Keyword: indigenous peoples

Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

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1993

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A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes.

Birdwatchers

6.9

2008

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When a tribe of indigenous Guarani Indians attempts to re-inhabit their ancestral land, which lies on the border of a wealthy landowners fields, tensions escalate.

We Were Children

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2012

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For over 130 years till 1996, more than 100,000 of Canadas First Nations children were legally required to attend government-funded schools run by various Christian faiths. There were 80 of these residential schools across the country. Most children were sent to faraway schools that separated them from their families and traditional land. These children endured brutality, physical hardship, mental degradation, and the complete erasure of their culture. The schools were part of a wider program of assimilation designed to integrate the native population into Canadian society. These schools were established with the express purpose To kill the Indian in the child. Told through their own voices, We Were Children is the shocking true story of two such children: Glen Anaquod and Lyna Hart.

Tawai: A Voice from the Forest

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2017

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Explorer Bruce Parry travels the world, living with indigenous peoples, delving deeper then ever on a journey into the heart of our collective human conscience.

Undermined: Tales from the Kimberley

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2018

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Kimberley Traditional Owners question what meaningful negotiation looks like and offer humanising portraits of those at the centre of this battle in Australia’s spectacular north-west corner, which governments aspire to make \the future economic powerhouse of Australia\. With the highest percentage of Aboriginal people living on Country in Australia, what will this mean for the Kimberley’s custodians, lands and cultures, and will they survive these pressures?