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Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Description
A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely changed over the last centuries, live according to their own...
Author
Publisher
Better Than Games
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 invader board, 4 island boards, 8 spirit panels, 4 scenario panels, 3 adversary panels, 36 minor power cards, 22 major power cards, 32 unique power cards, 2 blight cards, 15 fear cards, 15 invader cards, 8 player-aid cards, 4 power progression cards, 2 terror level dividers, 3 adversary reminder tiles, 40 explorer pieces, 32 town pieces, 20 city pieces, 38 blight pieces, 36 Dahan pieces, 52 presence discs, 12 single-turn effect markers, 20 fear markers, 32 energy markers) : plastic, wood, cardboard, card stock, color ; in container 30 x 30 x 8 cm + 1 rulebook
Language
English
Description
"The island needs your help! Powerful Spirits have existed on this isolated island for time immemorial. They are both part of the natural world and--at the same time--something beyond nature. Native Islanders, known as the Dahan, have learned how to co-exist with the spirits, but with a healthy dose of caution and respect. However, now, the island has been "discovered" by invaders from a far-off land. These would-be colonists are taking over the land...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After twenty-five years Jean-Michel Cousteau returns to the Amazon and revisited areas he'd explored with his father, Jacques Cousteau. Deforestation, population shifts and burgeoning cities have taken their toll on the area but so have numerous efforts to protect the rainforests, wildlife and indigenous people. The ecology of this one river has global consequences.
8) Windspeaker
Publisher
[Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta]
Pub. Date
[1986]-[2016]
Language
English
Language
English
Description
"Over the centuries, explorers traded tales of a lost civilization amid the dense Amazonian rainforest. Scientists dismissed the legends as exaggerations, believing that the rainforest could not sustain such a huge population--until now. A new generation of explorers armed with 21st-century technology has uncovered remarkable evidence that could reinvent our understanding of the Amazon and the indigenous peoples who lived there ..."--Container.
Publisher
Advanced Laboratory for Visual Anthropology
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (28 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) promotes an indigenous approach to environmental stewardship. Our world faces unprecedented ecological challenges. Collaborating with local peoples is a crucial step toward a more sustainable future.
12) Didgeridoo
Author
Publisher
Etherean Music
Pub. Date
p2001
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet (14 p.)
Language
English
Publisher
Centre Communications
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 235 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Documents the Native American struggle against European settlers beginning with Francisco Vazquez de Coronado's expedition across the Great Plains.
Chronicles the 350 year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. The Battle Tippecanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last official massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee,...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color with black & white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
"Native Hawaiians and Aboriginal Australians resist threats to their sacred places in a growing international movement to defend human rights and protect the environment. In Australia's Northern Territory, Aboriginal clans maintain Indigenous Protected Areas and resist the destructive effects of a mining boom. In Hawaii, indigenous ecological and spiritual practices are used to restore the sacred island of Kahoolawe after 50 years of military use...
Publisher
Shark Dog Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
January 18, 2019: it was the smirk heard round the world. Surrounded by cheering classmates on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., seventeen-year old Nick Sandmann, a student at northern Kentucky's private, affluent Covington Catholic High School, instantly became a global headline, villainized on social media and in the news as he appeared to confront Nathan Phillips, a Native American elder attempting to keep the peace at that...
Author
Publisher
Greater Than Games, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 game (1 invader board, 4 island boards, 8 spirit panels, 4 scenario panels, 3 adversary panels, 36 minor power cards, 22 major power cards, 32 unique power cards, 2 blight cards, 15 fear cards, 15 invader cards, 8 player-aid cards, 4 power progression cards, 2 terror level dividers, 3 adversary reminder tiles, 40 explorer pieces, 32 town pieces, 20 city pieces, 38 blight pieces, 36 Dahan pieces, 52 presence discs, 12 single-turn effect markers, 20 fear markers, 32 energy markers) : plastic, wood, cardboard, card stock, color ; in container 30 x 30 x 8 cm + 1 rulebook (31 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm)
Language
English
Description
"The island needs your help! Powerful Spirits have existed on this isolated island for time immemorial. They are both part of the natural world and - at the same time - something beyond nature. Native Islanders, known as the Dahan, have learned how to co-exist with the spirits, but with a healthy dose of caution and respect. However, now, the island has been 'discovered' by invaders from a far-off land. These would-be colonists are taking over the...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
"From Papua New Guinea rainforests to Canada's tar sands, Profit and Loss exposes industrial threats to native peoples' health, livelihood and cultural survival. In Papua New Guinea, a Chinese government owned nickel mine has violently relocated villagers to a taboo sacred mountain, built a new pipeline and refinery on contested clan land, and is dumping mining waste into the sea. In Alberta, First Nations people suffer from rare cancers as their...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide.
Language
English
Description
"From Ethiopia to Peru, indigenous customs protect biodiversity on sacred lands under pressure from religious conflicts and climate change. In the Gamo Highlands of Ethiopia, scientists confirm the benefits of traditional stewardship even as elders witness the decline of spiritual practices that have long protected trees, meadows and mountains. Tensions with evangelical Christians over a sacred meadow erupt into a riot. In the Peruvian Andes, the...
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 57 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide
Language
English
Description
"Around the world, indigenous communities stand in the way of government megaprojects. In the Russian Republic of Altai, traditional native people create their own mountain parks to rein in tourism and resist a gas pipeline that would cut through a World Heritage Site. In northern California, Winnemem Wintu girls grind herbs on a sacred medicine rock, as elders protest U.S. government plans to enlarge one of the West's biggest dams and forever submerge...
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