Kris joins Brandon Oolayou, Inuk from Frobisher Bay, on a seal hunt and Nellie Kusugak, Commissioner of Nunavut, shares what life is like in Nunavut. Sarain discusses issues of suicide in the North with Inuk Workshop Facilitator Adam Akpik of Embrace Life Council, an organization focusing on suicide prevention, intervention and post-intervention for Inuit youth in Iqaluit. Kris and Sarain explore the high frequency, high-tech world of Digital Media Warrior and Knowledge Transmitter Selena Mills in her Barrie home.
Tuscarora songwriter Jennifer Kreisberg sets out to write a song about the dispersal of the Skaru:re population following the Tuscarora War of 1710. She visits with artists in Six Nations to better understand the tradition and trails of Skaru:re songs.
This action packed episode kicks off with the St'at'imc Fountain Valley Xaxli'p First Nation declaring a state of emergency due to a dangerous rock slide closing a major road. Constable Mitch Thevarge responds to confusing reports of a man in crisis. Chief Officer Dee Doss-Cody reveals the impacts of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder on the job.
We meet Jordan Demeulemeester, one of underEXPOSED's own. He gives Tannis an inside look into a highly successful program, the First Nations Snowboard Team. And the whole gang goes on a moose hunt with Kookum.
Home to the largest First Nations population in Canada, Six Nations established a corporation to manage economic opportunities on behalf of their people. That effort now sees Six Nations invested in some of the largest wind and solar power plants in the nation.
Brandy starts her journey in Oregon in Portland where she learns about the Maker movement and craft beer. Then she travels to Albany to ride and carve at Albany's Historic Carousel Museum. Next she goes on an ATV excursion through Deschutes National Forest and learns to be a cattle rancher in Fossil. She finishes her trip in Pendleton where she learns how to make cowboy boots and visits the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.
Dan takes Art to Spain to show him some food customs of rural villagers. The hosts get to know a local family and are put to work with butchering, cleaning, and making sausages. They help cook a traditional outdoor meal of fresh pork cuts and goodies from the garden.
Opal Chavez is a Cheyenne elder who is married to Gerald Chavez, a Pueblo Cochiti. Together, they have forged out a happy life that has been tempered by mutual respect and a deep devotion to their traditions.
From his birth in the Bitterroot Mountains among the Salish Tribe, to his exploits as a warrior with the Lemhi Shoshone and Bannocks, Washakie was recognized early as an extraordinary person. But he made his historical claim to greatness in the second half of the 19th century, as chief of the Eastern Shoshone. He led the tribe in battle and in peace, and navigated the difficult negotiations with the U.S. government that eventually provided the Shoshone with a permanent homeland along the eastern slopes of the Wind River Mountains. The Documentary, funded in part by the Wyoming State Legislature, features a wealth of historical photographs and artwork, as well as aerial photography shot over the Wind River Indian Reservation. Research was conducted at the National Archives, the Smithsonian Institute and museums throughout the West.
In WATERBUSTER, filmmaker J. Carlos Peinado revisits his ancestral homeland in North Dakota to investigate the impact of the massive Garrison Dam project. Constructed in the 1950s by the Army Corps of Engineers, the dam destroyed a self-sufficient American Indian community, submerging 156,000 acres of fertile farmland and ranchland, and ultimately displaced Peinado's family and others at the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation. Peinado traces the footsteps of his maternal grandmother back to the reservation, where he learns more about the building of the Garrison Dam and the effects of the federal government's relocation policies upon sovereign Indian nations. Through interviews with elders, he begins to understand the proud and resilient nature of the Mandan-Hidatsa-Arikara Nation, their contributions to American culture and history, and their deep attachment to the harsh and storied landscape of the Northwestern prairie an attachment for which they paid a heavy price.
Country music star Armond Duck Chief shares his Blackfoot Nation's deep connection to horses as he sings about the complex lives of Indigenous cowboys. In this episode, we meet Blackfoot cowboy legend Alison Red Crow and relay racing star Travis Maguire.
The Youth have their final weigh-ins and recap their experience.
Teepee goes apple picking and bakes a pie for the first time.
Lots of Noongar mob love to koort kwobakin, to celebrate. It's so deadly getting together with moort and koorda, family and friends.
Smiles are important but they don't stay healthy by themselves. Though she likes to smile Bertie doesn't like to brush her teeth. The kids teach her why she needs to brush and show her what happens if you don't.
The friends are sure the creature following their boat is a lake monster but after their motor fails and they use their skills to capture it they discover it's the solution to getting them home. Important packages must be delivered by the friends but Joe is not able to run and jump through the forest as well as Nina and Buddy and feels he is not useful until Kookum helps him realize that his super seeing skill will save the day.
Little J can't wait to teach B Boy all about mutton birding - but B Boy is terrified. It's a big adventure going to Mutton Bird Island, and Little J can't wait to show B Boy the rookery with Uncle Mick. After B Boy sees a snake he's way too scared... until Little J takes him under his wing.
The Big Match looms - but footy mad Little J is out with an injury. It's the School Footy Match this week! Big Cuz reluctantly agrees to be the commentator, while Little J boasts he'll kick twenty goals. He's devastated when he breaks his arm at practice - now he can't play! But maybe Big Cuz can make him a radio star.
Amy, Casey and Theodore find themselves on an arctic adventure trying to help a young bear cub, named Keyush return home to his mom after he gets lost with them. The group uses Inukshuk markers as clues to find their way back home. The lesson learned is, always tell someone where you are going.
Missing sled dogs and a pile of homework are just a few of the things that Talon has to deal with before setting out for the trapline with his father Alphonse. Talon can't wait to go away for a week, but the exciting trip means lots of extra responsibility. He has to complete the schoolwork that he'll miss before leaving. While Talon struggles with a creative writing assignment, T-Bear and Mushom (grandfather) have trouble with the dog team. T-Bear incorrectly ties the dogs up, and they escape. Intense preparations and avoidable mishaps teach the children the importance of listening to elders and taking care with everything you do.
After ditching school, best friends Tomias and Dahlia have no choice but to fight fire with fire.
Sophia Stark has been cooking and baking since the age of six, she is inspired by her family and the American culinary legend Julia Child. She is very talented with a knife, can sing and is an artist. All of us on the set were very impressed and you will be too as she shares her Vanilla Cream Fruit Tart recipe.
In this episode, Chef Kelly is in Cacao and Larivot, French Guiana, to revisit the "Khao Pun Bun." For her revisit, she meets with Pomah, a farmer specilized in aromatic plants, as well as a Guianese shrimps fisherman, Tony.
CAP Producer Hawk Hartico sat down with the Johnson O'Malley (JOM) Program under the Cheyenne and Arapaho's Department of Education.
Once again this year, ex NHLer and Hit The Ice Head Coach John Chabot travels to the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships in Kahnawake to find the best hockey players our Nations have to offer. This year, rather than scouting fifteen players, John and his coaching staff are looking at inviting a total of 26 players.
Mason and Tannis meet sisters, Meghann and Spencer O'Brien. One is a talented rider who retired from her sport to pursue her love of Aboriginal weaving, the other, an X Games medalists on track for the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi.
The Youth have their final weigh-ins and recap their experience.
Terra Houska returns this week to demonstrate more details of straight dress making.
Lisa travels to Winnipeg, the Urban Aboriginal Capital of Canada. Is it a city on the rise or a one mired in racism and struggle? This episode features interviews with Sean McCormick, Waneek Horn Miller and Alan Greyeyes.
From an incredible "Spotted Lake" in British Columbia to a sacred waterfall in Washington State, Drew explores the people, ideas, and hallowed spaces linked to Aboriginal spirituality.
Ms. Thorn, San Diegan and of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians brings to her docuseries her native American experience; Her mother was an artist and was involved in the women's rights movement, while her father, part of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, was one of the first Native Americans to occupy Alcatraz in an effort to gain equal rights for the Native Americans living on reservations, who at the time weren't allowed to vote. In 2018, Thorn was elected as the chairwoman of the Rincon Economic Development Corporation of her tribe and has been on the board for 5 years. She oversees businesses that are owned by the tribe and is an active member of California chapter of the Native American Chamber of Commerce. This will be an immersive cultural experience: Native American Artists and their works which are truly the intersection of Fine Art and historical significance. As a content creator for the presentation of Fine Art as well as the critically-acclaimed docuseries Art of The City TV, she has captured the flavor and historical significance of Native American artistic relevance, and presents to the world the timely story of the cultural capital of the Indigenous people, a story that has always been on the right side of history and on the right side of Artistic Accomplishment; Illustrating Native American Art both as curating and illuminating through the lens of her knowledge and being.
This episode of "Indian Road" features a bio on Henrietta Mann, a story about Clinton's Mohawk Lodge, a look at Sooner Spectator's Native issue, a look at downtown OKC's Red Earth Museum, and info about Washita National Battlefield Historic Site.
This is the saga of the United Keetoowah Band, the first American Indian tribe to try and relocate across state lines, from Oklahoma to Arkansas, to reclaim their native land lost to them in 1828. The program is narrated by Jim Henson, a full blooded UKB, who tells the story from the Keetoowah perspective in both English and the Keetoowah language.
Fifty years after Horse Creek Girl's remains were found, a seemingly simple tribal identification project blossomed into a complex, multi-discipline study. As a result, we now have an idea of how the Horse Creek Girl may have lived and died, and we get a different look at early reservation history than we may be accustomed to.
Democracy Now! is an award-winning, independent, noncommercial, nationally-distributed public television news hour. Produced each weekday, Democracy Now! is available for public television stations free of charge.
CAP Producer Hawk Hartico sat down with the Johnson O'Malley (JOM) Program under the Cheyenne and Arapaho's Department of Education.
"Native Shorts presented by Sundance Institute's Native American and Indigenous Program" is a series that will feature short films produced, premiered or showcased at the Sundance Film Festival through its Native American and Indigenous Program, followed by a brief discussion with hosts Ariel Tweto (Flying Wild Alaska, Wipe-Out) an Inupiaq Eskimo from Unakleet Alaska and the Sundance Institute's own Bird Runningwater, a Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache.
Tara watches in shock as a gruesome apparition disappears into a freshly dug grave. Investigating further, Tara sparks outrage and threats when she digs up the consecrated grave and unleashes a super bug that spreads throughout Rabbit Fall. Will the mysterious little girl's gift to Tara help her stop the wide-spreading disease before it's too late?
Dan takes the bull by the horns, taking Art on tour of Ronda, Spain to a practice bullring where fighting bulls are raised. They meet a practicing matador and later cook up a meal in a unique restaurant situated under the bleachers of a real bullring!
Ms. Thorn, San Diegan and of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians brings to her docuseries her native American experience; Her mother was an artist and was involved in the women's rights movement, while her father, part of the Rincon Band of Luiseno Indians, was one of the first Native Americans to occupy Alcatraz in an effort to gain equal rights for the Native Americans living on reservations, who at the time weren't allowed to vote. In 2018, Thorn was elected as the chairwoman of the Rincon Economic Development Corporation of her tribe and has been on the board for 5 years. She oversees businesses that are owned by the tribe and is an active member of California chapter of the Native American Chamber of Commerce. This will be an immersive cultural experience: Native American Artists and their works which are truly the intersection of Fine Art and historical significance. As a content creator for the presentation of Fine Art as well as the critically-acclaimed docuseries Art of The City TV, she has captured the flavor and historical significance of Native American artistic relevance, and presents to the world the timely story of the cultural capital of the Indigenous people, a story that has always been on the right side of history and on the right side of Artistic Accomplishment; Illustrating Native American Art both as curating and illuminating through the lens of her knowledge and being.
The history and spirituality of the Indigenous People of the American Southwest are deeply rooted in the Land. Since the beginning of time, they have been stewards and protectors of their home lands, past and present. These places intimately connect the People and their beliefs to the natural world. No place is ever abandoned, the landscape is forever living. This is their story, of the Land and who they are.
"Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West" takes you in the field with eagle researchers in Wyoming as they strive to discover how the birds are adapting to the many challenges facing them, from climate change to sprawl, lead poisoning to energy development. Rappel into eagle nests; go behind the scenes at wildlife rehabilitation centers; and hear stories of Indigenous peoples' connections to the magnificent golden eagle.