is a skill I would like to learn in film school. Enjoy indigenized storytelling!
You could go to www.radiobirdstreet.org

Rez Runner

Stop Violence Against Indigenous Women

this is something that touches me deeply and personally. The statistics mentioned in this video are horrendous. I know lots of women who have to deal with violence and one who was killed. Something has to be done about this and if you're reading this be aware that April is Sexual Assault Awareness month.

"indian raid in montana"

"decided to mess with some people at a bar by wearin ski masks and wearin arrows actin like indians...
Category: Entertainment
Tags: crazy entertaing" I don't know if these "kids" were actual Natives or ignorant Caucasians acting like fools. What messages are they portraying when they act out stereotypical media stunts of what they thought to be "Indian."

Club Native

I really like the animation used in this very short clip (:58 secs) demonstrating amount of Indian blood. The explosion of interviews and their personal experiences with their own blood amount. I thought it was very effective.

March Point trailer

I would love to meet the ones who made this documentary happen. The young men in this film seemed to show sincereity and honesty. They just needed someone or something to ignite the passion for something bigger than themselves and it was whole-heartedly seen through the lens. Thank you to the person with the torch.

Disney's Peter Pan - What Makes The Red Man Red ?

What the heck? I'm considered, "red" and my redness isn't represented.

RASH

I'm interested in graffiti art and somehow learning more about the culture. I know graffiti isn't all bad it just has a bad reputation. I took a graffiti workshop once and was very interested in how to make my own work some day. Well, I think that day has come. I just purchased my first set of graffiti caps and I'm also going to purchase how to books. I can say I'm a great artist and I'm lucky to have a son who is also a magnificant artist so I would like to open and explore the culture with my son. He loves drawing with markers. Maybe...just maybe my son will be good at graffiti too. I just hope that he doesn't get any ideas about tagging our walls at home...

revolutionizing reservations with the Savage Family

I'm very interested in other Natives going back out to Native communities and bringing something that can help. They're a rap/hip hop group and this genre reaches alot of Native youth and if the message is right than I think it will help. To know that there is someone out there doing something to bring up others is right on in my book. I hope I can do something with video productions. Keep on trekking!!!

'Native Nations' Documentary on ABC Television

ABC?! Wow.

Bastard Fairies Music Videos

Whatever



Guns and Dolls



The Greatest Love Song



We're All Going to Hell



The Venomous Tale



Apple Pie



Habitual Inmates



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Everyone Has A Secret

Rains in the Mountains trailer

I may check this out and maybe use it in SASS film screening day.

Tragedy

This video was made by a young guy who killed 10 high school kids at Red Lake High School. He also killed his grandfather and his grandfathers partner. Below is a documentary that brought this to light for me.

McCain

McCain's Calls Native American Culture Immature



McCain Questions Native American Sovereignty

Expiration Date the movie

This is just the trailer but I just wanted to add it to this blog so that others will know about it. So that when you get a chance to see it...see it. Its a very nonconventional movie about a young native guy who is destined to die by a milk truck just as his forefathers have. So he gets ready for the day of his 25th? birthday.

Osama Likes Frybread

This short film is about a lot of different subjects rolled up into one: Osama Bin Laden, Navajo reservation, environmental degradation, poverty, bureacracy, and culture. I think its pretty hilarous.

another music video by War Party

The video has the best and worst of two worlds. It says one thing which can be great yet its inter-mixed with something from something over powering almost trying to "bring a new method" that says, "we're still here" and "we can too." The message of what people want to see and what they are trying to break from but have no control of. "This right here!"

Representation or lack of...

This video reminds me of my little brother, Cyrus, who was shot while he was drunk by a distressed young guy. This video says a lot and represents the need of representation. A kinda of call out of dis-order using an overtone of unity. I'l like to meet these guys and ask them a few questions.

This fill neat in that they use graffiti. I took a work shop in Pawnee on graffiti and learned that its a form of communication and can be positive. I think a lot of people including me have stereotypes. There's a message for sure and its a form of art. The words they use is opposite from the one above.



This lead me to this video. It's a cry of distress. I kinda know what its like to grow up on the rez but more importantly a border town. The feeling of having to be "reserved" meaning extremity in a bi-polar mindset, black or white, there's almost no middle ground.

Modern Warriors

I had the pleasure of meeting the rapper, QUESE IMC, at work in Pawnee, OK last summer. He's part of an organization called, NVisionIt and they tour different reservations presenting positive alternative outlets for Native youth. There's a huge demand for this style of help because native youth are "falling between the cracks" and being left behind. There is a high rate of suicide, alcoholism, among just a few that are devastating different native communities as a result of colonization. Some may say this is old news or that its surreal but its in your face. As a native and as someone who went through the today's war that's still going on, I admire the "warriors" of today who can go back out to the "trenches" and help the wounded. We call them Modern Warriors, envision (Nvision) that!

Here is their promo video.



I was in this documentary. See if you can find me.