Mick's father Mark, mysteriously shows up to smooth out some old bumps. Meanwhile Hank and Mick begin to bond, and an impromptu wrestling match becomes the main event at Josie's surprise birthday party.
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.
Sarain and Kris catch up with Water Walker Josephine Mandamin during her 10,900 mile walk around the Great Lakes and visit with Artist/Activist Christi Belcourt in Elliot Lake. On Georgina Island, Kris and Sarain witness the results of the restoration project of Gerties Creek supervised by Environmentalist Kerry-Ann Charles.
Gracey is commissioned by Landyachtz to shoot photos of their team in the Landyachtz World Cup Race. Riders will reach speeds up to 70 km/h and face a gnarly 1/6 km road that features a 1000 foot vertical drop and seven 180 degree hairpin turns with 12 corners.
A rotating compilation of music videos featuring diverse talents of Native American & World Indigenous cultures. Different genres such as hip hop, rap, dance, rock, and many more are featured on The AUX.
It's not unheard of to have deer in a city, but the herds of deer in Richmond Park, London, are truly something to gawk at. A local butcher and a community garden offer some splendid treats to help Dan's dish. Let's hope he doesn't make too big of a mess in his mummy's kitchen. Oh dear!! Bon appetite!
A 2017 unique live concert special that celebrates contemporary and traditional Native American music, as well as pays homage to all the Indigenous Tribes of North America. The featured artists are Mary Youngblood, Thirza Defoe, Tony Redhouse, Jana Mashonee, Alex Beeshiglaii, Sana Christian, and The Sampson Brothers Native American dancers. Also, a special interview with actor/musician Wes Studi.
A documentary featuring the participants, vendors, and viewers from 3 of Southern California's Pow Wows. The program presents voices from every facet of the community to invite viewers to experience the emotional and dramatic underpinnings of what it means to be a Native American in this modern age. What forces continue to drive us back to the pounding medicine of the drums and dance on the arena floor?
Looking Toward Home is a one-hour documentary profiling the increasing number of Native Americans leaving the reservation for life in cities areas such as Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The life and times of urban Indians are shown primarily through the eyes of these individuals as they attempt to maintain their cultural identity while living away from the culturally nurturing climate of the tribal reservation. Narrator, Conroy Chino begins the urban Indian journey from relocation to current issues facing native people in urban environments. He describes the importance of community building, health care, education, and cultural identity while addressing the issue of overcoming community invisibility.
ICT News delivers daily news and analysis about Native America and global Indigenous communities. Stories are reported from bureaus in Phoenix, Washington D.C. and Anchorage.
The participants learn about style and fashion to accommodate their new figures.
Teepee knits a sweater; Teepee goes skating for the first time.
Keeping walang, staying healthy can be a lot of fun ana. Waabiny, playing and eating moordtij mereny, good food are two ways to keep walang every day.
This episode is filled with physical challenges: Tiga and cohorts keep trying to reach their goal for Jumping Jacks, Jason and Jodie build and climb a make-believe mountain, elders paddle hard in racing canoes, and a robin learns to sing his song.
Pam persists in putting on her pants, which are now too small. Despite the discomfort she feels, she has no desire to put on bigger pants. Viola sees that she is afraid to grow up. And it's true, she doesn't want things to change. When she meets Cuckoo the Snake, she realizes that growing up means growing stronger. And it's also by seeing her moult that she'll become convinced that we're much more comfortable in clothes that fit us.
When Randy arrives at Louis' house, he's given the task of the day, which is to get pitheses (bird) food for Mr. Charles. Katie thinks pitheses means fish. When they get to Mr. Charles' house, the kids find him outside, building a bird house. Mr. Charles tells them that he needs bird food, not fish food. Louis tells Randy that he needs to find a box for wanihta ikwa miska (lost and found) for the community centre. Katie thinks wanihta ikwa miska means hide and seek. Randy thinks that Louis wants to play hide and seek the next time there's an event at the community centre, and he wants a box to hide in.
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.
Raven and her puppet friends learn the Cheyenne word for "my younger sibling" along with additional Cheyenne phrases. Featured puppet skits include lessons about getting along with family, lying, and not being selfish. Justin and Flash get a surprise when they try to order a pizza.
Yuma gets involved in traditional dot painting, while in the city, Heath sets out to prove his step-sister, Kyanna, is in fact a memory-wiped alien.
Chef and instructor Ben Genialle creates a fusion of traditional Aboriginal and contemporary foods. He hunts duck, grouse, and snowshoe hare; and gathers skunk cabbage, gooseberries, and Oregon grapes near BC?s Shuswap Lake.
In this episode, Chef Kelly is in Va?tupu, Wallis and Futuna, to revisit the "Umu." For her revisit, she meets with Joseph, a pig farmer, as well as a taro producer, Nicolas.
ICT News delivers daily news and analysis about Native America and global Indigenous communities. Stories are reported from bureaus in Phoenix, Washington D.C. and Anchorage.
FNX NOW is the station's flagship news series and the first interstitial community engagement series created by the channel after its initial launch in 2012. This new half-hour block looks to house all the most recent FNX NOW interstitial segments and showcase them in one spot.
He?s baaa-aack! Maxime Talbot of the Philadelphia Flyers pays the boys a surprise visit and this time he has brought along his Stanley Cup winning buddy Pascal Dupuis of the Pittsburgh Penguins. The two NHL stars offer tips and pointers on the ice but also take part in a crazy afternoon away from the rink.
Gracey shoots the final race in the BMX Canada Cup Series and focuses her photos on Daina Tuchsherer - ranked first in Juniors and a hopeful for the next summer Olympics in the Women's category. Gracey knows that each race is only 30-40 seconds long her opportunity to get a good shot is definitely limited.
The Youth bond during a camping/canoe trip; Spiritual Advisor Shane Patterson teaches them about petro forms.
Juaquin gives step by step instructions on how to make a simple, decorative carry bag. Episode includes some basic sewing tips.
Simon Baker travels to Manitoba, in the heart of the Canadian Prairies, to see why the world's tenth largest lake is dying and how indigenous knowledge can provide a means to ensure its survival.
It's not unheard of to have deer in a city, but the herds of deer in Richmond Park, London, are truly something to gawk at. A local butcher and a community garden offer some splendid treats to help Dan's dish. Let's hope he doesn't make too big of a mess in his mummy's kitchen. Oh dear!! Bon appetite!
As part of American Experience's We Shall Remain, Arkansas's First People is featuring unique perspectives on American Indian cultural legacy, archaeological data, and interviews with modern tribal representatives of those who had and still have an impact on Arkansas.
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.
ICT News delivers daily news and analysis about Native America and global Indigenous communities. Stories are reported from bureaus in Phoenix, Washington D.C. and Anchorage.
A bomb call results in tragedy, and a Rama police officer urges greater contact between the police and their community.
Of the 30,000 children in ministry care across Canada, half are Aboriginal. Most of these children are removed not only from family, but from community and culture, and few are equipped to cope once they age out of the system. Meet some of the women, including BC's Representative for Children, Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, working to address this issue.
When a traumatized girl, who has been missing for 3 years, is dropped off by a stranger, Tara's obsession with Blackhorse clouds her judgment. What happened to this girl who will speak to no one but seems to find comfort in Tara? When the hospital reports that the girl has gone missing once again, Tara and Bob remain at odds over who is responsible. When Tara's judgment almost gets her partner killed Tara reconsiders her future, but a visit by the mysterious little girl convinces Tara she needs to stay for a greater purpose.
Art and Dan head to Nunavut for their first time! Their three-day journey includes a trip out on the open ice for some Greenland turbot, meeting the "Blue Eyed Inuk," Simon Keenainuk, a musician famous throughout the Arctic, and traveling on a komatik to ice fish for Arctic char.
Over the years, pipes, cradle boards, parfleches, and other ancestral artifacts from the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming have accumulated in museums, far from their place of origin. 'LIVED HISTORY' documents the creation of a high definition video 'virtual museum' of ancestral artifacts, currently stored in museum collections, for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes. The Wind River Virtual Museum is an attempt to preserve the observations of elders, whose numbers are diminishing rapidly on the Wind River Reservation.
This documentary celebrates the spectacular beadwork of the Northwest Plateau People. The film provides a rare opportunity to experience Plateau culture through the eyes and hearts of artists, who share their history, motivation, and the beadwork that plays an important role in binding their culture together. Native Plateau beadwork is part of the rich tapestry of American culture. Plateau culture is unique and its story of survival a quintessentially American story.
Sara Wiles began taking pictures of Northern Arapaho people as a social worker on the Wind River Reservation. The photos were a chronicle and a gift to Indian families; now they tour art galleries and museums across the country. Wiles retains her close ties to reservation friends and families, even as she breaks new ground in her effort to use photographs to tell the stories of people and cultures
A special LONGER, more in-depth look at experimental archaeologist Grant Goltz (of Lakeland PBS' documentary Birchbark Canoe). Goltz shares his theory, developed with others, of how pre-contact indigenous people of our area made multi-functional Blackduck pottery, with a group of First Nations Women from Winnipeg, Canada. While Goltz's hands-on discoveries often don't gain acceptance with established academia in the U.S., his experience and knowledge is greatly respected across the border by our neighbors to the North.