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In 1935, an 8-year-old orphaned boy is sent to live in the Tennessee mountains with his grandparents. He doesn't yet know that he is half Cherokee, on his grandmother's side. As he learns about life and the Cherokee "way" from his grandparents, Little Tree's sensitivity to nature and to others grows. The film gains emotional power when Little Tree becomes close to an older Cherokee who tells him about the Trail of Tears. When the government places Little Tree in an Indian school, where he is abused physically and psychologically, the tough issue of the forced assimilation of Native Americans isn't glossed over. This beautifully photographed family film with excellent performances and a gripping story, make this well worth watching with children ages 8 and up. Stars Graham Greene, Tantoo Cardinal, James Cromwell and Joseph Ashton as Little Tree. “Two thumbs up, way up” - Siskel & Ebert |
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"Music From a Painted Cave"
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DVD - 110 minutes The DVD has 30 additional bonus minutes
Retail Price: $25.00
Price:
$22.00
Item #MSP370062X
Also available in VHS (Click here) |
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Music From a Painted Cave is an evolutionary vision of one man, from birth’s breath through the metamorphosis of time. Stunning native clothing, dramatic hit songs, and awesome choreography bridge traditional Native American with riveting contemporary themes and perspectives in this global celebration of indigenous people. Includes bonus footage and interviews |
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Critically acclaimed and a distinguished winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this film is based on a couple of short stories by award winning
author Sherman Alexie. In the film, Victor and Thomas have lived their entire young lives in the same tiny town and couldn't have less in common.
Then when Victor is urgently called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the
money to pay for his trip. There's just one condition..... Victor has
to take Thomas along for the ride. It's a comic treat as these two leave home
on what will become an unforgettable adventure of friendship and discovery.
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A color video that focuses on the preservation of American Indian customs, traditional dress, and dance. It follows two young boys on the powwow circuit, re-creating ceremonies established centuries before them. Producers mix contemporary music and infrared photography with interesting results that may inspire the reluctant young to reconsider dancing. "Also see companion coloring book." |
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Many people have wanted
this highly acclaimed movie and it's finally available
again!
For the Northern
Cheyenne tribe of Lame Deer, Montana, the American Dream has
taken a grim detour. Here, Buddy Red Bow (A Martinez) is a
committed activist battling a suspicious land-grab. Philbert
Bono (Gary Farmer, in a performance Roger Ebert calls “one
of the most wholly convincing I’ve seen”) is a serene
spiritual warrior guided by sacred visions. But when Buddy’s
estranged sister is framed and jailed in New Mexico, the two
men take Philbert’s rust-wrecked ’64 Buick ‘war pony’ on a
road trip that makes some very unexpected stops along the
way.
Jonathan Wacks (Producer of REPO MAN) directs and Graham Greene (DANCES WITH WOLVES), Wes Studi (THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS, HEAT) and Amanda Wyss star in this acclaimed comedy/drama about Native Americans understanding the past, fighting for their future and discovering a few surprising truths along the POWWOW HIGHWAY. "Powwow Highway is fashioned from the stuff of legends...it radiates good vibes." - J. Hoberman, The Village Voice "Unforgettable! - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times |
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"If you don't trust people,
then they don't trust you." Camilla tells Jesse Threebears, "and
you just walk around feeling all lonely." Even though Jesse knows
she is right, he struggles with trusting others, having grown up
in the city, where he was bounced from one foster home to
another. Now the troubled teenager has been placed with his
Grandfather Joe on the reservation, where officials hope he will
get in touch with his traditions. But it's been a rough ride for
Jesse - even before he started learning to ride on a wild horse.
And it gets rougher as rival Paul sees to it that Jesse learns the
hard truth about his mother's death. As Jesse reconnects with his
cultural roots, he discovers that he and Paul have more in common
than either wants to admit, and that he must learn to forgive Paul
and his own grandfather.
Featuring: Herbie Barnes,
Gordon Tootoosis, Michelle St. John, Tantoo Cardinal, Tom Jackson,
Graham Greene and Adam Beach
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Navajo sleuths Joe Leaphorn, played by Wes Studi (The Last of the Mohicans, Dances with Wolves), and Jim Chee, played by Adam Beach (Windtalkers, Smoke Signals), are hot on the trail of Butch Cassidy in the latest MYSTERY! adaptation of the best selling novels by Tony Hillerman. A drunken Navajo shaman is holding the murder weapon near the scene of a cop killing, but Chee has a hunch he's innocent. Their legwork turns up a CIA spook, a giant coded message and a century-old bank heist proving that Butch Cassidy didn't die like they say in the movies. |
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Everything begins with the drum. it is the heartbeat of our people. Different drums exist for different purposes.... for healing, for ceremony. One of the most recognizable elements of Native expression is the Pow-wow. But very few people outside the culture understand it. They do not understand the significance of the songs and the dances behind Pow-wow; or the rites and ceremonies contained within a Pow-wow, or why Indian people dance. Here, they explore the true meaning beyond the feathers and beads. Culture lives within the people, it is expressed through those who practice and participate in these celebrations. |
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Since their high-school graduation, former Spokane
Reservation best friends Seymour (Evan Adams) and Aristotle (Gene
Tagaban) have taken different paths. Both ventured off to college in
Seattle, but while Seymour embraced the opportunities of the white
world, Aristotle returned home embittered. Sixteen years later they
are brought together following the sudden death of an old childhood
buddy. Seymour, now an openly gay poet and unofficial spokesman for
American Indians, is met with resentment on "the rez". At the wake,
tensions are heightened, and Aristotle's long festering bitterness is
dangerously exposed.
"Vivid and insightful ... Full of great music and
strong performances" - Seattle Weekly
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James Duval (Donnie Darko) delivers a moving
performance as Hunter, a half Cherokee cursed with the unfortunate
affliction of hemophilia, a white man's disease. Guarded by his
over-protective mother, all he really wants is to be able to hunt
like his father. On his first and only hunting trip, he mistakenly
kills a doe, a major taboo that earns him the nickname "Doe Boy",
and the disappointment of his father. As he moves forward in life,
his grandfather teaches him the importance between hunting and
killing and gives him the courage to find the love he desperately
seeks.
"Emotionally satisfying...is given a lift by
director Redroad's sensitive handling, the film's unforced spiritual
element and an able cast." - Variety
"Intimate, full of strong performances and worthy
of attention." - LA Weekly
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In the shadow of Mt. Rushmore, one of
America's favorite tourist attractions, lies one of her poorest
counties, The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. For Police officer
Rudy Yellow Lodge, the painful legacy of Indian existence is
brought home every night as he locks up drunk and disorderly
Indians, which frequently includes his own brother, Mogie.
Rudy's frustration with the alcoholism on the
'rez' leads him to take the law into his own hands, but his
trail of vengeance ends tragically when he unwittingly injures Mogie.
Ironically, their relationship achieves redemption after Rudy's
tragic error in judgment, and the brothers begin the process of
mending their fractured relationship.
Ultimately, Rudy is able to honor his big
brother, as well as his people, with one exhilarating and
life-affirming act of defiance, revealing the redemptive power
of the love between the two brothers.
"Three Stars" - New York Daily News
"Just as humorous and more engaging that
Smoke Signals" - Roger Ebert /Chicago Sun Times
"Skins has great heart!" - Robert Redford
"Greene is just about perfect" - New York
Newsday
"Colorful and powerful...wondrously good
spirited" - The Hollywood Reporter
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Teenager Shane Chasing Horse is a
member of the Dog Soldiers gang on the Pine Ridge
Reservation. His mom asks him to take his grandpa Old
Pete Chasing Horse to the All Nations Storytelling Powwow
in Santa Fe. Shane owes money to some gangsters, so he
agrees in order to get out of town. As they drive across
South Dakota in a beat-up old Ford, Grandpa tells
stories from different Native Nations. Like Old Pete's
wise tales themselves, Dreamkeeper is important and
illuminating storytelling for the entire family.
Those who've watched other Native
movies will see many familiar faces.
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Val Kilmer, Graham Greene and
Sam Shepard star in this powerful murder mystery
with style and suspense. Kilmer stars as Ray
Levoi, a hot-shot FBI agent who's thrust into a
strange new world when he is sent to solve a
murder on an Indian reservation. Hand-picked
because of his part-Sioux ancestry, Levoi is
teamed with a legendary older agent (Shepard) to
capture a radical Indian protester. But once on
the reservation, Levoi encounters the irreverent
local sheriff (Greene), and the tribe's religious
leader (Chief Ted Thin Elk), who knows secrets
about Levoi's own lost heritage. And as Levoi's
awareness of the Native culture grows, so does his
belief that the U.S. government has framed an
innocent man.
"Two thumbs up!' - Siskel &
Ebert
"Thunderheart is an exciting,
high velocity action adventure" - New York
Newsday
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Lieutenant Joe
Leaphorn (Wes Studi) and Officer Jim
Chee (Adam Beech) of the Navajo Tribal
Police investigate the murder
of medicine man Roman George, who has
left a partially completed pictograph at
the crime scene. A clue to his killer?
Chee thinks so, since he himself is
studying to be a medicine man with his
former guardian, Wilson Sam. One clue
sends chills through the young officer:
an arrow used in the killing has a tip
of human bone, a sign that a Navajo
spirit - a "skinwalker" - is at work.
Leaphorn has little
patience for his partner's interest in
the supernatural. Moreover, he is
distracted by the deteriorating health
of his wife Emma, who is diagnosed with
recurrent cancer by Dr. Stone, a
brilliant young Navajo physician who has
recently returned to the reservation.
The plot thickens
when medicine man Roosevelt Bistie turns
up dismembered at an archaeological
dig. Again, there are signs of a
skinwalker on the job, including human
footprints that turn into animal tracks
- a trademark of skinwalkers.
Bonus DVD feature is
"The Making of Skinwalkers" including
interviews with Robert Redford and Tony
Hillerman.
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Lying on his deathbed, the aging Cheyenne warrior, Windwalker, tells his life’s story to his small grandchildren. He recounts his years as a young brave, marriage to beautiful Tashina, the blessing of having twin sons born to them, and his anguish at having Tashina die and one of the babies stolen by a raid of Crow warriors. After Windwalker passes on, The Great Spirit reawakens him for one final mission. The cast includes Trevor Howard as Windwalker, Nick Ramus, James Remar, Serene Hedin and Dusty Iron Wing McCrea. “Joyous, breathtaking, authentic” - Los Angeles Times “Deserves an Oscar” - Detroit Free Press “A magnificent movie… the vision and natural beauty of Dances With Wolves” - Roger Ebert, Siskel & Ebert |
