Native American Feature Films
Use the listed call numbers to find the films on the second floor, unless otherwise specified. To learn more about call numbers, view the Finding Items in the Library Tutorial. For streaming videos, click the title and log in with your Office 365 account if prompted.
Dances with WolvesCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DANCES WITHSent to protect a U.S. outpost on the desolate frontier, Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner) finds himself alone in the vast wilderness. Befriending the very people he's sent to protect the outpost from, the Sioux Indians, Dunbar slowly comes to revere those he once feared.
Drunktown's FinestCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV DRUNKTOWN'SOn a beautifully desolate Navajo reservation in New Mexico, three young people, a college-bound, devout Christian woman; a rebellious and angry father-to-be; and a promiscuous but gorgeous transsexual woman, search for love and acceptance. As the three find their lives becoming more complicated and their troubles growing, their paths begin to intersect.
File Under MiscellaneousCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV FILE UNDER MISC.Set in a dystopic metropolitan hellscape: a spiritually exhausted and destitute Mi'gMaq man has resolved to assimilate into the ruling culture. He visits a surgical clinic - the display window littered with skin and limb samples - and undergoes a gruesome procedure to rid him of his red skin.
Language: Micmac and English, with optional English subtitles.
ImprintCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV IMPRINTA Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying farther. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions that cause her to re-examine beliefs she thought she left behind.
Last of the MohicansCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV LAST OF THE M.The love of Hawkeye, rugged frontiersman and adopted son of the Mohicans, and Cora Munro, aristocratic daughter of a British colonel, blazes amidst a brutal conflict between the British, the French and Native American allies in colonial America.- Rhymes for Young Ghouls
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Call Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV RHYMES FORA Micmac Indian teen tries to avoid attending the required residential school by bribing the agent who runs the school with money from drug sales. She has to deal with the theft of her money and her father's return from prison. - SkinsCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SKINSRudy Yellow Lodge is both a resident and a police officer of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Dealing with the fallout and emotional burdens of reservation life in one of the poorest counties in the U.S., as alcoholism and poverty continually threaten the community, his family, and his own state of mind, Rudy finds himself taking the law into his own hands, with potentially tragic consequences.
Smoke SignalsCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SMOKE SIGNALSDepicts two young Native Americans, Victor and Thomas, who leave their small town to retrieve the remains of Victor's father.
Songs My Brother Taught MeCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SONGS MY BRO.A compelling and complex portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother (John Reddy) and his younger sister (Jashaun St .John), who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Squanto: A Warrior's TaleCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV SQUANTOSquanto, a young warrior, is kidnapped from America and taken to England to be put on display as a savage. He escapes and becomes a leader amongst his people.- Wind RiverCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WIND RIVERA rookie FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker with deep community ties and a haunted past to investigate the mysterious killing of a local girl on a remote Native American reservation.
Winter in the BloodCall Number: Movies & TV ; MOVIES & TV WINTER IN THEVirgil First Raise wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes, has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey of inebriated intrigues with a mysterious "Airplane Man," a beautiful barmaid, and two dangerous men in suits
