WE SHALL REMAIN: PART 1 AFTER THE MAYFLOWER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This episode begins in March 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, when Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, negotiated with a ragged group of English colonists. The pale-skinned Pilgrim foreigners were in… Continue reading We Shall Remain: Part 1 After the Mayflower

INHABITANTS: INDIGENOUS PERSPECTIVES Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This beautifully crafted documentary follows five Native American communities as they restore their ancient relationships and management practices with the land. From deserts, coastlines, forests, mountains, and prairies, time-tested and sustainable practices of North America’s original inhabitants are becoming… Continue reading Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives

TOWN DESTROYER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Town Destroyer explores how we look at art and history during a time of racial reckoning. The story focuses on a passionate dispute over historic murals at a public high school depicting the life of George Washington: enslaver, General, land… Continue reading Town Destroyer

SKINWALKERS Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Detective Leaphorn trusts hard facts. Officer Chee depends on ancient tradition. Their beliefs will be tested as they try to catch a mysterious killer in this crime thriller. Faced with the murder of three medicine men, these Navajo police officials must… Continue reading Skinwalkers

DAWNLAND Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE! Dawnland is the untold story of Indigenous child removal in the US through the nation’s first-ever government-endorsed truth and reconciliation commission, which investigated the devastating impact of Maine’s child welfare practices on the Wabanaki people. Dawnland brings to light how getting to the… Continue reading Dawnland

IMAGINING THE INDIAN Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This award-winning documentary chronicles the movement to eliminate mascoting-the use and misappropriation of Native American names, logos, and mascots in sports, advertising, and beyond. It examines the origin and proliferation of the words, images, and gestures many Native people… Continue reading Imagining the Indian

ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This Inuit epic film will give you goosebumps as its uncanny tale of love, communal discord, and justice unfolds. Director Zacharias Kunuk has fashioned a cinematic masterpiece out of the shards of an Inuit myth about love, murder,… Continue reading Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

THE ONLY GOOD INDIAN Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Set in Kansas during the early 1900s, a teenage Native American boy is taken by force from his family to attend a distant “training” school to assimilate into White society. When he escapes to return to his family,… Continue reading The Only Good Indian

SMOKE SIGNALS Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This classic coming-of-age drama debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 1998. Ten years later, it was incorporated into the National Film Registry. Written, directed, and co-produced by Native Americans, Smoke Signals represents a milestone in Native filmmaking and representation.… Continue reading Smoke Signals

RUMBLE: INDIANS THAT ROCKED THE WORLD Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This documentary is a deep dive into the Indigenous foundations of rock. RUMBLE traces the melodies, rhythms, and beats of traditional Native music as they took different forms across the spectrum of 20th-century American rock. Some… Continue reading Rumble: Indians that Rocked the World

THE SILENT ENEMY Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!  The Silent Enemy (1930), an American silent film, attempts to tell a culturally valid story about the Ojibway tribe in the Canadian Northwest long before the advent of European influences. While progressive in many ways (including its early use of… Continue reading The Silent Enemy

BEING THUNDER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!  This contemporary documentary is about a young person whose gender identity is woven through their life in a Rhode Island Indigenous community. After performing his whole young life as a championship eastern war dancer, Sherenté Harris, at age 16, re-enters the… Continue reading Being Thunder

WE SHALL REMAIN: PART 1 AFTER THE MAYFLOWER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This episode begins in March 1621, in what is now southeastern Massachusetts, when Massasoit, the leading sachem of the Wampanoag, negotiated with a ragged group of English colonists. The pale-skinned Pilgrim foreigners were in… Continue reading We Shall Remain: Part 1 After the Mayflower

PENNACOOK RETRIBUTION - WHO SHALL JUDGE THE INDIANS NOW? Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   The documentary, written by Anne Jennison, reframes a moment in history through the eyes of the people who have lived on this land for over 12,000 years. In 1689, Major Richard Waldron was… Continue reading Pennacook Retribution – Who Shall Judge the Indians Now?

GATHER Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Sanjay Rawal’s documentary celebrates the Indigenous food sovereignty movement by following members of four tribes. They use their interests to work with community members to promote cultural traditions. Nephi Craig, a White Mountain Apache chef, is trying to combat food insecurity… Continue reading Gather

Anoki: More than a Photo-More than a Powwow Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   A young Nipmuc man who grew up as a talented Pow Wow singer with his brothers shares his love of Tradition, Family, Music, and the overwhelming challenges to maintain them. In a modern world… Continue reading Anoki: More than a Photo-More than a Powwow

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE WIGWAM Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   This talk by Jennifer Lee presents a historical overview of Indigenous life in the Connecticut River Valley before the European settlers arrived.  It contrasts differing world views between the Indigenous and European cultures. Her talk is visually… Continue reading Historical Perspectives from the Wigwam

THE WIND AND THE RECKONING  Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   It’s 1893. The Hawaiian Kingdom is overthrown by a Western power and an outbreak of leprosy engulfs the tropical paradise. The new government orders all Native Hawaiians suspected of having the foreign disease banished permanently to a… Continue reading The Wind and the Reckoning

REEL INJUN Indigenous Heritage Film Festival Feature Length Film   RESERVE YOUR SPOT HERE!   Reel Injun is a loving look at cinema through Indigenous eyes, those of director Neil Diamond. It traces the evolution of cinema’s depiction of Native people from the silent film era to today, with clips from hundreds of classic and… Continue reading Reel Injun