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Annie Mae Aquash (Mi'kmaq name Naguset Eask) (March 27, 1945 – mid-December 1975 [1] [2]) was a First Nations activist and Mi'kmaq tribal member from Nova Scotia, Canada. . Aquash moved to Boston in the 1960s and joined other First Nations and Indigenous Americans focused on education, resistance, and police brutality against urban Indigenous peo
Americans [were] not that interested in them". The documentary asserts that "America, struggling through the Great Depression, [needed] a new brand of hero". Movies like Stagecoach, which pitted cowboys against Indians and portrayed Native Americans as "vicious and bloodthirsty", became the Hollywood image of Indians until the 1970s.
The Native Americans is a three-part American television documentary miniseries that premiered on TBS on October 10, 1994. [1] The remaining two episodes aired on October 11 and 13, 1994. [ 2 ] Directed by John Borden , Phil Lucas and George Burdeau , the six-hour series explores the history of Native American cultures, with each hour of the ...
Native American migration to urban areas continued to grow: 70% of Native Americans lived in urban areas in 2012, up from 45% in 1970, and 8% in 1940. Urban areas with significant Native American populations include Rapid City, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, Denver, Phoenix, Tucson, Seattle, Chicago, Houston, and New York City. Many have lived in ...
The Trail of Broken Treaties (also known as the Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan [1] and the Pan American Native Quest for Justice [2]) was a 1972 cross-country caravan of American Indian and First Nations organizations that started on the West Coast of the United States and ended at the Department of Interior headquarters building at the US capital of Washington, D.C. Participants called for ...
Incident at Oglala is a 1992 American documentary film directed by Michael Apted and narrated by Robert Redford.The film documents the deaths of two Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, Jack R. Coler and Ronald A. Williams, on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on June 26, 1975.
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World is a 2017 Canadian documentary film directed by Catherine Bainbridge and co-directed by Alfonso Maiorana.The film profiles the impact of Indigenous musicians in Canada and the US on the development of rock music. [1]
We Shall Remain (2009) is a five-part, 6-hour documentary series about the history of Native Americans in the United States, from the 17th century into the 20th century. It was a collaborative effort with several different directors, writers and producers working on each episode, including directors Chris Eyre, Ric Burns and Stanley Nelson Jr. [1] Actor Benjamin Bratt narrated the entire series.