Hank and Josie struggle to keep their marriage a secret, as Mick announces he's quitting school and moving out. Hank attempts a lunchtime meet and greet between his kids and Josie at the cafe, which bombs, then convenes an inter-family bowling date, with even more disastrous results.
Drew meets the people that are reinventing capitalism on Native terms. He visits Canada's newest urban reserve, meets a Metis sash maker drawing his inspiration and works from indigenous South Americans, and witnesses how Aboriginal venture capital is opening doors.
Kris visits the Ojibwe Cultural Foundation on M'Chigeeng First Nation, an organization that houses their own artifacts and creates projects of repatriation, education and excavation. Sarain sits down with Jesse Unapik Mike, Moriah Sallaffie and members of the Qanak Collective to discuss the importance of a political and cultural hub for this small Inuit community in Iqaluit. Kris and Sarain get their groove on with Anishnaabe DJ & Techno Pow Wow Artist Classic Roots during a youth dance and music workshop at the Barrie Native Friendship Centre.
Alaska-based magazine, Mushing Magazine commissions Gracey to cover a world-class dog-sled event called Mushers Rendezvous. Gracey covers a musher named Carl Knudsen who comes from a family of mushers. Keeping up and getting in front of the sleds will be Gracey's biggest challenge.
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.
After a formal welcome at Smither's airport, Art and Dan are guided on a hunt by a Wetsuweten elder. Their aspirations to bag an elk are spoiled by a pair of cheeky black bears. All is not lost though thanks to a communal outpouring of generosity and Art's performance at an Aboriginal Day Festival. Micisok!
For thousands of years, traditional Inuit sports have been vital for surviving the unforgiving Arctic. Acrobatic and explosive, these ancestral games evolved to strengthen the mind, body and spirit within the community. "Games of the North" follows four modern Inuit athletes and reveals their unique relationship to the games as they compete across the North. As unprecedented changes sweeps across their traditional lands, their stories illuminate the importance of the games today.
SACRED STICK examines the historical, cultural, and spiritual aspects of lacrosse. From the ancient Maya to the world famous Iroquois Nationals team, this program explores the cultural diffusion and transmutation of a uniquely indigenous sport that, like Native people themselves, adapted and endured within the dominant culture. The thirty-minute film is intended for both a general audience, for whom lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the country, and a Native American-specific audience for whom lacrosse has deep cultural meaning.
Oklahoma is home to thirty-nine federally recognized tribes. Nowhere in North America will you find such diversity among Native Peoples, and nowhere will you find a more tragic history. Host Moses Brings Plenty (Oglala Lakota) guides this episode of Growing Native, on a journey to Oklahoma's past and present. What he discovers among the many faces of Oklahoma culture is the determination, values and respect that tribes have brought to this land, once called Indian Territory.
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Now that the ladies are shedding pounds and losing inches it's time to update their wardrobe with the help of a professional stylist.
Teepee rides a train; Teepee plays pick up sticks.
Moorditj walang, good health is about looking after our bodies every day. It's solid koolangka!
Trees are fun to climb - until you go too high and get stuck! The kids have to rescue the puppets from a tree and together they find other tree games to play. They discover a baby cedar tree that needs a new home and Jason and Jodie have to find the best place for it to grow up big and tall.
Max, Tibo and the kids go on a picnic in British Columbia. When the travelers realize that they are missing a paddle, this forces them to spend the night and the kids have to build shelters. Pam, who took her time to build her shelter, was slower than Julie and Nico, who took their time to play before getting down to work. In the end, Pam made a very comfortable shelter, while Nico and Julie, stuck in time, made a quick shelter that was neither waterproof nor comfortable. The funny adventure taught the children that speed is not always the best attribute. Because sometimes it helps to take your time to make something.
Louis uses both English and Cree words to tell Randy that Emily's son is sick and that he needs to get him a maskohkan (teddy bear) to make him feel better. Randy thinks maskohkan means a bear's fang. Mr. Thompson tells Randy that maskohkan means teddy bear and not a bear's fang. Louis tells Randy that Mrs. Charles need mekisuk (beads). Katie thinks the word means berries. Randy, Katie and Anne go to pick up berries for Mrs. Charles. When they arrive at Mrs. Charles' house they learn that the word for berries is menisu not mekisuk which means beads.
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.
When Wapos Bay is rated the fattest community in Canada, Raven and Jacob make it their mission to slim down their people. Meanwhile Talon, T-Bear, Devon and Kohkum Mary are stranded on an island due to a plane malfunction and have to work together to get home.
Unable to swap places and return home, Yuma must learn to play bush football, while twin Kyanna adjusts to her volcano-building step-brother, Heath, and discovers Sydney surf can be rough.
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 Lamentin and Pointe-Noire, Guadeloupe, to revisit the "tourments d'amour." For her revisit, she meets with Simeon and Rudy, gluen-free flour producers, as well as a cacao producer, Claude.
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.
The players have been practicing for three straight days and to get the morale and intensity up, NHL rookie and Florida Defenseman Erik Gudbranson joins the boys for a skate. The pace of the camp brings on a few casualties as injuries begin to creep up on the team. John decides to end the practice with a scrimmage that gets the players excited to finally see some game action.
Gracey is commissioned by Sweat RX to cover the Western Classic CrossFit event. Gracey will focus on CrossFit Games athlete, Alex Parker. Over 100 competitors and double the amount of spectators are expected. It will be tight and Gracey will need to navigate her way around the box to get her shots.
Now that the ladies are shedding pounds and losing inches it's time to update their wardrobe with the help of a professional stylist.
On this episode, Juaquin begins construction on a boy's fancy apron.
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.
After a formal welcome at Smither's airport, Art and Dan are guided on a hunt by a Wetsuweten elder. Their aspirations to bag an elk are spoiled by a pair of cheeky black bears. All is not lost though thanks to a communal outpouring of generosity and Art's performance at an Aboriginal Day Festival. Micisok!
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.
URBAN REZ explores the controversial legacy and modern-day repercussions of the Urban Relocation Program (1952-1973), the greatest voluntary upheaval of Native Americans during the 20th century. During the documentary, dozens of American Indians representing tribal groups from across the West recall their first-hand experiences with relocation, including the early hardships, struggles with isolation, and racism. Interviewees also speak about the challenges of maintaining one's own tribal traditions - from language to hunting - while assimilating into the larger society. Actor, musician, and Oglala Lakota member Moses brings plenty of narrates of this insightful film about this seldom-told chapter in American history.
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.
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Constable Len Isaac and Sergeant Dale Austinson respond to a domestic, and describe how alcohol fuels violence. Dwayne Honeyman shares how stress and exhaustion led him to temporarily leave the Stl'atl'imx Tribal Police Service. And an officer faces real frustration when he struggles to arrest a violent and intoxicated man while members of the public record the incident with their cell phones.
LaRonge, Saskatchewan is home to one of the largest remote response EMT units in Canada. Jody and Kristen know the risks all too well. With all the tragedy they encounter, there also comes much joy. Experience the phenomenal perseverance these women demonstrate on a daily basis.
Tara and Zoe discover the body of a young girl in an area of the forest that Tara later discovers is a sacred site with dangerous supernatural powers. When Tara learns Simon Blackhorse sent the girl there for a traditional berry fast, she is determined to prove he is responsible for her death. Bob sets his sights on a more convenient suspect, a sex offender who just happens to be visiting Rabbit Fall.
Art and Dan pay a visit to a Gitxsan fisherwoman in Hazelton, BC. They ride along with her as she checks the nets that feed hundreds of families in her community. Art and Dan are lucky enough to be gifted a Chinook and granted the honor of cooking at K'San historical village. Miciskok!
"Spiral of Fire" takes author LeAnne Howe (Choctaw) to the North Carolina homeland of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to discover how their fusion of tourism, community, and cultural preservation is the key to the tribe's health in the 21st century. Along the way Howe seeks to reconcile her own identity as the daughter of a Cherokee father she never knew. Howe's journey of discovery leads her to one of the most beautiful places in America where Cherokees manage their own schools, hospitals, cable company, tourist attractions and multi-million dollar casino. Yet, despite these successes, diabetes is rampant, racism erodes self-confidence, and greed threatens to divide the community. "Spiral of Fire" reveals the forces at work to restore health to the tribe. Forces such as that of Joyce Dugan, former school superintendent and principal chief, who has been instrumental in cultural preservation efforts by leading the tribe to purchase Kituwah, the original "mother" town of the Cherokee. And Corey Blankenship,a student who led a campaign to convince legislators to pass a bill to allow a land exchange with the National Park Service that will provide a site for badly needed new schools. As well as James "Bo" Taylor, a young father who leads the movement to revitalize the Cherokee language, and traditional songs, dances and spirituality. Howe learns that a strong sense of community binds the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Their strong sense of identity comes from knowing their history, strengths and weaknesses, and coming to terms with them. This realization encourages Howe's desire to accept her Cherokee identity and to forgive an absent father.
Medicine Woman, interweaves the lives of Native American women healers of today with the story of America's first Native doctor, Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915). The one-hour PBS documentary produced by and about women, features historic and contemporary profiles of female healers, starting with Susan La Flesche Picotte (1865-1915) of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.