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A series examining the history of the Native Americans as white Americans moved west in the mid-19th century. The programmes combine archival phogtographs, period paintings and early motion picture footage...
Alejandro Mamani, an elderly Aymara Indian, is the subject of this ethnographic study of mental illness and the approach of death.
In Northern Bolivia, where the heterogeneous population is socially and economically stratified, the inequalities of a sharp class division between the Spanish-speaking mestizos and the subordinate Aymara...
Scientists are collecting blood samples from the Ahuaco and Asario Indians who live in the remote rain forests of northeern Columbia in order to provide DNA for the Human Genome Biodiversity Project. The aim...
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...
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