Adam Beach
Author
Language
English
Description
Sherman Alexie is one of our most gifted and accomplished storytellers and a treasured writer of huge national stature. His first novel in ten years is the hilarious and tragic portrait of an orphaned Indian boy who travels back and forth through time in a charged search for his true identity. With powerful and swift, prose, Flight follows this troubled foster teenager--a boy who is not a "legal" Indian because he was never claimed by his father--as...
3) Skinwalkers
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
"Detective Leaphorn trusts hard facts. Officer Chee trusts ancient tradition. Their beliefs will be tested as they try to catch a mysterious killer." --container.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Two Navajo policemen search for the truth behind the disappearance of an anthropologist suspected of selling ancient Indian artifacts on the black market, delving into the underworld of illegal archaeological excavations and Navajo superstition and lore.
5) Coyote waits
Publisher
PBS DVD Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
In this adaptaton of Tony Hillerman's novel, Navajo police detective Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee solve a modern murder and a bank robbery supposedly committed by Butch Cassidy.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Victor and Thomas have lived their entire lives on the same Indian Reservation but couldn't be more different. When Victor is called away, it's Thomas who comes up with the money to pay for his trip. The catch: Victor has to take Thomas along for the ride.
Publisher
Mongrel Media
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
Hollywood has an impressive track record, one that spans more than 4,000 films, of blatantly misrepresenting Native people and their cultures. Featuring interviews with filmmakers and activists such as Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch and Russell Means, Reel Injun delves into the fascinating history of the Hollywood Indian with razor-sharp insight and humor, tracing its checkered cinematic evolution from the silent film era to today.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
11) Windtalkers
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006.
Language
English
Description
A battle-weary Marine Sergeant guards and ultimately befriends a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code.
13) Dance me outside
Publisher
Video Service Corp
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
When the Kidabanessee Reservation in northern Ontario is shocked by a brutal murder of one of the residents, four teenagers find their friendships put to the ultimate test. The struggle to become men and women becomes entangled with a fight for justice as they find their friendships and romances maturing into something unexpected.
14) The new mutants
Publisher
20th Century Studios
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five young people who demonstrate special powers are brought to a secret institution to undergo treatments they are told will cure them of the dangers of their powers. Invited by Dr. Cecilia Reyes to share their stories about when their powers first manifested, the five ₁patients₂ come to understand that they are in a class of people called mutants, who have historically been marginalized and feared.
15) Spirit rider
Series
Publisher
All Things Family
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
A teenaged boy who has been in foster homes for ten years, is placed back on his family's reservation with his grandfather, where he struggles to fit in.
17) Hostiles
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his family through dangerous territory.
Publisher
Dreamworks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
The story of the five Marines and one Navy corpsman that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima. When Joe Rosenthal's photograph of the event becomes a symbol of hope for the families at home, the three surviving men are pulled from combat and sent on a tour across America to raise desperately-needed bond money. It is a trip that brings out the truths of both that symbolic act, and of their...
19) Suicide Squad
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined that only a secret group of despicable individuals with nothing to lose can avert a potential apocalypse. So, she has assembled the world's most dangerous super villains, given them a powerful arsenal of weapons, and sent them off on a suicide mission.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
By 1876, most of the nation's American Indians had been forcibly relocated to reservation land. In the Dakota Territory, Red Cloud had settled his people on the great Sioux Reservation, becoming wards of the government. Other Sioux leaders saw this as defeat and continued to live in the traditional way, with legendary resistance. Then an economic depression struck, and gold was discovered in the Black Hills--on Sioux land. In this film, the lives...