Stars: | Documentary. A film account about the military 1990 siege of a Native American reserve near Oka, Quebec, Canada and its causes. Donavon G. Barney, Stars: James McDaniel, David Gulpilil, Zacharias Kunuk | Pakak Innuksuk, Norman Cohn, Documentary, Filmmaker Lydia Nibley explores the cultural context behind a tragic and senseless murder. Michael Apted Indian boarding schools, ... As a child at a mission boarding school in the 1960s, I was forced to learn English. Most former students are in their 50-70s, the administrators are mostly deceased. | Sterlin Harjo Kenneth Branagh, Gene Hackman, A mom looks for another source of income, when her husband leaves with the money meant for the new mobile home. | | Its is about a Native American brother and sister who were sent to a boarding school. | PG | Tom Brown’s School Days (1951) Young Tom Brown is new to the boarding school … PG-13 An adaptation of Ojibway writer Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel, this moving and important drama sheds light on the dark history of Canada’s boarding schools or Indigenous Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of aboriginal people. | Documentary, History. A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics. One of the few fiction films featuring female Native American leads. | Gross: | Stars: Jimmy Herman, 96 min Stars: In 1931, three half-white, half-Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their houses to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a journey across the Outback. The battle against and the victory over the boarding school monster is told by educators, former and current students who were interviewed at Carlisle; Sherman Indian School, Riverside, Calif.; Sequoyah High School, Tahlequah, Okla.; Anchorage, Alaska; and other locations. It's about an older man, Minygululu, who has three wives and realizes that his younger brother Dayindi may try to steal away the youngest wife. Smuggling? | 4,475 Herbie Barnes, | Another great performance from Wes Studi, and a depiction of Indian boarding schools. Stars: Wes Allen, Wes Studi, Drama, Family. Stars: Action, Drama, War. Melissa Leo, The effects of the abuse left lasting impressions on the children who often grew up to be abusers themselves. Irene Bedard, Jonathan Wacks Kimberly Guerrero, Votes: Yvonne Russo, Eric Schweig, Edgar Bear Runner. Rawiri Paratene, A lovely low-budget film! Adam Beach, Stars: Learn about the history of American Indian boarding schools. Ron Lea, Gary Farmer, 27,319 Charles Abourezk, Side note: Leonard Peltier is still in prison, even though the F.B.I. Lucy Tulugarjuk, Votes: Drama, Family, Jesse Threebears is a troubled Native-American teen who has been tossed from one foster home to the next since his mother died when he was an infant. 106 min Side Note: This is writer Sherman Alexie's fav Native American film. 114 min Jim Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), the iconic hero, survived the boarding school system and was initially held up as a role model of what the school could do for a student. In Australia's Northern Territory, a man tells us a story of his people and his land. Two tribal cops uncover a plot involving a lost fortune, an historical artifact and a mythical Coyote on a Navajo reservation. Chip Richie, About the Film. 81 min Steve Barron Drama, Romance. Director: Great Documentary! Wes Studi, Votes: These kids – 5 year olds – were handcuffed and taken away in buses to the other side of the country. | These Indian children were forbidden from wearing traditional dress or hair, and from speaking their native language. Stars: The role of women and tradition in Dine (Navajo) culture is explored through a young woman's quest for the Miss Navajo Nation crown. Drama, Three Native American sisters (Red-Horse, Bedard, Guerrero) decide to try to sell a line of cosmetics they call Naturally Native, based on old tribal remedies, only to have to fight an ... See full summary », Directors: Thomas thinks of Arnold as a hero, while Arnold's son Victor resents his father's alcoholism, violence and abandonment of his family. Stars: A contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young Maori girl fights to fulfill a destiny her grandfather refuses to recognize. Deshava Apachee, Absentee Shawnee Boarding School, near Shawnee, Indian Territory, was open in 1893. $0.02M. | Stars: | Native American boarding schools, which operated in Minnesota and across the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century, represent a dark chapter in U.S. history. Crime, Mystery, Thriller. Drama, Thriller, Western. Tom Jackson, 1,042 $18.64M. | Arnold rescued Thomas from a fire when he was a child. Peter-Henry Arnatsiaq, Sylvia Ivalu, Jason Patric, Dan Agent, Bradley Cooper, Indian children were forcibly abducted by government agents, sent to schools… Evan Adams, Until its closing in 1918, over 10,500 children were sent to the school to become “civilized” and learn the white man’s ways and language. | Calvin Billy, Peter Stormare, Stars: Darelle 'Dino' Butler, Votes: Stars: $0.17M. The main character is an introspective and lovable person in a process of seeking pride ... See full summary », Director: 44 min The most useful thing they learned was English as it brought all the various tribal children – Cherokee, Chicasaw, Cree, Navajo – together in a common language. 1,546 Drama, Romance. 446 | 60 min Stars: Robert Sikma, Stars: Timothy Vahle, Political drama situated in a First Nations community in Canada. “Andrew’s oral history of his boarding school experience was the inspiration for this film. Stars: Based on the journals of 1920s Danish ethnographer Knud Rasmussen. Gut wrenching, confounding, and complex, Rich-Heape Films have released their long awaited documentary titled Our Spirits Don t Speak English: Indian Boarding School. News From Indian Country 8-08. | Ethel Begay, I didn’t know any other language so whenever I’d talk, it would come out. Candice Costello, The Ignacio boarding school mirrors the preservation of the Amache detention center outside Granada in southeast Colorado. Nicolas Cage, Fort Shaw Indian School, Fort Shaw, Montana. | I think the sister made some strides while her brother struggled in … A woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her Native American boarding school... See full summary » Director: Georgina Lightning | Stars: Adam Beach, Tantoo Cardinal, Bradley Cooper, Georgina Lightning. And whenever I’d talk, I’d get hit.” “We met Andrew Windy Boy in 2002 while on the Summit Lake Paiute Reservation in northern Nevada,” says Heape. William Billy. Kevin Anderson, If you haven’t heard about boarding schools, known at the time as Indian residential schools, and how they were created to strip Natives of our culture, the film might be shocking to you. Stars: Stars: | Alanis Obomsawin Mar 26, 2015 - Explore Stephanie Marie's board "Indian Boarding Schools", followed by 144 people on Pinterest. | Laura Bailey, | $0.28M. | Randy Redroad Radmilla Cody, R Stars: Director: | | Noah Emmerich, Votes: | Amanda Wyss, Votes: Gayle Ross, Graham Greene, Nov 2, 2016 - Explore Jean Bruce Scott's board "Indian Boarding Schools", followed by 149 people on Pinterest. Indian boarding school film teaches a new lesson. Directors: Bebe Harjo, 5.0 out of 5 stars This is an important but sad film on the forced enrollment of Native American children in boarding schools. | Gross: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. $6.72M. Tell us what you think about this feature. A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity. 107 min 9,231 Evan Adams, Sam Shepard, Fred Martinez was a Navajo youth slain at the age of 16 by a man who bragged to his friends that ... See full summary », Also known as Two Spirits: Sexuality, Gender, and the Murder of Fred Martinez, PG-13 There were more than 350 government-funded, and often church-run, Indian Boarding schools across the US in the 19th and 20th centuries. Marilyn Help Hood, Stars: Jan Egleson I have an M.A. 39,299 102 min Jeri Arredondo, 112 min Misty Upham, Robbie retired as the director of Native American Health Sciences at Washington State University’s Spokane campus in … August Schellenberg. Director: Ethel Blondin, Love Alanis Obomsawin! 172 min 90 min A portrayal of the lives of the last great Inuit shaman, Avva, and his beautiful and headstrong daughter, Apak. Students will have the opportunity to consider and compare their own experiences with those of the Native American … Director: The first Indian Territory Boarding Schools opened in 1872, and some are still in operation at present. Finally, he is taken in by his ... See full summary », Director: Travis Holt Hamilton Native American boarding schools, also known as Indian Residential Schools, were established in the United States during the late 19th and mid 20th centuries with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture, while at the same time providing a basic education in Euro-American subject matters. One of the most compelling is an interview with Andrew Windy Boy (Chippewa/Cree), from which the title is taken. Our Favorite Native American Movies on Netflix - PowWows.com Nando Betancur. Jamie Gulpilil, Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, apologized for previous governments’ policies of taking Indian children from their parents and homes and forcing them into residential Roman Catholic schools. Adam Beach, Crime, Drama. Windy Boy gave the filmmakers the idea for the documentary. Drama, A woman's haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest's sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that took place at her Native American boarding school... See full summary », Director: Older than America is 2008 American suspense drama film directed by Georgina Lightning and starring Adam Beach, Wes Studi, Georgina Lightning and Bradley Cooper. | Gross: They were shamed and abused psychologically, many were abused sexually as well. R Natar Ungalaaq, | Stars: | Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School (2008, G, 80 minutes) Most students have never heard of Indian Boarding Schools, and this documentary is an eye-opening starting point for discussions of diverse educational experiences in the United States. Eddie Spears, Stars: | Jennifer Wynne Farmer, It was the first feature film ever to be written, directed and acted entirely in Inuktitut, and has been highly praised. Love this film by Chris Eyre, especially the last scene. Director: Richard Birrinbirrin, Adventure, Biography, Drama. Director: Keep reading for a look at six good to great boys school-set movies that you probably haven’t seen. Bond’s Mission School or Montana Industrial School for Indians, run by Unitarians, Crow Indian Reservation near Custer Station, Montana, 1886–97. Stars: He's not a "militant"... he's manito. | Gross: Sterlin Harjo Definitely look her up, she was pretty awesome. | 80 min After his father's untimely suicide, Cufe leaves his home in a Native American reservation in search of a more fulfilling life. Chris Eyre | Gross: That was the mindset under which the U.S. government forced tens of thousands of Native American children to attend “assimilation” boarding schools in the late 19th century. Healing Voices Movement - Stories - The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition “I was four years old when stolen and taken to Chemawa, Oregon. Swil Kanim, Votes: | Misty Upham, 85 min Richard Chamberlain, | Gross: Everlyn Sampi, $22.66M. Yet, despite the harsh treatment, the film shows that many of the graduates eventually took their newfound knowledge and used it to fight the system that had attempted to destroy them. | | Director: Comedy, Family, Romance. Keisha Castle-Hughes, Director: Comedy, Drama. August Schellenberg, 6,276 Raised in the suburbs or Phoenix, a Navajo college student must choose between a vacation in Rome or moving to the reservation to care for her ailing grandmother. I haven't seen this one yet, but I'm sure Graham Greene is amazing. Drama. $0.01M. Georgina Lightning directs this haunting film. Stars: Great film that focuses on the history of aboriginal children in New Zealand (happened in the U.S. and Canada too) being forced into Boarding schools. Gayle Ross, Gene Tagaban, Kate Montgomery Billy Luther | A Martinez, Watching it as a Native woman was difficult, mostly because I have heard many elders speak quietly of these times, and of the pain they endured. R Director: Quese IMC. Nowhere in our lessons was there any mention of Native history. Grace Thorpe (Sauk and Fox), his daughter, in her last interview before she passed away on April 4, 2008, discusses boarding school experiences in the new documentary. PG Noah Watts, Votes: Stars: Valerie Red-Horse 143 $0.54M. Karl Tipre The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U.S. Government's subjugation of his people. Director: On June 10, 2008, the government of Canada formally apologized to the World, in a solemn parliament session for its treatment of Indians in the last century. Stars: Irene Bedard, Peter Djigirr | Great film by Native director Valerie Red-Horse. Chris Eyre By Sandra Hale Schulman News From Indian Country 8-08 Gut wrenching, confounding, and complex, Rich-Heape Films have released their long awaited documentary titled “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English: Indian Boarding School.” A chapter of American history that few know about, this is the searing story of how Indian children were forced – often by their poverty-stricken parents – into boarding schools that were run like Christian military prisons. | Frank Pierson Director: 95 min Director: Not Rated Moving Forward . A nearby Indian territory stretches across the border to Canada with a drivable frozen river between. Crusoe Kurddal, One of the few fiction films exploring Two-Spirit identity. Screenwriter of the film is Dan Agent (Cherokee/Choctaw), former editor of the Cherokee Phoenix from November 1999 through 2006, original story by Karl Tipre. Robert Redford, | Gross: Steven Lewis Simpson Great performances. Laura Monaghan, Votes: M. Emmet Walsh, 100 min R Eric Schweig, Kathleen Benner, 95 min INDIAN HORSE stars Canadian newcomers Sladen Peltier and Edna Manitowabi, as well as Ajuawak Kapashesit (Indian Road Trip, … | Gross: Great indie gem! | | Charlie McDermott, | Another lovely film by Sterlin Harjo! Mary Ashby Anderson, $3.79M. Walter Hill | Director: Jesse and Lydia had 11 children; the seven who survived all attended boarding schools, including Paul’s father, Titus, also called Koo-Ya-Mah, or Mountain Lion. | Montana American Indian Boarding Schools 795 Views Bond’s Mission School or Montana Industrial School for Indians , run by Unitarians, Crow Indian Reservation near Custer Station, Montana, 1886–97. Hard to find film, featuring an excellent performance by Irene Bedard (voice of Disney's Pocahontas). Cliff Curtis, Votes: Phillip Noyce | Heather Rae Robert A. Guthrie, Georgina Lightning. Crime, Drama. Carmen Moore, Romance, Thriller, Set on and around the poorest place in the USA, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Rez Bomb is a love story/thriller about a Lakota girl and a white guy who are very much in love but get ... See full summary », Director: | Directors: John Trudell. Adam Beach, Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect Navajo Marines, who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher. Drama, Fantasy, In South Dakota, in an Indian reservation, an old storyteller Indian asks his grandson Shane, who is in trouble owing money to some bad guys, to take his old pony and him to Albuquerque to ... See full summary », Director: evidence that put him there is sketchy. A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation. Graham Greene, | Gross: Not Rated | Gross: | Kevin Willmott | Gary Farmer, | “[They] took me to the boarding school where I wasn’t allowed to talk my Native tongue or practice my Native ways. Drama, Mary Crow Dog, daughter of a desperately poor Indian family in South Dakota, is swept up in the protests of the 1960s and becomes sensitized to the injustices that society inflicts on her ... See full summary », Director: He attended boarding schools in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and talks about the assault on his culture. Israel Richard Adams, This film & Thunderheart would be good screened together. Joanelle Romero, $0.28M, See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc, Our Spirits Don't Speak English: Indian Boarding School. Unrated | Gross: | “How do you apologize to the dead?” asks filmmaker Steven Heape, Cherokee Nation Citizen and executive producer of Rich-Heape Films. ... See full summary ». Valerie Red-Horse R 119 min | 9,640 Gary Farmer, | He must go home one last time. | Sherman Alexie Frederick Parslow, R The truth about the US Indian boarding school policy has largely been written out of the history books. Drama, Music, Seymour Polatkin is a successful, gay Native American poet from Spokane who confronts his past when he returns to his childhood home on the reservation to attend the funeral of a dear ... See full summary », Director: 101 min Floyd 'Red Crow' Westerman. In Sally Hyer’s book, One House, One Voice, One Heart: Native American Education at the Santa Fe Indian School, many turn-of-the-century students at the Santa Fe school recount being frightened overwhelmed by their experiences. APACHE 8 tells the story of an all-women wildland firefighter crew from the White Mountain Apache Tribe, who have been fighting fires in Arizona and throughout the U.S., for over 30 years. in Media Studies and did my thesis on American Indian women directors, so this subject is very interesting to me. Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2015 Verified Purchase | Gross: Michael O'Keefe, Votes: And they are racing against time to find their way home. I have yet to see this, but I've heard lots of raves about it. Stars: Rolf de Heer, Stars: “This story truly crosses borders.” “Our Spirits Don’t Speak English; Indian Boarding Schools” is the latest addition to the Native-owned film company’s portfolio of award winning films, that includes “Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy,” released in 2006 and chosen “Best Documentary Feature” at the 31st Annual American Indian Film Festival. 94 min Georgina Lightning | Gabriel Pelayo, Frankie needs help and Irene is the one he turns to. 88 min Drama, History, Western. KUED takes a moving and insightful look into the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system, whose goal was total assimilation of … Stars: $40.91M. The skills they were taught denigrated them to lifelong working class service jobs such as construction, cooking, and sewing. | Gross: Also called industrial schools, these institutions prepared boys for manual labor and farming and girls for domestic work. A chapter of American history that few know about, this is the searing story of how Indian children were forced often by their poverty-stricken parents into boarding schools that … | Gross: R | Check it out on Netflix! Stars: | Drama, Depicts the struggles of reservation-dwelling Native Americans in the North Central United States. Michelle St. John, Stars: | | Ida Gail Organick. Documentary, Family, From Rich-Heape Films, the award winning producers of Trail of Tears Cherokee Legacy and Black Indians An American Story and told from the Native American perspective, this documentary ... See full summary », Directors: 100 min Anadarko Boarding School, Anadarko, Oklahoma open 1911–33.. Bacone College, Muscogee, Oklahoma, 1881–present.. Bloomfield Female Academy, originally near Achille, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.Opened in 1848 but relocated to Ardmore, Oklahoma around 1917 and in 1934 was renamed Carter Seminary.. Carter Seminary, Ardmore, Oklahoma 1917-2004 when the facility … Documentary, In 1918, not yet citizens of the U.S., Choctaw members of the American Expeditionary Forces were asked to use their Native language as a powerful tool against the German Forces in World War... See full summary », Director: Neeve Irngaut, Amy Ray, Votes: 89 min | While it has a white male lead, it features great performances from Graham Greene & Sheila Tousey and touches on some real issues (Sheila's character is based on the amazing Anna Mae Pictou Aquash). J. Kenneth Campbell, Scott | Action, Drama. While I love Wes Studi in anything, the movie lacks mention of the female warrior Lozen whose skill helped them tremendously! $6.17M. See more ideas about indian boarding schools, boarding school, native american boarding schools. Chris Eyre According to Heape a class action suit was filed by some North Dakota elders against the school system but never went anywhere. In years preceding the era of Indian boarding schools, under the doctrine of “manifest destiny,” the U.S. government was continually engaged in removing Native American tribes to … Irene Bedard, He and other survivors of the boarding school system truly have my respect for what was endured just for being an Indian child. Stars: Director: Jeri Arredondo, | Love this documentary directed by Sande Zeig and produced by Heather Rae. Mariana Tosca, The most well-know Indian directed film (Chris Eyre). 94 min 80 min | Peter Weir This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S. Dakota where two FBI agents were killed. | Michael J.F. | 119 min Director: | Gayle Ross, renowned Cherokee storyteller and Great Granddaughter of Chief John Ross, is host and narrator of the film. Stars: The film explores the devastating personal and cultural effects of the American Indian boarding schools on the members of a Native American family in Minnesota. 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