The Native American Political Leadership Program at GWU is a FULL scholarship program open to qualified Native Alaskan, Native Hawaiian, and Native American students who are interested in politics and campaigning

This is our first promotional video created for our immersion school and program. Today we now have 40 students and have come along ways since then! A new video is in the works so stay tuned...

Active, Motivate and Empower Native Vote Washington Getting out the Vote"

2008 North American Indigenous Games

Indian Pride television series, intro to episode on economic development.

Pala Indian Reservation

Market trailer for the new movie Rez Bomb set on and around Pine Ridge Indian reservation starring Tamara Feldman, Trent Ford, Russell Means & Chris Robinson as Jaws, Moses Brings Plenty, Tokala Clifford, Arlette Loud Hawk

Mary Kim Titla on Arizona Native News, hosted by Linda White Wolf. Posted with permission from AZTV.

Jim Thorpe famous Native American Baseball player

An inspiring account of an American Indian women who pursued higher education and looks at the tragic past of her ancestors who were forced into boarding schools to assimilate into American culture.

Cherokee Morning Song - Native AmericanI've had this song for a couple of years. I wanted to load it because it's beautiful. I hope you like it too.For what it's worth, just to be clear, the images in this video are from many tribes.

Native American Hollywood Filmmakers discuss Natives in films past and present. These interviews are from my Documentary from 2006. A Native Roscoe Production.

loved this! it saved the otherwise disastrous Richard Pryor show, for me.. worthwhile comedy from an *actual* American..

A documentary about the seventh generation's role in preserving the culture, traditions an environment of Red Lake Nation

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This week Inside USA travels across America to speak to the Lakota Sioux, the Western Shoshone, and the Navajo. The Native American voting block in swing states like Arizona and New Mexico can be crucial. But what happens when Native Americans want to opt out of the US altogether?Inside USA investigates. [More] [Less]

Writer/ Director/ Cinematographer: Hillary AbeCamera: Sony HVR-V1U - HDVThe Tetuma people (a.k.a. the Lakota Nation) have been fighting over their lands in the longest legal battle in the history of the United States. Never having ceded land, the Lakota hold legal title to a vast swath of land promised to them by the treaties of 1851 and 1868*. This territory of 'The Great Sioux Nation' encompasses several states including parts of Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota. At the heart of this land is a sacred space called 'the Black Hills'. Despite being offered millions of dollars in monetary compensation for the illegal taking of the Black Hills, the Lakota have never ceded claim to the heart of their culture and history. At the radix of this clash between Western society and Lakota epistemology, ideas surrounding philosophy unfairly compete for the attention of the dominant culture. Notions of property, history, creation, religion, science, metaphysics, family, economy, government are at the core of this dispute. It is impossible for Native cultures to assert an argument that addresses Western logic because they have not and do not belong to traditional Euro-American thought. Thus, when the Black Hills are said to be 'sacred' in English, perhaps it does not imply the type of relationship the Lakota mean when they say sacred. Just as you'll see in the film, the Lakota way of addressing 'dirt' or 'soil' simply doesn't match up. One word can imply the rift in philosophical logic that exists between two cultures and the politics of translation.In a divide this deep, cultural relativism cannot prevail. Indigenous thought which has evolved and changed throughout the course of thousands of years is not considered legitimate. Understanding the way which Indigenous people have chosen to interact with their surroundings illuminates a sense of deliberate purpose. That is what Western society cannot see or admit - the legitimacy of a body of thought not attributed to the individual but to the collective. This is what drives the landscape - the conflict, found among Indigenous peoples all over the world and the governments that have sought to contain them. At the core is a gap between Western understanding and Indigenous worldviews. The Western hemisphere exemplifies a wealth of knowledge that offers completely different notions of property and space, culture and freedom. Because we cannot see into each other, the problem goes on. These cirumstances dictate the fundamental problem facing the Lakota today. "A Good Way" attempts to show the tip of the iceberg in Indigenous logic - a way of thinking that is not completely understood by Euro-American tradition. That misunderstanding has been used as an excuse to exploit Indigenous peoples all over the globe. We must communicate our message: If one can see through the translation, an understanding can develop that will force us to treat each other with mutual respect. That means the right to adopt the cultural, political and economic means of sovereignty to overcome the colonial project. *Article VI, clause 2 of the U.S. constitution states, "...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land..." Treaty land cannot be taken by eminent domain or compromised by the powers of states of the union. [More] [Less]

3 individuals shoot at Riverside County Sheriff's Deputies responding to a call of shots fired leaving 1 dead in a shootout.

Active, Motivate and Empower Native Vote Washington Getting out the Vote"

Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff sits down with reporter Kitty Alvarado and speaks out for the first time about Public Law 280 and what he won't compromise on with The Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians.

A New Jersey Boy Scout troop was rescued by Native Americans in the Grand Canyon during flash flooding, then the National Guard picked them up in a helicopter. Harry Smith reports.

Like all other Indian tribes in the United States, the Cherokee have the right to grant citizenship to individuals with at least one Indian ancestor. The Freedmen controversy has generated a great deal of misinformation. Some members of Congress are using these falsehoods to justify legislation that would terminate the Cherokee Nation. Threats of termination by Congress set a dangerous precedent. Please, consider the facts, understand the controversy, and let the courts decide. [More] [Less]

Federal Judge Rules US Government Owes Group of Native Americans $455 Million for Unpaid Royalties on Drilling for Oil and Gas We speak to Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff in what was the largest class-action lawsuit against the US government. The Native American plaintiffs were seeking $47 billion, the total amount of lost royalties since 1887. [More] [Less]