Fast Runner Triology FREE

Fast Runner Triology FREE

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The Fast Runner Trilogy Video on Demand (VOD)

Three unique Inuit films expressing the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view.
“A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times review of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, 2002.

Children Hangmen

"Four Generations of the Lakota Wisdom Keepers. Lakota people

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Two Plus Two or Why Indians Flunk

All right, class, let's see who knows what two plus two is.  Yes,
Doris?
I have a question.  Two plus two what?
Two plus two anything.
I don't understand.
Ok, Doris, I'll explain it to you.  You have two apples and you get two more.
   How many do you have?
Where would I get two more?
From a tree.
Why would I pick two apples if I already have two?
Never mind, you have two apples and someone gives you two more.
Why would someone give me two more, if she could give them to
someone who's hungry?
Doris, it's just an example.
An example of what?
Let's try again-you have two apples and you find two more.  Now
how many do you have?
Who lost them?
YOU HAVE TWO PLUS TWO APPLES!!!! HOW MANY DO YOU
HAVE ALL TOGETHER?????
Well, if I ate one, and gave away the other three, I'd have none left, but
I could always get some more if I got hungry from that tree you were
talking about before.
Doris, this is your last chance-you have two, uh, buffalo and you
get two more.
   Now how many do you have?
It depends.  How many are cows and how many are bulls, and is any
of the cows pregnant?
It's hopeless!  You Indians have absolutely no grasp of abstractions!
Huh?
-Beverly Slapin, Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children

Go, Ghost, Go

Go, Ghost, Go
At this university upon a hill,
I meet a tenured professor
Who's strangely thrilled
To list all of the oppressors --
Past, present, and future -- who have killed.
Are killing and will kill the indigenous.
O, he names the standard suspects --
Rich, white, and unjust --
And I, a red man, think he's correct,
But why does he have to be so humorless?
And how can he, a white man, fondly speak
Of the Ghost Dance, the strange and cruel
Ceremony
That, if performed well, would have doomed
All white men to hell, destroyed their colonies,
And brought back every dead Indian to life?
The professor says, "Brown people
From all brown tribes
Will burn skyscrapers and steeples.
They'll speak Spanish and carry guns and knives.
Sherman, can't you see that immigration
Is the new and improved Ghost Dance?"
All I can do is laugh and laugh
And say, "Damn, you've got some imagination.
You should write a screenplay about this shit --
About some fictional city,
Grown fat and pale and pretty,
That's destroyed by a Chicano apocalypse.
"The professor doesn't speak. He shakes his head
And assaults me with his pity.
I wonder how he can believe
In a ceremony that requires his death.
I think that he thinks he's the new Jesus.
He's eager to get on that cross
And pay the ultimate cost
Because he's addicted to the indigenous.
Sherman Alexie - Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian

The Horse Dance

Father, paint the earth on me.
Father, paint the earth on me.

Father, paint the earth on me.
A nation I will make over.
A two-legged nation I will make holy.
Father, paint the earth on me.
~Black Elk, Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux

Well Adjusted to Babylon: How Sad

(kiotd-download)

i pledge allegiance

to the united ban on warfare

for which it stands

the return of indian land

one nation

under god we trust

in nature's law

to liberate itself

from hefty injustice

for all

i pledge allegiance

to the future

of elevated children

everywhere.

and the reduction

of global warming

and unrest

all nations

under one indispensible

and self government

and plenty

for all.

_

(mhm).

The Story of Stuff (n8v proverbs redux)

This story is missing a 'beginnings history', yt supremacy and root-cause solutions, (ita funda-mentally n8v amerikan / afrikan ourstory- fi'dem say ‘the big picture’) and above all it is missing culture (no subtle music for example). But this video is still an excellent work (a master work) of information design: high resolution (super-dense units of teaching thru her narrative) and all within the readers immediate eye-span. If you have 20 minutes, watch this (brin 'pon side an adult, young adult or teenager ...the very young already know this implicitly). Black Folk offa build proppah verzshun in our community centers or schools. Idren, pls put your voice below: responds. Awo.

N8V Spirit awo.

“Sometimes they have to kill us. They have to kill us, because they can't break our spirit.”
~Jimmy Looks Twice, (Bro. John Trundell, Thunderheart Film)

Mashpee Pow Wow

This summer makes idren's 7th (formal) year of both celebrating alternatives to U.S. Holydazes and not celebrating U.S. Holydazes. Each fourth of youlie, ini spend time wi n8v bruddah/sistah. Every year ini see somethings that am supposed to see, needed to see. This year, at their 83rd Pow Wow, there were four especially memorable experiences. One, the Gombey dancers-Bermudian afro-amerN8Vs returned. Two, afro-n8v brothers and sisters, young & old came again -dem ah caryee da ways of de crown & idren saw it. Three, brother Annawon spoke some necessary words about 711 & 'rules' that i needed to hear. Four, sister Lorin, made a upspirit gesture during a yut's dance that struck me in my heart (last 'money' dance idren danced was with Fon of Mankon visit 2 winters ago-bconx live). Pure livity.

Chief Yellow Lark, Lakota Prayer

Oh, Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds.

And whose breath gives life to all the world.

Hear me! I am small and weak.

I need your strength and wisdom.

Let me walk in beauty, and make my eyes

Ever hold the red and purple sunset.

Make my hands respect the things you have made.

My ears sharp to hear your voice.

Make me wise so that I may understand

The things you might teach me.

Let me learn the lessons you have hidden

In every leaf and rock.

I seek strength, not to be greater than my brother.

But to fight my greatest enemy, myself.

Make me always ready to come to you

With clear hands and straight eyes.

So when life fades, as the fading sunset.

My spirit may come to you without shame.

Great Spirit,give us hearts to understand;

Never to take from creation's beauty more than we give;

Never to destroy wantonly for the furtherance of greed;

Never to deny to give our hands for the building of earth's beauty;

Never to take from her what we cannot use.

Give us hearts to understand

That to destroy earth's music is to create confusion;

That to wreck her appearance is to blind us to beauty;

That to callously pollute her fragrance is to make a house of stench;

That as we care for her she will care for us.

We have forgotten who we are.

We have sought only our own security.

We have exploited simply for our own ends.

We have distorted our knowledge.

We have abused our power.

Great Spirit, whose dry lands thirst,

help us to find the way to refresh your lands.

Great Spirit, whose waters are choked with debris and pollution,

help us to find the way to cleanse your waters.

Great Spirit, whose beautiful earth grows ugly with mis-use,

help us to find the way to restore beauty to your handiwork.

Great Spirit, whose creatures are being destroyed,

help us to find a way to replenish them.

Great Spirit, whose gifts to us are being lost

in selfishness and corruption,

help us to find the way to restore our humanity.

Dave Chappelle - Native Americans

Pachamama

Bolivia’s new constitution empowers indigenous majority

[ yes they can...for real ]

...The previous constitution officially recognized and upheld Catholicism, the new document recognizes the Christian God as equally as the Andean Pachamama (Mother Earth), a central figure for various indigenous religions across the Andes. ( more )

Stop Doses fi yuts dem dey POWd

Bartering