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A study of the Machiguenga Indians of Peru who believe all rainforest plants and animals evolve from their ancestors and therefore possess human souls and spirits.
An autobiographical study of 25 years of the life of Pete Standing Alone, a Blood Indian, from his early days as an oil-rig roughneck, rodeo rider and cowboy, to the present as an Indian concerned with...
A portrait of two Innu families in eastern Canada, caught between the shamanistic hunting life of their nomadic ancestors and the nightmare world of the modern villages where the government is trying to...
Among the Canela Indians of north-east Brazil, log races for men and women are an almost daily sporting activity, strongly connected with their mythology and ritual life. Introduces Canela culture and then...
Documents the lives of the Aymara Indians, who live on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Bolivia, who live at subsistence level in a lush landscape and have revived some of their ancestral farming techniques.
Dreams, myths and rituals are an essential part of life for the Mehinacu, one of the several Indian groups living in the Xingu Reserve in central Brazil. But since the white man discovered them nearly 50...
The native film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s account of the confrontation between the Mohawk Indians and the police and Canadian army in the summer and autumn of 1990, placing it in the larger context of the...
This film was made at the invitation of the Sirionó Indians living in Ibiato, a small village with 500 inhabitants in the rainforest of northern Bolivia. The Sirionó call themselves ‘Mbía’ (people)....
A portrayal of the Nunak, Colombian rain forest nomads, and their relations with the settlers, some of whom have adoped orphaned Nukak children.
Examines the bloody confrontation that erupted in Canada in 1991, following Quebec government plans to confiscate Mohawk territory.
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