Events

February 5, 2009

Augsburg College
Science Hall, Room 123, 707 21^st Avenue South

Screening at 6 p.m.

Limited parking available in Lot A (see map link below)

Older Than America a film by Georgina Lightning. A woman’s haunting visions reveal a Catholic priest’s sinister plot to silence her mother from speaking the truth about the atrocities that occurred at Native American boarding school. A contemporary drama of suspense, Older Than America focuses on the lasting impact of the cultural genocide that occurred at such schools.

For more information: www.olderthanamerica.com

November 12, 2008

133 Skyway and The Doe Boy (both directed by Randy Redroad)

Augsburg College
Science Hall, Room 123, 707 21st Avenue South

Screening at 6 p.m.

Limited parking available in Lot A (see map link below)

133 Skyway (2006, 22 min.) is a visceral reflection of urban homelessness, survival and friendship. Derek Miller plays Hartley, a homeless man trying to get his guitar out of hock.  As his health fails, Hartley relies on a troubled friend and the kindness of a lonely pawnshop employee. The film won Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Fargo International Film Festival.

The Doe Boy (2001, 83 minutes) The Doe Boy tells the story of Hunter, a half Cherokee cursed with the unfortunate affliction of hemophilia, a white man’s disease. Guarded by his overprotective mother, all he really wants is to be able to hunt like his father. On his first and only hunting trip, he mistakenly kills a doe, a major taboo that earns him the nickname “Doe Boy,” and the disappointment of his father.  As he moves forward in life, his grandfather teaches him the importance between hunting and killing and gives him the courage to find the love he desperately seeks.

For more information: www.randyredroad.com

Documentaries at Augsburg:

Science Hall, Room 123, 707 21st. Avenue South

Limited parking will be available in Lot A

November 4, 2007

Way of the Warrior (Patty Loew, 2007), Hosted by Patricia Loew

Time: 6-8 pm Film Screening, 8:30-10:00 Reception (Wolves Den)

Way of the Warrior uses personal stories of heroes and soldiers to examine the warrior ethic and to try to answer the question why, during the wars of the 20th century, Native men and women volunteered to serve in the U.S. military in numbers that far exceeded their proportion in the general population. These gripping stories from WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam weave a tapestry of positive and negative themes—the warrior ethic, prejudice and stereotypes, forced assimilation, poverty, cultural pride, redemptive acts and healing.  The documentary uses historical footage, period photographs, Native music, personal diaries and interviews to reveal what it means to be “ogichidaa,” one who protects and follows the way of the warrior.

 

January 30, 2008

Return of Navajo Boy (Jeff Speitz, 2000), Hosted by Sandy White Hawk with special guest John Wayne Cly.

Time: 7-8:30 pm Film Screening

8:30-9:30 pm Conversation with Sandy White Hawk, director of First Nations Orphan Association and John Wayne Cly (Navajo Boy)

Return of Navajo Boy chronicles an extraordinary chain of events, beginning with the appearance of a 1950s film reel Navajo Boy, which leads to the return of a long lost brother to his Navajo family.  The film uses a series of still photographs and moving images to tell the story of a family living in Monument valley, the impact of uranium mining, and the reunification of an adoptee with his Navajo family.

 

March 12, 2008

Buffy St. Marie: A Multimedia Life (Joan Prowse), Hosted by Joan Prowse

Time: 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. — Reception for students w/ Joan Prowse (Century Room, Christensen Center lower level)

7 – 8 p.m. — Screening

8 – 9 p.m. — Conversation with host

This film is the story of a remarkable woman and storyteller who shared her life and songs with the world.  This documentary chronicles her career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal activist, digital artist and popular songwriter.

 

New Voices in Native Media

Hosted by Indigenous Film and Media

This event has been combined with the Native American Voices event held in late April 2008 (see below).

Native American Voices

In collaboration with Independent Film Producers of Minnesota

Place: New Parkway Theater

4814 Chicago Ave. S., Minneapolis

612-822-3030

April 24, 2008:

Native American Voices: Narrative Feature Winner from the 7th Annual Fargo International Film Festival

Time:  7- 9:15 p.m.

The Reawakening (Directed by Diane Fraher, New York, 100 min.)

The Reawakening tells the story of a successful Native American attorney, Robert Doctor (Michael Greyeyes), who must choose between his affluent lifestyle in New York City, working for a “white shoe” law firm, and his own self-respect.  While trying to negotiate a huge casino deal that would put his home reservation at great risk, a childhood friend is accused of murder. Tribal elder Wesley Good Voices (Gordon Tootoosis) asks Robert to defend his friend, forcing him to finally choose between his carefully built world of corporate success and the needs and traditional values of his native people.

April 27, 2008:

Native American Voices: Selections from the 7th Annual Fargo International Film Festival

and

New Voices in Native Media: Works by Emerging Native Media Artists

Time: 1 p.m.

Grace (Directed by Darwyn Roanhorse, Oakland, 11 min.)

Pearl, a young runaway, arrives unexpectedly at her aunt’s reservation home.  Indolent and bored, Pearl meets Grace, a poor woman, who sells banana bread at the local government offices.  Pear gets the idea that she can do this too.  What ensues is a life lesson Pearl learns by observing Grace and her inherent goodness — her grace.

Time: 1:15 p.m.

Red Lake: The Sacred Heart of Our People (Students of Project Reserve, Red Lake, MN, 23 min.)

“This documentary is about our lake’s sacred value from the time of its being to the present day.  We believe that Red Lake is the heart of our people and we have shown this by sharing an informative history that will remind us always of its importance.” — Students of Project Reserve

Time: 1:45 p.m.

WLCO TV Science Report (Tribal Youth Media Camp, Wisconsin, 20 min.)

The Tribal Youth Media Camp is held at the community college on the Lac Courte Oreilles (LCO) Indian Reservation (Ojibwe) in northern Wisconsin. The Ojibwe students are part of the tribal community within which the Youth Media Camp is held and camp itself is structured around the identities of the students: that of the Ojibwe tribal member and the science student. Every participant in the camp is part of a video production team whose objective is to produce a science related news story that becomes part of a combined multi- media WLCO Science Report. At the camp, the video production process itself becomes a vehicle for story telling and science skill development. Every story focuses on a culturally significant resource and the experts interviewed in the videos are community- based scientists and respected elders.

Time: 2 p.m.

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart  (Directed by John Ferry, Santa Barbara, CA, 83 min.)

Sitting Bull: A Stone in My Heart makes extensive use of first-person narration, taken from Sitting Bull’s own words, to present the viewer with an intimate portrait of one of America’s legendary historical figures in all his complexities as a leader of the great Lakota/Dakota Sioux Nation and as a human being.  This is a powerful journey into the life and spirit of a legendary figure of whom people have often heard but don’t really know; a true American and a powerful father of this land…one that Americans must all come to know to reconcile their past and their future.

Time: 4 p.m.

133 Skyway (Directed by Randy Redroad, Ontario, 22 min.)

133 Skyway is a visceral reflection of urban homelessness, survival and friendship. Derek Miller plays Hartley, a homeless man trying to get his guitar out of hock.  As his health fails, Hartley relies on a troubled friend and the kindness of a lonely pawnshop employee.

Director Randy Redroad will be here to talk about his film.

Time: 4:30 p.m.

I’m Not the Indian You Had in Mind (Directed by Thomas King, Toronto, 5 min.)

Thomas King narrates this spoken word short that offers an insight into how First Nations people today are challenging old ideas and empowering themselves in the greater community.

Time: 4:45 p.m.

A Letter Home (Directed by Ernest Whiteman III, Chicago, 3 min)

A Letter Home “depicts a recent return to the reservation while the movie maker reads a letter from his father to his parents while he is away, re- enforcing that leaving home is generational, but also, the movie maker’s mother’s adage that no matter how far away you go, you will always return home.”

Native American Film Series – Film Series 2006-07

Documentaries at Augsburg:

Place: Science Building, room 123, 7:00-10:00 pm

January 30, 2007 

American Indian Homelands: Matters of truth, honor and dignity-immemorial. (Barry ZeVan, 2005)

Film Screening will be hosted by Cris Stainbrook, president of the Land Tenure

Association.

This award-winning documentary focuses on 120 years of tribal land loss due to federal Indian policy and how that loss still affects Native peoples today. Hosted by Sam Donaldson, the film recounts the recent history of Indian lands through personal narratives of those who have lived the reality of land loss.

February 28

A Tattoo on my Heart: The Warriors of Wounded Knee 1973 (Charles Abourezk and Brett Lawlor, 2004)

Film Screening will be hosted by Bill Means

A Tattoo on My Heart tells the dramatic and emotional story of the siege of Wounded Knee in 1973 in the words of those men and women who were there. “On February 27, 1973 traditional and AIM leaders chose another location to make a stand–the site of the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Cold, hungry, and armed only with hunting rifles, fake guns, and one AK-47, they held out for 71 days against the US government. Over 500,000 rounds were exchanged between federal officers and Indians during the siege. Two Indians were killed, and several other wounded.”

March 14

Maria Tallchief (Sandy Osawa, 2007)

Hosted by Sandy Osawa.

Maria Tallchief is the untold story about the life and artistry of Maria Tallchief, who rose from an Indian community in Oklahoma to become America’s first prima ballerina. Her marriage and partnership with Ballanchine ignited the founding of the New York City Ballet. Please come and meet the filmmaker, Sandy Osawa, who will introduce the film and talk about her work as a Native American filmmaker.

New Voices in Native Media

Hosted by Indigenous Film and Media

Place: The Center for Independent Artists, 7:00-10:00 pm

4137 Bloomington Ave. South

at the Instituto de Cultrua Y Educacion

612-724-8392
Friday April 13 

6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception for filmmakers

7:00-9:00 p.m. Screenings:

Medical Animation (1.20 min, Mike Medicine Horse)

Hybrid Medical Demo (2.45 min, Mike Medicine Horse)

Onenhohgwa’ (Corn Soup) (15 min, Torry Mendoza)

Plastic Warriors (16.40 min, Amy Tall Chief)

Neinoo (4.3 min, Missy Whiteman)

The Rocking Chair (6.38 min, Cineastas de Granda Nicaragua)

Saturday April 14 

7:00-9:00 p.m. Screenings:

Native Pride (7.40 min, PCTV “Avid! Summer 2006”)

The Women on the Streets (10 min, PCTV “Avid! Summer 2006”)

We and Me A Film About Us (16 min, Circle of Nations Students)

The Corse of Her Key (4 min, TVbyGirls)

Simone’s Dance (4.45 min, TVbyGirls)

Supul the Witch (4.30 min, TVbyGirls)

Mookibi (20 min, New Voices)

Remember When (5 min, New Voices)

Aftereffects (8 min, New Voices)

My Warrior (4 min, New Voices)

In Loving Memory (9 min, New Voices)

Indian Humor 2 (18 min, New Voices)

Gagey’s Life (4 min, New Voices)

Native American Voices
Native American Voices: Selections from the 7th Annual Fargo International Film Series

Place: Augsburg College

Science Building, Room 123

721 21st Avenue South

Time: 5 – 8 p.m.

Saturday May 12:

Waterbuster (79 min., J. Carlos Pienado)

Silent Thunder (27 min., Angelique Midthunder)

American Cowboys (47 min, Cedric and Tania Wildbill)

Sunday May 13:

Gesture Down (I Don’t Sing) (3.35 min, Cedar Sherbert)

Manoomin: The Sacred Food (3.10 min, Jack Pettibone Riccobono)

Mile Post 398 (110 min., Shanie and Andee De La Rosa)
Special Events
Mobile Media Showcase—

Traveling Film Series, Summer 2007

Indigenous Environmental Film Series—

Showings Nov. 5th-8, 2006 at the University of Minnesota West Bank
November 5, 6:30 pm

Trudell (the movie) with Guest Speaker John Trudell

West Bank, Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue South, Mpls

Reception to follow at the Wolves’ Den, 1201 East Franklin

November 6

6:30 pm, Be True to Your Self (Ain Dah Yung)

7:30 pm, Homeland (Bull Frog Films)

West Bank, Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue South, Mpls

November 7

6:30 pm, Ogitchidag Gikinwoamaagad

7:30 pm, Oil on Ice (Bull Frog Films)

West Bank, Willey Hall, 225 19th Avenue South, Mpls

November 8   

6:30 pm, Tobacco: A Gift of Choice (Shenandoah Films)

7:30 pm, Drumbeat of Mother Earth (Bullfrog Films)

West Bank, Anderson Hall 257 19th Ave. South, Mpls.

This special event is part of a collaborative event, Tobacco is Sacred, sponsored by Honor the Youth Organization, which includes the 1st Annual Hand Drum Competition (November 3-4).   For more information on the Hand Drum competition contact 612-722-1978.  For more information on the film events contact Marissa Carr (University of Minnesota Circle of Indigenous Nations) at 612-624-0243 or Elise Marubbio (Augsburg Native American Film Series) at 612-330-1523.

March 3

Screening with Filmmakers: 

Indigenous Films & Media  from South America

7-8 p.m. Screening of  Darini: Spiritual initiation of Xavante children ( Waisásse, 46 minutes, 2005).  Caimi Waiásse belongs to the central Brazilian Xavante.8-9 pm Screening of Sujuitaya Yosuu (The Liberation of Yosuu) (Palmer 2005)

David Hernández Palmar is Wayuu of Venezuela and Colombia border.

Following the screenings, the filmmakers will answer questions and reflect on their work and collaborations with others, both native and nonnative, concerning issues of authorship and agency, use of communication technologies, and how their work addresses contemporary issues and indigenous cultural identity on a local, national, and global scales.

January 25:

Red Road: Ocangu-sa the Barry Hambly Story

(Lost Heritage Productions, 2004). Presented by Sandra White Hawk, including a conversation with Barry (Whitecap) Hambly (Carry the Kettle First Nation, Saskatchewan) and Dan Petrusich, producer.

Red Road tells the story of Barry Hambly’s life in Canadian foster care, his adoption by the Hambly’s, and his search for his birth parents. This controversial and emotional story, told from Barry’s point-of-view, grew out of Barry’s desire to “write the story of his life” and his association with producer, Dan Petrusich. Tonight’s film will be presented by Sandra White Hawk, Director of First Nations Orphan Association, and include a video-cam interview with Barry Hambly and Dan Petrusich.

February 22:

Two films by White Mountain Apache filmmaker Dustinn Craig:
I Belong to This (2003)–from the PBS special Matters of Race Home. 

Film Screenings will be followed by a video-cam conversation with filmmaker.

I Belong to This is the final film in the 2003 PBS special Matters of Race. It is filmmaker Dustinn Craig’s personal look at culture and heritage. Dustinn Craig, a White Mountain Apache, lives in Tempe, Arizona with his wife Velma, a Navajo, and their four children. The couple considers what aspects of their cultural heritage they would like to pass on to their children.

Home

Home focuses on tribal members from a variety of tribes in Arizona and New Mexico, including Apache, O’odham, Pueblo, Yaqui who talk about what their land and the concept of home means to them.

March 29:

Honoring Our Voices (Judi Jeffrey, 1992).

Film Screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Marlene Helgemo, Pastor at All Nations Indian Church; Ernest M. Whiteman III, Director of First Nations Film and Video, and Stephanie Autumn of Reducing Rural Violence. Honoring Our Voices is a short film about empowerment, healing, and tradition. Sharing their stories about recovery and healing, six Native women of different ages and backgrounds talk about the choices they have made to overcome the hardships of family violence and end the cycle of abuse and silence (Film synopsis). Our panelists: Marlene Helgemo, Ernest Whiteman III, and Stephanie Autumn bring their own stories, strategies, and wisdom to the conversation begun by the film.

Films at The Center for Independent Artists: 7:00 10:00

4137 Bloomington Ave. South

at the Instituto de Cultura y Educacion

612-724-8392

April 21:

New Voices in Native Media Part I— Emerging works by Native American filmmakers. *Reception from 6-7: Come meet the filmmakers. Films from 7-9

• Hear Our Voices  (Shawnee Seelye, Caroline Buckananga, and Cliff Bahma, 2005) 2:34 min— This short introduction by young Native Artists from the Four Directions Charter School sets the tone for the films by youth producers.
• The Spirit Within Us (LaShae Brooks, 2005)   4:13 minutes. The Spirit  Within Us is a celebration of nature and LaShae’s life in Nett Lake Village.  LaShae is a member of the Boise Forte Nation.
• A New day in A New Life (Nicole Auginash, 2005) 5:10 minutes. Nicole, also from Four Directions Charter School, portrays the point of view of her baby sister, who was born with heart problems and had to undergo surgery.
• dibishka bimaashid noodin: We Listen to Our Elders (The Students of Project Preserve, 2004) 3:04 minutes. This poetic mix of imagery and voice acts as an introduction to a longer set of interviews with elders from the Red Lake Nation.  The location is Red Lake Highschool.
• Keepers of the Stronghold Dream (Tiana LaPointe, 2004) 12:19. Tiana’s video documentary examines the history of a massacre that took place in the Badlands of the Pine Ridge Reservation in the late 1800s.   It is the beginning of a longer project Tiana is producing for the Lakota Nation.
• Maji-ishiwebizi Jibwaa-mino-ishiwebizi—“He Behaves Badly—Before He Behaves Well” (Students of Project Preserve, 2005) 20:40 minutes. This 20 minute film tells the story of a young man lost in alcoholism and rejected by his family.  He finds his way back to his family and life through the love of his grandparents and sister.
• Undefeated (Tom Cain, 1995)—this is an older film but I show it in conjunction with the others we just saw from Red Lake.  Tom Cain worked at Red Lake High School as a video instructor in 1995.  This film about the basketball team is particularly telling of the sense of community and strength of Red Lake.   The team won the championship the following year.
• Sunshine (Wenonah Wilms and Elizabeth Day, 2005)  7:32 minutes. This is a joint collaboration between writer Wenonah Wilms (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior) and Elizabeth Day (Leech Lake).  Elizabeth works with IFP Minnesota.
• Half of Anything (Jonathan S. Tomhave, 2005) 25 minutes. Jonathan is the second graduate of the Native Voices Graduate Documentary Program at the U of Washington.  This film asks the question “What is a REAL Indian?” of four participants—Christina Entrekin, Sherman Alexie, Deborah Bassett, and John Trudell.

April 28:

Native American Voices I–Selections from the 6th Annual Fargo International Film Festival.

• Reservation War Parties, directed by Angelique Midthunder, Santa Fe, NM (13 minutes) WINNER Fargo International Film Festival’s best Native American Voices Narrative.
• Mohawk Girls, directed by Tracey Deer, New York, NY (53 minutes)

April 29:

Native American Voices II-Shorts from the 6th Annual Fargo International Film Festival

• • Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, directed by Roberta Grossman, Los Angeles, CA (88 minutes) WINNER Fargo International Film Festival’s best Native American Voices Documentary
  • Manoomin, directed by Teresa Konechne, Ponsford, MN (22 minutes)

 

Film and Art at Augsburg’s Gage Gallery

located on the second floor of the Lindell Library,

First Building South of Riverside on the West side of 22nd Street

May 20-July 7:

Art and Video Exhibition Works by Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman.

 

May 20. 4:00-6:00 pm

Opening Gallery Talk with Jonathan Thunder and Missy Whiteman

For more information on film events and making donations, please call Elise Marubbio at 612-330-1523

Film Series sponsored in part by:The Circle Newspaper, (612) 722-3692; Independent Indigenous Film Minneapolis; Fargo International Film Festival; the Ho Chunk Nation; the Upper Sioux Community; and Augsburg College, including American Indian Studies, American Indian Student Services, The Augsburg Historical Society, Anne Pederson Women’s Resource Center, Women’s Studies.

Wednesday February 23: River People: Behind the Case of David Sohappy 

Presented by Joe Underhill-Cady, River Rat and Professor of Political Science

This is the story of David Sohappy, a native American spiritual leader who was sentenced to a five-year prison term for selling 317 salmon out of season. For twenty years Sohappy has fished in open defiance of state and federal fishing laws. He claims he has an ancestral right to fish along Oregon’s Columbia River. As a result, he has become a symbol of resistance for indigenous people of the Northwest United States and beyond.

River People explores the historic conflict over the resources of the Columbia and the political controversy involving fishing rights and the right to religious freedom.

Sponsored by: Augsburg College Native American Film Series, Upper Sioux Community, Independent Indigenous Film Minneapolis, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, Dean’s Office, Center for Teaching and Learning-Project Development Grant, American Indian Studies, Augsburg Historical Society, Film Program, English Department, Deb Redmond, Women’s Resource Center, Women’s Studies, American Indian Student Services and the Augsburg Student Activities Council. Continue reading “2004-2005 Film Series” →