In recognition of Native American Heritage Month, Bullfrog Films is proud to present a selection of documentary films from our catalog that explore the history, struggles and achievements of Indigenous peoples from their own perspectives and in their own words.
These films are available on DVD with public performance rights and streaming for school and library use. In-person and virtual campus-wide or community screenings are available now through Bullfrog Communities.
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From the forthcoming short documentary series Fixing Food, "The Native Table" profiles Chef Sean Sherman (Lakota Sioux) and his business partner Dana Thomson (Dakota) as they explore their Native cultural heritages by re-creating pre-colonial menus – meals that use no dairy, no wheat, no sugar. At their James Beard Award-winning Minneapolis restaurant Owamni and at their Natifs Food Lab, they are bringing back to life the food ways of their not-so-distant Sioux ancestors and showing that by combining the past with the best in modern farming practices, we can create more sustainable and ethical food systems.
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Thirst For Justice follows Janene Yazzie, a Navajo mother of two, as she searches for the source of contamination in the school water supply in Sanders, AZ. Armed with a Geiger counter she begins investigating radioactive waste on the Navajo Nation. When the epic movement for water justice ignites in Standing Rock, Janene is compelled to join. There she meets Flint water activist Nayyirah Shariff, and their struggles converge.
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Amá tells the story of the forced relocation and involuntary sterilization committed against Native American women by the Indian Health Service well into the 1970s. The film features three remarkable women telling their stories – Jean Whitehorse, Yvonne Swan and Charon Asetoyer – as well as a revealing and rare interview with Dr. Reimert Ravenholt, whose population control ideas were the framework for some of the government policies directed at Native American women.
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This collaborative documentary presents an inspiring, on-the-ground look at the 2016 Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project, beginning with the birth of the protests in 2016 and portraying significant moments such as the rapid growth of the Sacred Stone Camp and a tense standoff with police at Turtle Island in November of 2016. Awake tells a 21st century story of Native-led defiance that has forever changed the fight for clean water, our environment, and indigenous sovereignty.
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We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân tells a remarkable story of cultural revival, following MacArthur 'Genius' Award winning linguist Jessie Little Doe Baird and her efforts to revive the native language of the Wampanoag Tribes of Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard – the first time a language with no native speakers for many generations has been revived in the United States.
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Tribal Justice is a feature documentary about a little known, under-reported but effective criminal justice reform movement in America: the efforts of tribal courts to create alternative justice systems based on their traditions. In California, the state with the largest number of Indian people and tribes, two formidable Native American women are among those leading the way: Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge of the Yurok Tribe on the northwest coast, and Claudette White, Chief Judge of the Quechan Tribe.
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In this beautiful and informative short film, famed Haida artist Robert Davidson carves his latest monumental totem pole and gives a rare insight into the deeper meanings of the imagery found on North Coast Indigenous art works. Davidson—an articulate and engaging master carver—shows how he created a totem pole called "We Were Once Silenced," a work dedicated to the memory of the wrongs suffered by his people at the hands of the captains of colonization. In his new, more hopeful work, Robert celebrates the cultural and political reawakening of the Indigenous peoples of the world in general, and the Haida Nation particular, with a pole called "Gyaangee: Beyond Being Silenced." |
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For additional films on Native American, First Nations and Indigenous peoples, please browse our related subject area.
To order these or other Bullfrog Films releases with public performance rights,
Order by phone at (610) 779-8226
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Bullfrog Films is the oldest and largest publisher of documentary films about the environment in the United States. We define "environment" broadly, and our catalog includes programs on ecology, energy, agriculture, indigenous peoples, women's studies, genetics, marine biology, sustainable development, community regeneration, economics, ethics, and conflict resolution. |
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