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Indigenous Media

  • A young Dujuan Hoosan is sitting on a hill, looking pensively to his left. He is from the Arrernte Nation, group of Aboriginal Australian peoples from Central Australia.
    September 21, 2020

    'In My Blood It Runs:' Visualizing the Weight of History through an Aboriginal Child's Eyes

    Dujuan Hoosan is a precocious 10-year-old from Mparntwe (Alice Springs), Australia, considered a healer by his Arrernte tribe and a delinquent by his colonialist-minded school. For more than two years, Australian documentarian Maya Newell followed Dujuan, capturing both quotidian moments and broader patterns of racism, with special focus on the educational and juvenile detention systems.
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  • August 9, 2020

    Documentaries to Watch for International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples

    If every documentary tells a story, then one of the most critical issues in our community today is who gets to tell that story, and to whom. IDA has
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  • November 15, 2018

    Documentaries to Watch for Native American Heritage Month

    Editor’s note: In celebration of National Native American Heritage Month, we invited Rebekka Herrera-Schlichting, Assistant Director of one of our
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  • October 18, 2017

    Sterlin Harjo on the Dos and Don'ts of Filming in Indian Country

    Editor's Note: Lauren Wissot had interviewed Sterlin Harjo for the article she wrote for the Fall 2017 issue, entitled " Whose Story? Five Doc-Makers
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  • August 21, 2017

    Doc Star of the Month: Chief Judge Abby Abinanti, 'Tribal Justice'

    An eye-opening documentary about restorative justice on the rez, Anne Makepeace's Tribal Justice should be required viewing for anyone involved in
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  • January 31, 2005

    2004 Pioneer Award: Bringing Pleasure, Learning and Understanding—Alanis Obomsawin

    "My name is Alanis Obomsawin. I am an Abenaki woman from Odenak, Québec," she proclaims. Her life reads like a storybook legend. She was born on
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