Gordon Tootoosis
Pub. Date
2007.
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...
2) Big bear
Pub. Date
2011, 1998
Description
The Cree tribe of Western Canada were a happy people living a prosperous and harmonious existence. But in the late 1800's, the government proposed a treaty to Chief Big Bear that required them to take a reserve and lose the land that gave them their freedom. Big Bear, a gentle yet stubborn leader, refused the offer. While he continued to resist the government, the younger Cree men started to retaliate. Big Bear tried to warn them of the seriousness...
4) Cowboy Run
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A cross-country chase ensues after two men (David Hasselhoff, Gordon Tootoosis) are taken hostage, then are mistaken for robbers.
6) The Doe Boy
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
This coming-of-age films tells the story of Hunter, a half Cherokee with hemophilia (a "white man's disease"), whose teen angst is compounded by his confusing cultural identity. With an overprotective mother and a distant father, Hunter learns from his grandfather the courage to find the love he desperately seeks.
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Detective Conk Adams is haunted by past military experiences and his role as guardian for his mother who is hospitalized on life-support. Conk teams up with a young archaeologist, Catherine, who is hiding a critical condition that haunts her as well. The unlikely pair soon develop a bond as they attempt to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumored to have curative powers." --Container.
10) Bear with me
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild, thinking they'll never see Masha again. Three years go by, and Emily has gotten lost deep in the wild forests of the Pacific Northwest. Cold, frightened and alone in the gathering darkness, she falls and is knocked unconcious. When she awakens, Emily is amazed to see that a large brown bear has kept her warm and dry...
11) Bear with me
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
An orphaned bear cub is adopted by little Emily and her family. They name the cub Masha, raise her and release her back into the wild, thinking they'll never see Masha again. Three years go by, and Emily has gotten lost deep in the wild forests of the Pacific Northwest. Cold, frightened and alone in the gathering darkness, she falls and is knocked unconscious. When she awakens, Emily is amazed to see that a large brown bear has kept her warm and dry...
12) Coyote summer
Pub. Date
c1996
Description
Callie goes from angry teen to confident young woman when she's sent from New York to her aunt and uncle's Coyote Arrow Ranch in Utah for the summer. She and her friend Rafe rescue an abused stallion, hide him in the hills, and train him for the upcoming Crown Invitational.
13) Spirit rider
Pub. Date
2007, c1998
Description
"After the untimely death of his mother, it seems that Johnny Three Bears must leave the comforts of his home and move to the Ojibwe reservation with his grandfather. Not having seen his grandfather since he was two years old, it was the last thing Johnny wanted, but Grandpa has a plan for getting Johnny's attention. The two set out on an adventure to capture and tame a wild stallion, and Johnny quickly learns to appreciate his grandfather's wisdom...
14) Big Bear
Pub. Date
2011
Description
The story of Big Bear, the real life Cree chief who campaigned for his people and their land against the Canadian government in the 1870s and 1880s.
Series
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Dan Candy's law (1974, 93 min., b&w, full screen): A Canadian officer is in pursuit of an Indian fugitive named Almighty Voice. Not only has Almighty Voice been accused of stealing livestock from the government, he is now wanted for murder.
Any gun can play (1968, 95 min., col., widescreen): After a gang leader gets away with a million in gold from a train robbery, he is hunted by a bounty hunter, a bandit, and a banker. Once the loot is hidden away,...
16) 500 nations
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabitated North America for over 15,000 years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.
17) Lone star
Series
Criterion collection volume 1202
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
A keen observer of America's social fabric, writer-director John Sayles uncovers the haunted past buried beneath a small Texas border town in this sprawling neo-western mystery. When a skeleton is discovered in the desert, lawman Sam Deeds, son of a legendary local sheriff, begins an investigation that will have profound implications both for him personally and for all of Rio County, a place still reckoning with its history of racial violence. Sayles's...